Charli XCX Says She ‘Wasn’t Even at the Grammys’ Radar’ Earlier than ‘Brat’

Charli XCX is driving the Brat wave all of the strategy to this yr’s Grammys, the place she’s nominated for seven awards — and she or he’s totally conscious that she owes all of it to the album that made her a family identify.

In a W Mag duvet tale printed Thursday (Jan. 30), the pop superstar mirrored on choosing up nods in 2025 for album of the yr and absolute best dance/digital album for Brat, report of the yr and absolute best tune video for “360,” absolute best pop solo efficiency for “Apple,” absolute best dance pop recording for “Von Dutch” and absolute best pop duo/team efficiency for the Billie Eilish remix of “Bet.” The honors come a complete decade after Charli used to be final identified via the Recording Academy, choosing up her first two Grammy nominations in 2015 for her hit Iggy Azalea collaboration, “Fancy”; report of the yr in the end went to Sam Smith’s “Keep With Me” that yr, whilst absolute best pop/duo went to A Nice Large Global and Christina Aguilera’s “Say One thing.”

“Let’s be actual,” Charli instructed the e-newsletter. “I wasn’t even at the Grammys’ radar final yr, so it’s now not one thing I ever anticipated.”

Now, the “Increase Clap” singer is among the academy’s second-most nominated artists of 2025, tying with Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Publish Malone with seven nods apiece. Best Beyoncé is up for extra awards going into the Feb. 2 rite, scoring 11 nominations for her Cowboy Carter generation.

Due to a stacked yr of father releases in 2024, the contest at this yr’s awards is especially contentious — Bey, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Chippie, Chappell Roan and extra are all competing with Charli within the AOTY class on my own — however the “Sympathy Is a Knife” artist says she’s simply fascinated by having a great time on the match. “Anyplace I’m turns into a laugh anyway, so I’m certain I’ll determine it out,” she quipped to W.

“My dream state of affairs can be getting a plus-10 so I may deliver all my absolute best pals,” Charli added. “Realistically, I’ll most certainly get a plus-one. Possibly Troye [Sivan] and I will proportion and make it a plus-two.”

See Charli at the duvet of W under.