Grammys 2026: Nominations in all major categories

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Record of the year

Bad Bunny – DtMF
Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
Doechii – Anxiety
Billie Eilish – Wild Flower
Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
Kendrick Lamar with SZA – Luther
Chapelle Rhone – Subway
ROSE & BRUNO MARS – APT.

Song of the year

Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
Doechii – Anxiety
ROSE & BRUNO MARS – APT.
Bad Bunny – DtMF
Huntr/x – Golden
Kendrick Lamar with SZA – Luther
Sabrina Carpenter -Manchild
Billie Eilish – Wild Flower

Album of the year

Bad Bunny – I need to take more photos
Justin Bieber – Swag
Sabrina Carpenter – Man’s best friend
Clips – Let’s Got Sort ‘Em Out
Lady Gaga – Mayhem
Kendrick Lamar – GNX
Leon Thomas – Math
Tyler, Creator – Chromacopia

Olivia Dean is one of two UK nominees for Best New Artist, along with Lola Young.
Olivia Dean is one of two UK nominees for Best New Artist, along with Lola Young. Photograph: Aimee Todd/The Guardian

Best New Artist

Olivia Dean
Catseye
The Marias
Addison Ray
the shadow
Leon Thomas
Alex Warren
Lola Young

Best Pop Solo Performance

Justin Bieber – Daisies
Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
Lady Gaga – Disease
Chapelle Rhone – Subway
Lola Young – Atrocious

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande – Defy Gravity
Huntr/x – Golden
Katse – Gabriela
ROSE & BRUNO MARS – APT.
SZA Kendrick Lamar – 30 out of 30

Best Pop Vocal Album

Justin Bieber – Swag
Sabrina Carpenter – Man’s best friend
Miley Cyrus – Something Beautiful
Lady Gaga – Mayhem
Teddy Swims – I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2)

Best Dance/Electronic Recording

Disclosure & Anderson Pak – No cap
Fred Again, Skepta & PlayboyMax – Victory Lap
Kaitranada – Space Invader
Skrillex – Voltage
Tame Impala – End of Summer

Best Dance Pop Recording

Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco – Bluest Flame
Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
Zara Larsson – Midnight Sun
Tate McRae – Stay tuned
PinkPantheress – Illegal

FKA Twigs, nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
FKA Twigs, nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album. Photo: Jim Dyson/Getty Images

Best Dance/Electronic Album

FKA Twigs – Usexua
Fred Again – Ten Days
PinkPantheress – Fancy That
Rüfüs Du Sol – Inhale/Exhale
Skrillex – FU Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! <3

Best rock show ever

Amil and Sniffers – You Shouldn’t Be Doing
Linkin Park – The Emptiness Machine
Turnstile – never enough
Hayley Williams – Mirtazapine
Yungblud – Changes (live from Villa Park, restart)

DREAM THEATER – NIGHT TERROR
Demon – Lachryma
Sleep Token – Emergence
Spiritbox – Soft Spine
Turnstile – Birds

Best Rock Album

Deftones – Private Music
Haim – I quit
Linkin Park – From Zero
Turnstile – never enough
Yungblud – Idols

Best Alternative Music Performance

Bon Iver – All Peaceful Love
Cure – isolation
Turnstile – Seen Stars
Where Leg – The Supreme
Hayley Williams – Parachute

Best Alternative Music Album

Bon Iver – Sable, fable
The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
Tyler, the Creator – Don’t touch the glass
Wet Leg – Moisturizer
Hayley Williams – Ego Death at the Bachelorette Party

Best R&B Performance

Justin Bieber – UConn
Chris Brown – It Depends (feat. Bryson Tiller)
Kehlani – Fold
Leon Thomas – Math
Summer Walker – A Woman’s Heart

Leon Thomas, nominated six times.
Leon Thomas, nominated six times. Photograph: Marcus Ingram/Getty Images

Best R&B Album

Givon – Beloved
Coco Jones – Why not more?
Ledisi – The Crown
Teyana Taylor – Escape Room
Leon Thomas – Math

Best Rap Performance

Cardi B – Outside
Clips – Chains & Whips (feat. Kendrick Lamar & Pharrell Williams)
Doechii – Anxiety
Kendrick Lamar – TV Off (feat. Lefty Gunplay)
Tyler, The Creator – Darling, I (feat. Tejo Touchdown)

Best Rap Album

Clip – Let God sort it out
Glorilla – Glorious
JID – God loves ugly
Kendrick Lamar – GNX
Tyler, Creator – Chromacopia

Best Jazz Show

Lakesia Benjamin – Noble Rise (ft Emmanuel Wilkins & Mark Whitfield)
Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade – Windows (Live)
Samara Joy – Peace of mind / Dreams come true
Michael Mayo – Four
Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keon Harold & Rachel Eckroth – All Stars Lead To You (Live)

Best Domestic Solo Performance

Tyler Childers – Nose on the Grindstone
Shabuji – Good news
Chris Stapleton – As bad as I used to be
Jack Tapa – I never lie
Lainey Wilson – Somewhere Over Laredo

Best Traditional Country Album

Charlie Crockett – A Dollar a Day
Lucas Nelson – American Romance
Willie Nelson – Oh What A Beautiful World
Margo Price – Hard Headed Woman
Jack Top – Not in it for my health

Best Contemporary Country Album

Kelsea Ballerini – Models
Tyler Childers – Snipe Hunter
Eric Church – Evangeline vs the Machine
Jelly Roll – Beautifully crumbled
Miranda Lambert – Postcards from Texas

Bad Bunny has also been nominated six times.
Bad Bunny has also been nominated six times. Photo: Ivan Agostini/Invision/AP

The best world music show ever

Bad Bunny – EoO
Ciro Hurtado – Singing on the Road
Angelique Kidzo – Jerusalem
Yeisy Rojas – So what about immigrants?
Shakti – Srini Kal (Live)
Anoushka Shankar – Daybreak (feat. Alam Khan & Sarathi Korwar)

Songwriter of the Year

Amy Allen
Edgar Barrera
Jessie Joe Dillon
Tobias Jesso Jr
Laura Weltz

Producer of the year

and Auerbach
the circus
Dijon
Blake Mills
Subwave

Best Music Video

Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
Clip – so be it
Doechii – Anxiety
Well go – love
Sade – Young Lion

Best Orchestral Performance

Michael Repper, conductor (National Philharmonic) – Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L’Overture; Ballade Op 4; 24 Suites from Negro Melodies
Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra) – Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphony
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela) – Ravel: Bolero, M 81
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra) – Still & Bonds
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony) – Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

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