And the Grammy goes to: Chappell Roan! The pop superstar has won Best New Artist at the 67th Grammy Awards, marking her first-ever Grammy. She was nominated alongside Benson Boone, Sabrina Carpenter, Doechii, Khruangbin, Raye, Shaboozey, and Teddy Swims.
Roan accepted the award after a series of performances that spotlit this year's Best New Artist contenders: Roan did "Pink Pony Club," and Carpenter did "Espresso" with "Please Please Please." Meanwhile Boone, Doechii, Swims, Shaboozey, and Raye took the stage for medley performances of their respective songs "Beautiful Things," "Catfish," "Denial Is A River," "Lose Control," "A Bar Song (Tipsy)," and "Oscar Winning Tears."
Roan, who's also still up for Song Of The Year and Record Of The Year for "Good Luck, Babe!" and Album Of The Year for The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess, gave an emotional acceptance speech bringing attention to her experience being mistreated by her former record label.
“Thank you to my fellow nominees whose music got me through this past year," Roan said. "Brat was the best night of my life this year. My hat's gonna fall, it's gonna be okay. Thank you all who listened to get me here today and Dan and Island Records, Amusement Records, my friends, and my family and above all my papa Chappell who I named myself after. I told myself if I ever won a Grammy and I got to stand up here in front of the most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels and the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists, would offer a livable wage and health care, especially to developing artists. Because I got signed so young, I got signed as a minor and when I got dropped, I had zero job experience under my belt and like most people I had a difficult time finding a job in the pandemic and could not afford health insurance. It was so devastating to feel so committed to my art and feel so betrayed by the system and so dehumanized to to not have help. And if my label would have prioritized artists' health I could have been provided care by a company I was giving everything to. So record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection. Labels we got you, but do you got us? Thank you."
Watch below.
🎥| Chappell Roan accepting her first ever Grammy award!
— She ends off her speech demanding artists receive livable wages with, "labels we got you, but do you got us?” pic.twitter.com/93tyWl86f3
— CRN (@ChappellRoanNow) February 3, 2025
Chappell Roan could win her first Grammy today, with six nominations including the Big Four categories. Here’s 14-year-old Kayleigh Amstutz sharing her dream of winning a Grammy at Springfield’s Got Talent in 2012. “I’ll do whatever it takes to get it.”
— Stereogum (@stereogum.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
AP interviewers cut off Babyface to interview Chappell Roan instead at the #GRAMMYs red carpet. https://t.co/nefWcJC4hT
— Pop Base (@PopBase) February 2, 2025
