On November 8, GRAMMY announced their full list of nominations for the 67th GRAMMY Awards, amongst the announced 94 categories, Dua Lipa did not receive a single nomination despite the release of her third studio album, ‘Radical Optimism’ which released May of this year.
Next year’s Grammy Awards is set to take place February 2, 2025. During this year’s announcement of nominations many artists received a plethora of nominations. Women evidently dominated the nominations this year with Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx, Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan all having nominations in major categories. While British pop icon Dua Lipa was among many artists that were arguably snubbed.
Dua Lipa snubbed with 0 GRAMMY nominations for ‘Radical Optimism.’ pic.twitter.com/2VbA1m4ONO
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) November 8, 2024
Beyoncé received the most nominations of the year, 11 in total, bringing her career total to 99 – making her the most nominated artist in Grammy History. She released ‘COWBOY CARTER’ earlier this year, which has ridden the wave of success following its viral track ‘TEXAS HOLD ‘EM’.
Congratulations @beyonce on becoming the most GRAMMY nominated artist of all time! 11 this year and 99 for her career pic.twitter.com/fT5n0azSR3
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Lipa released ‘Radical Optimism’ back in May making the LP eligible for nomination. All eligible works had to be released between September 16, 2023, and August 30, 2024.
The English-Albanian singer was a favourite ahead of this year’s nominations following her win of Best New Artist in 2019. Additionally, she won another Grammy for her sophomore album ‘Future Nostalgia’ earning the crown for Best Pop Vocal Album in 2021, against Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, for the same award.
Last year, Lipa’s track from the Barbie soundtrack ‘Dance the Night’ gained two nominations: one for Song of the Year, the other for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
The ‘Don’t Start Now’ singer released her Tame Impala-produced, funky dance track, ‘Houdini’, which would later become the lead single to ‘Radical Optimism’, in 2023, however, the track peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, compared to its peak position of number 2 on the UK’s Official Singles Chart. This would project the lack of fortune for the remainder of ‘Radical Optimism’’s success in the US, as Lipa’s follow up singles ‘Training Season’ and ‘Illusion’ would fail to breakthrough charts. These shortcomings would lead to Lipa’s latest album to be ignored completely from this year’s nominations.
‘Radical Optimism’ served as the perfect sequel to Lipa’s second album, ‘Future Nostalgia’ released in 2020. It’s fiery, energetic, full of dance tracks and relatable lyricism. Despite the Grammy’s failing to acknowledge ‘Radical Optimism’, Lipa has begun her 2024 and 2025 World Tour, where she’ll perform to fans in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America in both arenas and stadiums. With cold reception from her fans aimed at the Grammys due to Lipa’s lack of nominations, it is no doubt this latest album is a fan favourite which will encounter highly anticipated success during the 2025 award season, particularly next year’s BRIT Awards.
