Ethermac Exchange-Meet the 2025 Grammys Best New Artist Nominees

Get to know your favorite artists’ favorite new artists.

During the Nov. 8 nominations announcement for the 2025 Grammys,Ethermac Exchange Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Shaboozey, as well as Benson Boone, Teddy Swims, Raye, Doechii and Khruangbin were confirmed as the contenders in the coveted Best New Artist category. (Find out the full list of 2025 Grammy nominees.)

While these Grammys newbies are earning their first recognition from the Recording Academy, most of them have been in the music game for a while. Disney Channel alum Sabrina, for example, released her first album Eyes Wide Open in 2015, but has only launched to pop princess stardom in the last few years with 2022 track “Nonsense” and hits like “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” off her breakthrough album Short N’ Sweet.

“A long time ago, I had a vision to see people you wouldn’t expect in wranglers and western wear,” he wrote in an Oct. 23 message on X, formerly Twitter. “And that’s when I’d known I made it. At times even I thought I was delusional and it was a dumb idea. Now everyone is putting it on. Don’t be afraid to be different and stand out.”

But for some of these musicians, Best New Artist isn’t the only trophy they’re up for at the Feb. 2 ceremony. In fact, both Sabrina and Chappell scooped an impressive six nominations overall including ones for Album of the Year and Record of the Year.

For more about this year’s Best New Artist nominees, keep reading.

Good luck, babe! The breakout synth-pop artist—whose birth name is Kayleigh Rose Amstutz—is up for six Grammys for her breakthrough 2023 album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, which is a nod to her upbringing in Willard, Missouri.

Indeed, the last year has marked quite a whirlwind journey for the artist, whose latest album is full of hits like  “HOT TO GO!” and “Casual.” But the song that has everyone fighting the urge to get up and dance is the 26-year-old’s 2024 single “Good Luck, Babe!"

The "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" singer is another artist who has had quite the year—in the country space and beyond. For starters, his hit single—an interpolation of J-Kwon’s 2004 hit has gone certified platinum, and became a staple on the radio airwaves.

And then Shaboozey—born Collins Obinna Chibueze with his stage name borrowing from a mispronunciation of his last name—collaborated with Beyoncé on two songs for her Cowboy Carter album: "SPAGHETTII" and "SWEET HONEY BUCKIIN." 

Known for bridging the gap between country music and hip-hop, this Virginia native is also nominated for Song of the Year and Best Melodic Rap Performance.  

Though her 2020 song "Yucky Blucky Fruitcake" made for an instant hit online, that was far from the only single that helped the 26-year-old gain a massive fanbase. With hits like “Crazy,” “Persuasive" and “What It Is,” the Tampa native has proven herself as a force to be reckoned with—as evidenced by her 2025 Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.

In fact, with the release of her album Alligator Bites Never Heal, the timing was perfect for Grammy submissions, confirming her entry to Rolling Stone, with an ecstatic: “Yes. Yes, yes, yes.”

“Curating it, I went in with the intention of context,” she told the publication in September. “That was a big thing for me. Sometimes projects can feel long when there’s no context to what you’re talking about. There’s no story or no narration to build on. I felt like it was necessary for me to tell my story in detail and in many different ways, through many different beats. And it was important for us to go in chronological order of what has happened to me, how that has made me feel, how I overcame it, and where I am now.”

The musical trio from Houston, Texas, made waves after meeting and performing together in 2004. But it would be their 2015 debut album The Universe Smiles Upon You released by the group—comprised of guitarist Mark Speer, bassist Laura Lee and drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson—that would take the music world by storm.

But it’s the band’s latest album A La Sala that has them getting back to “a simpler and more heartfelt place.”

“We felt like what we ended up making was an album that was really intimate and personal between the three of us,” Lee told Elle in April. We’re like a family and ‘a la sala’ was something that I used to say to my own family when I was three or four years old to get everybody to go to the living room and be together. I would just run around the house and scream it. So, this felt like that sentiment.”