Grammy 2025 Is Echoing Female Dominance, as This Wicked Album of the Year Stat Makes It to Social Media

Published 11/15/2024, 11:24 PM EST

The music industry has been more of a rat race than ever this year as artists new and old stepped down to deliver their masterpieces. From prominent artists dropping surprise new albums instead of expected re-releases to other artists finally finding the right mic after years in the shadow, it all happened in the women's arena. Given all that it has been witness to, it did not come as a surprise that the Album of the Year was dominated by female artists. However, the stats just provided a real picture of just what is up against who.

While everyone is yet to drop their Spotify wrapped and pen down an emotional note for their most streamed artist, a user turned the tables abruptly into a fandom fight as they put side to side the most streamed albums of the Album of the Year nominees with the total number of streams. Although female dominated, fans could not help but gasp at the large gap between the numbers of streams accumulated by the nominated artists.

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This year saw the release of 'The Tortured Poets Department' alongside other big runners like 'Cowboy Carter', 'Hit Me Hard and Soft', and 'Eternal Sunshine'. While the tracks from these albums were all over social media, just how much of an impact they have had was visible only when the stats were taken into account.

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Used to hearing that their artist of choice is topping a certain chart, the Internet was in absolute shock at just the amount of numbers garnered in streams.

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That Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish were fighting nail and tooth for the highest rank on the charts is no news owing to the unending fan wars that ensued. However, just how much traffic that these fan wars between Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Billie Eilish, and Ariana Grande had in terms of traffic shocked the audience.

It was not just how clearly women dominated the music arena that came as a surprise but also why André 3000 was nominated with 35 Million streams when all the female artists were up in billions.

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The reactions were also intense owing to what fans are calling the biggest Grammy snub as Ariana Grande's comeback album did not receive a nomination in the Album of the Year arena. Regardless. the stats only further proved just how much women rocked the music scene this year.

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What do you think about the Spotify stats of the Grammy nominated albums? Let us know in the comments below.

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Aliza Siddiqui

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Aliza Siddiqui, a seasoned entertainment journalist and primary editor at Netflix Junkie, discovered her passion for storytelling through Anne Hathaway's iconic performance in Princess Diaries. Her love for film was further solidified by the thought-provoking climax of Don't Look Up, which left her in awe of its ability to balance humor and commentary, much like The Dictator and Cunk on Earth, which impressed her with their loud yet subtle haywire references. With a background in writing over a thousand articles at Otakukart, Aliza brings her unique voice and style to her editorial role, where she incorporates her idiosyncratic wit with engaging content.

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