Nominations Revealed for “The 68th Annual Grammy Awards,” A Celebration of a Landmark Year in Music [VIDEO]

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Nominees for THE 68TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS have been announced and topping the list of nominees are Kendrick Lamar (9), Cirkut (7), Jack Antonoff (7), Lady Gaga (7), Bad Bunny (6), Leon Thomas (6), Sabrina Carpenter (6), Serban Ghenea (6), Andrew Watt (5), Clipse (5), Doechii (5), Sounwave (5), SZA (5), Turnstile (5) and Tyler, The Creator (5). As the only peer-voted music award, the GRAMMY Awards® are selected by the Recording Academy®’s voting membership body of music makers who represent all genres and creative disciplines, including recording artists, songwriters, composers, producers, mixers, and engineers. The nominees were announced via a livestream event on live.GRAMMY.com and YouTube.

The GRAMMY Awards will return to Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena on Sunday, February 1, 2026 (8:00-11:30 PM, live ET/5:00-8:30 PM, live PT) and will broadcast live on the CBS Television Network and streaming on Paramount+*.

“The GRAMMY Awards are our opportunity to honor the people who make this community so vibrant, and this year’s nominees remind us of the incredible talent that is driving music forward,” said Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy. “From emerging talent to influential icons, these nominees reflect today’s broad and diverse musical landscape, and I am excited to celebrate them in the coming weeks ahead and on Music’s Biggest Night®.”

This year’s eligibility period includes recordings released between August 31, 2024-August 30, 2025. The final round of GRAMMY voting, which will determine GRAMMY winners, will take place December 12, 2025-January 5, 2026.

Prior to the telecast, the GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony® will be held at the Peacock Theater at 12:30 PM, PT, and will be streamed live on live.GRAMMY.com and the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel.

The 2026 GRAMMY Awards will be produced by Fulwell Entertainment for the Recording Academy. Ben Winston, Raj Kapoor, and Jesse Collins are executive producers.

The following is a sampling of nominations from THE GRAMMY AWARDS’ 12 fields and 95 categories. For a complete nominations list, visit GRAMMY.com. GRAMMY season media assets are available here. Follow “Recording Academy/GRAMMYS” on Instagram, Threads, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn and use #GRAMMYS to join the conversation.

Record Of The Year
DtMF – Bad Bunny
Manchild – Sabrina Carpenter
Anxiety – Doechii
WILDFLOWER – Billie Eilish
Abracadabra – Lady Gaga
luther – Kendrick Lamar With SZA
The Subway – Chappell Roan
APT. – ROSÉ, Bruno Mars

Album Of The Year
DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS – Bad Bunny
SWAG – Justin Bieber
Man’s Best Friend – Sabrina Carpenter
Let God Sort Em Out – Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
MayHEM – Lady Gaga
GNX – Kendrick Lamar
MUTT – Leon Thomas
CHROMAKOPIA – Tyler, The Creator

Song Of The Year
Abracadabra – Lady Gaga, Henry Walter & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
Anxiety – Jaylah Hickmon, songwriter (Doechii)
APT. – Amy Allen, Christopher Brody Brown, Rogét Chahayed, Omer Fedi, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Chae Young Park, Theron Thomas & Henry Walter, songwriters (ROSÉ, Bruno Mars)
DtMF – Marco Daniel Borrero, Scott Dittrich, Benjamin Falik, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, Hugo René Sención Sanabria, Tyler Thomas Spry & Roberto José Rosado Torres, songwriters (Bad Bunny)
Golden [From KPop Demon Hunters”]” – EJAE & Mark Sonnenblick, songwriters (HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI)
luther – Jack Antonoff, Roshwita Larisha Bacha, Matthew Bernard, Scott Bridgeway, Sam Dew, Ink, Kendrick Lamar, Solána Rowe, Mark Anthony Spears & Kamasi Washington, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar With SZA)
Manchild – Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter, songwriters (Sabrina Carpenter)
WILDFLOWER – Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)

Best New Artist
Olivia Dean
KATSEYE
The Marias
Addison Rae
sombr
Leon Thomas
Alex Warren
Lola Young

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Dan Auerbach
Cirkut
Dijon
Blake Mills
Sounwave

Songwriter Of The Year, Non-Classical
Amy Allen
Edgar Barrera
Jessie Jo Dillon
Tobias Jesso Jr.
Laura Veltz

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Defying Gravity – Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande
Golden [From KPop Demon Hunters”]” – HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI
Gabriela – KATSEYE
APT. – ROSÉ, Bruno Mars
30 for 30 – SZA With Kendrick Lamar

Best Pop Vocal Album
SWAG – Justin Bieber
Man’s Best Friend – Sabrina Carpenter
Something Beautiful – Miley Cyrus
MAYHEM – Lady Gaga
I’ve Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2) – Teddy Swims

Best Dance Pop Recording
Bluest Flame – Selena Gomez & benny blanco
Abracadabra – Lady Gaga
Midnight Sun – Zara Larsson
Just Keep Watching (From F1® The Movie”)” – Tate McRae
Illegal – PinkPantheress

Best Rock Song
As Alive as You Need Me to Be – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, songwriters (Nine Inch Nails)
Caramel – Vessel1 & Vessel2, songwriters (Sleep Token)
Glum – Daniel James & Hayley Williams, songwriters (Hayley Williams)
NEVER ENOUGH – Daniel Fang, Franz Lyons, Pat McCrory, Meg Mills & Brendan Yates, songwriters (Turnstile)
Zombie – Dominic Harrison & Matt Schwartz, songwriters (YUNGBLUD)

Best Alternative Music Album
SABLE, fABLE – Bon Iver
Songs Of A Lost World – The Cure
DON’T TAP THE GLASS – Tyler, The Creator
moisturizer – Wet Leg
Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party – Hayley Williams

Best R&B Performance
YUKON – Justin Bieber
It Depends – Chris Brown Featuring Bryson Tiller
Folded – Kehlani
MUTT (Live From NPR’s Tiny Desk) – Leon Thomas
Heart Of A Woman – Summer Walker

Best Rap Album
Let God Sort Em Out – Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
GLORIOUS – GloRilla
God Does Like Ugly – JID
GNX – Kendrick Lamar
CHROMAKOPIA – Tyler, The Creator

Best Country Solo Performance
Nose On The Grindstone – Tyler Childers
Good News – Shaboozey
Bad As I Used Ro Be [From F1® The Movie”]” – Chris Stapleton
I Never Lie – Zach Top
Somewhere Over Laredo – Lainey Wilson

Best Americana Album
BIG MONEY – Jon Batiste
Bloom – Larkin Poe
Last Leaf On The Tree – Willie Nelson
So Long Little Miss Sunshine – Molly Tuttle
Middle – Jesse Welles

Best Latin Pop Album
Cosa Nuestra – Rauw Alejandro
BOGOTÁ (DELUXE) – Andrés Cepeda
Tropicoqueta – KAROL G
Cancionera – Natalia Lafourcade
¿Y ahora qué? – Alejandro Sanz

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film And Television)
How To Train Your Dragon – John Powell, composer
Severance: Season 2 – Theodore Shapiro, composer
Sinners – Ludwig Göransson, composer
Wicked – John Powell & Stephen Schwartz, composers
The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers, composer

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