Most artists spend a lifetime trying to collect the kind of accolades that Chappell Roan has stacked up in barely two years. A Grammy. Multiple BRIT Awards. The BBC Sound of 2025. Number one on the Billboard Artist 100. It reads like a checklist someone wrote before the career even started. But what makes the Chappell Roan awards story genuinely fascinating is not the list itself.
It is how she got there, what she said when she arrived, and the fact that every single achievement came after the music industry had already given up on her.
Here is every major nomination, award, and milestone, from the category that made history to the speech that brought a room full of executives to their feet.
Six Grammy Nominations at the 2025 Ceremony: A Full Breakdown
When the 67th Grammy nominations were announced in November 2024, Chappell Roan’s name appeared six times. For an artist who had been dropped from a label four years earlier and was working at a donut shop shortly after, the moment was staggering.
Chappell Roan was nominated for the first time in 2025 and was up for six awards: Record of the Year for “Good Luck, Babe!”, Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Song of the Year for “Good Luck, Babe!”, Best New Artist, and Best Pop Solo Performance for “Good Luck, Babe!”
That is four out of the five most coveted categories in music all at once. Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan became the fourteenth and fifteenth artists in history to be nominated in all four of the major general categories, which are Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist. That is the kind of company that includes the most celebrated artists ever to walk into a Grammy ceremony.
Her producer, Dan Nigro also won Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) at the Premiere Ceremony earlier that day. It was not just Roan’s night. It was a full sweep for the team; she rebuilt her career from the ground up.
The competition was fierce in every single category she entered. She was up against Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and Doechii across the various fields. Beyoncé led all artists with eleven nominations, Charli XCX and Post Malone had eight each, and Kendrick Lamar and Billie Eilish had seven each. In that company, landing six nominations as a first-time nominee was not just a milestone. It was a statement.
Winning Best New Artist and What She Said in Her Acceptance Speech
On February 2, 2025, Chappell Roan won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. And then she did something very few winners ever do with that kind of platform. She used it.
Chappell Roan took home Best New Artist at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. She beat out Benson Boone, Sabrina Carpenter, Khruangbin, Raye, Shaboozey, Doechii, and Teddy Swims to win the award.
She brought a notebook to the stage. She had been planning what to say for a long time. “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 healthcare, especially to developing artists,” she said.
She made it personal. “I got signed so young, I got signed as a minor. When I got dropped, I had zero job experience under my belt, and like most people, I had quite a difficult time finding a job in the pandemic and could not afford insurance.”
And she closed with a line that the music industry will be discussing for years. “Labels, we got you, but do you got us?”
The crowd gave her a standing ovation. She walked offstage and, within days, donated $25,000 to Backline, a nonprofit connecting music industry workers with mental health resources. Because when she made demands from that stage, she backed them up with action.
Roan is the eighth consecutive female artist to win the Best New Artist trophy, following Victoria Monét, Samara Joy, Olivia Rodrigo, and Megan Thee Stallion in the four years prior.
MTV VMA for Best New Artist and Her Dedication to Queer Youth
Before the Grammys, there was the MTV VMAs. And what happened on that stage on September 11, 2024, at UBS Arena in New York is arguably just as defining for who Chappell Roan is as any music award she has ever received.
Roan won the career-defining VMA for Best New Artist, joining legendary past recipients including Nirvana, Eminem, Olivia Rodrigo, and Billie Eilish.
She walked onstage in armor, having just performed “Good Luck, Babe!” in a full medieval castle set with a flaming crossbow. Then she pulled out her diary. “I dedicate this to all the drag artists who inspire me, and I dedicate this to queer and trans people who fuel pop,” Roan said. “To the gays who dedicate my songs to someone they love or hate.”
She then turned her speech directly toward the children watching. “And for all the queer kids in the Midwest watching right now, I see you, I understand you because I’m one of you. And don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t be exactly who you want to be.”
The reaction was immediate and significant. GLAAD VP of Communications and Talent Anthony Allen Ramos said: “Chappell Roan is one of today’s most talented and adored music stars and her dedication of her Best New Artist win at the MTV Video Music Awards to drag artists, queer and trans people, namely queer youth in the Midwest, is a crucial moment as it puts our community front and center on a global stage.”
It is one thing to make music about queer joy. It is another to stand on one of the most-watched stages in pop music and aim that message directly at the kids who need to hear it most.
BBC Sound of 2025 and No. 1 on Billboard Artist 100 in October 2024
The accolades were not limited to live ceremonies. By late 2024 and early 2025, the data and the industry experts were all saying the same thing at the same time.
In October 2024, she reached number one for the first time on the Billboard Artist 100, coinciding with the biggest sales week ever of her debut album. An album released in September 2023 is hitting its biggest sales week over a year later. That is a phenomenon with almost no modern equivalent.
Then came the BBC. Chappell Roan was chosen as the winner of the BBC Sound of 2025 by a panel of more than 180 music industry figures and artists, including global superstars Dua Lipa and Elton John.
The BBC Sound of award is an annual celebration of rising stars in the music industry, spotlighting artists who are expected to make a major impact in the coming year. Introduced in 2003, previous recipients, including Adele, Sam Smith, and HAIM, have gone on to enjoy global success, cementing the award as a key milestone for emerging artists.
BBC Radio 1 DJ Jack Saunders said, “No one deserves this accolade more than Chappell Roan.” The panel included Elton John and Dua Lipa voting in her favor. The girl from Willard, Missouri, had the attention of everyone now.
BRIT Award for International Song of the Year for “Good Luck, Babe!”
If the American awards told one part of the story, the BRIT Awards told another. They confirmed that the Chappell Roan wave was not a US-only phenomenon. It was genuinely global.
In 2025, Chappell Roan scooped two BRIT Awards: International Artist and Song of the Year.
In the International Artist category, she won over Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, and Sabrina Carpenter. In the International Song category, “Good Luck, Babe!” took the award over “Beautiful Things” by Benson Boone, “Birds of a Feather” by Billie Eilish, “Texas Hold ‘Em” by Beyoncé, “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter, and “Fortnight” by Taylor Swift.
That is a field that reads like the entire Billboard Hot 100 condensed into a single category. Winning both in one night was not a lucky break. It was a referendum on just how deeply “Good Luck, Babe!” had burrowed into the global cultural conversation over the previous twelve months.
The UK had already made that clear through charts. Following a steady 17-week climb on the Official Albums Chart boosted by a vinyl release, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess landed at number one on August 9, 2024, cementing a breakthrough year. Official Charts confirmed it to be the UK’s biggest debut album of 2024 and the best-selling debut album on vinyl in 2024.
“The Subway” Grammy Nominations at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards
The 2025 Grammy win could have been the peak. Instead, it became a launching pad. At the 68th Annual Grammy Awards held on February 1, 2026, Chappell Roan returned to the conversation with a brand new song.
On July 31, 2025, Roan released “The Subway,” more than a year after it first premiered at her 2024 Governor’s Ball set. The song was later nominated at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards in the categories Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
In the Record of the Year category, “The Subway” competed alongside “DtMF” by Bad Bunny, “Manchild” by Sabrina Carpenter, “Anxiety” by Doechii, “WILDFLOWER” by Billie Eilish, “Abracadabra” by Lady Gaga, and “APT.” by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars.
At the ceremony, Roan presented the Best New Artist award to Olivia Dean, the category she herself had won the year before. She arrived in a custom Mugler ensemble that ignited the internet for all the right reasons, shrugging off the reaction on social media with characteristic ease.
Though “The Subway” did not take home the awards, the sapphic break-up anthem landing nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance confirmed that the Recording Academy was not treating her 2025 win as a one-off story. They were recognizing a consistent artist who keeps delivering at the highest level.
Eight Grammy nominations across two years. A win that came with a standing ovation and a demand for industry change. Two BRIT Awards. The BBC Sound of 2025. Number one on Billboard’s Artist chart. And every single one of those achievements belongs to someone the music industry once let go. That is the Chappell Roan awards story. And it is far from finished.
