Full list of 2026 Grammy Award nominees

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Di Recording Academy don announce di nominees for di 68th Grammy Awards.

Burna Boy, Wizkid, Tyla, dey part of Africans wey dem nominate for di Best African Music Performance category.

Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar lead di nominees for di 2026 Grammy Awards, while K-Pop break into di song of di year category for di first time.

For di second year in a row, Compton rapper Lamar get di most nominations - nine in total - wey include di ogbonge album of di year nod for di sleek, fiery GNX.

Gaga also get seven nominations overall.

Past Grammy winners wey include Sabrina Carpenter, Doechii, Lizzo, Chappell Roan and Sam Smith bin help announce di 2026 nominees during one livestream on Grammy website.

Dis year, di Grammys introduce two new categories wey be – Best Album Cover and Best Traditional Country Album.

Dem change wetin pipo know bifor as di Best Country Album category to Best Contemporary Country Album.

Organisers go announce di winners on Sunday, 1 February 2026 for Los Angeles.

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Full list of 2026 Grammy Award nominees

Song of di year

  • Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
  • Doechii - Anxiety
  • Rosé & Bruno Mars - APT
  • Bad Bunny - DtMF
  • Hunter/x - Golden
  • Kendrick Lamar feat SZA - Luther
  • Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild
  • Billie Eilish - Wildflower

Record of di year

  • Bad Bunny - DtMF
  • Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild
  • Doechii - Anxiety
  • Billie Eilish - Wildflower
  • Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
  • Kendrick Lamar feat SZA - Luther
  • Chappell Roan - The Subway
  • Rosé & Bruno Mars - APT

Album of di year

  • Bad Bunny - Debí Tirar Más Fotos
  • Justin Bieber - Swag
  • Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend
  • Clipse – Let God Sort Em Out
  • Lady Gaga - Mayhem
  • Kendrick Lamar - GNX
  • Leon Thomas – Mutt
  • Tyler, the Creator – Chromakopia

Best new artist

  • Olivia Dean
  • Katseye
  • The Marias
  • Addison Rae
  • Sombr
  • Leon Thomas
  • Alex Warren
  • Lola Young

Songwriter of di year, Non-Classical

  • Amy Allen
  • Edgar Barrera
  • Jessie Jo Dillon
  • Tobias Jesso Jr.
  • Laura Veltz

Producer of di year, Non-Classical

  • Dan Auerbach
  • Cirkut
  • Dijon
  • Blake Mills
  • Sounwave

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 Pop Solo Performance

  • "Daisies" — Justin Bieber
  • "Manchild" — Sabrina Carpenter
  • "Disease" — Lady Gaga
  • "The Subway" — Chappell Roan
  • "Messy" — Lola Young

Best Rock Album

  • Private Music — Deftones
  • I Quit — Haim
  • From Zero — Linkin Park
  • Never Enough — Turnstile
  • Idols — Yungblud

Best Metal Performance

  • "Night Terror" — Dream Theater
  • "Lachryma" — Ghost
  • "Emergence" — Sleep Token
  • "Soft Spine" — Spiritbox
  • "Birds" — Turnstile

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 R&B Album

  • Beloved — Givēon
  • Why Not More? — Coco Jones
  • The Crown — Ledisi
  • Escape Room — Teyana Taylor
  • Mutt — Leon Thomas

Best African Music Performance

  • Love - Burna Boy
  • With You - Davido Featuring Omah Lay
  • Hope & Love - Eddy Kenzo & Mehran Matin
  • Gimme Dat - Ayra Starr Featuring Wizkid
  • PUSH 2 START - Tyla

Best Musical Theatre Album

  • Buena Vista Social Club
  • Death Becomes Her
  • Gypsy
  • Just In Time
  • Maybe Happy Ending

Best Traditional Country Album

  • Dollar A Day - Charley Crockett
  • American Romance - Lukas Nelson
  • Oh What A Beautiful World - Willie Nelson
  • Hard Headed Woman - Margo Price
  • Ain't In It For My Health - Zach Top

Best Contemporary Country Album

  • Patterns - Kelsea Ballerini
  • Snipe Hunter - Tyler Childers
  • Evangeline Vs. The Machine - Eric Church
  • Beautifully Broken - Jelly Roll
  • Postcards From Texas - Miranda Lambert

Best Global Music Album

  • Sounds Of Kumbha - Siddhant Bhatia
  • No Sign of Weakness - Burna Boy
  • Eclairer le monde - Light the World - Youssou N'Dour
  • Mind Explosion - Shakti
  • Chapter III: We Return To Light - Anoushka Shankar Featuring Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar
  • Caetano e Bethânia Ao Vivo - Caetano Veloso And Maria Bethânia

Best Global Music Performance

  • EoO - Bad Bunny
  • Cantando en el Camino - Ciro Hurtado
  • JERUSALEMA - Angélique Kidjo
  • Inmigrante Y Que? - Yeisy Rojas
  • Shrini's Dream - Shakti
  • Daybreak - Anoushka Shankar Featuring Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar

Best Country Solo Performance

  • Nose On The Grindstone - Tyler Childers
  • Good News - Shaboozey
  • Bad As I Used To Be - Chris Stapleton
  • I Never Lie - Zach Top
  • Somewhere Over Laredo - Lainey Wilson

Best Spoken Word Poetry Album

A Hurricane in Heels: Healed People Don't Act Like That (partially recorded live @City Winery & other places) — Queen Sheba

Black Shaman — Marc Marcel

Pages — Omari Hardwick & Anthony Hamilton

Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends at Treepeople — Saul Williams, Carlos Niño & Friends

Words For Days Vol. 1 — Mad Skillz

Best Gospel Performance/Song

  • Do It Again - Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, songwriter
  • Church - Tasha Cobbs Leonard, John Legend; Anthony S. Brown, Brunes Charles, Annatoria Chitapa, Kenneth Leonard, Jr., Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Jonas Myrin, songwriters
  • Still Live - Jonathan McReynolds & Jamal Roberts; Britney Delagraentiss, Jonathan McReynolds, David Lamar Outing III, Orlando Joel Palmer & Terrell Demetrius Wilson, songwriters
  • Amen - Pastor Mike Jr.; Adia Andrews, Michael McClure Jr., David Lamar Outing II & Terrell Anthony Pettus, songwriters
  • Come Jesus Come - Cece Winans Featuring Shirley Caesar

Best Gospel Album

  • Sunny Days - Yolanda Adams
  • Tasha - Tasha Cobbs Leonard
  • Live Breathe Fight - Tamela Mann
  • Only On The Road Live - Tye Tribbett
  • Heart Of Mine - Darrel Walls, PJ Morton

Best Reggae Album

  • Treasure Self Love - Lila Iké
  • Heart & Soul - Vybz Kartel
  • BLXXD & FYAH - Keznamdi
  • From Within - Mortimer
  • No Place Like Home - Jesse Royal

Best Children's Music Album

  • Ageless - 100 Years Young, Joanie Leeds & Joya
  • Buddy's Magic Tree House - Mega Ran
  • Harmony - FYÜTCH & Aura V
  • Herstory - Flor Bromley
  • The Music Of Tori And The Muses - Tori Amos

Best Comedy Album

  • Drop Dead Years - Bill Burr
  • PostMortem - Sarah Silverman
  • Single Lady, Ali Wong
  • What Had Happened Was - Jamie Foxx
  • Your Friend - Nate Bargatze, Nate Bargatze

Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

Elvis, Rocky & Me - The Carol Connors Story, Kathy Garver

Into The Uncut Grass, Trevor Noah

Lovely One: A Memoir, Ketanji Brown Jackson

Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama

You Know It's True: The Real Story Of Milli Vanilli, Fab Morvan

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet

F1® The Album, (Various Artists)

KPop Demon Hunters, (Various Artists)

Sinners, (Various Artists)

Wicked, (Various Artists)

Best Music Video

Young Lion, Sade, Sophie Muller, video director - Sade & Aaron Taylor Dean, video producers

Manchild - Sabrina Carpenter, Vania Heymann & Gal Muggia, video directors; Aiden Magarian, Nathan Scherrer & Natan Schottenfels, video producers

So Be It - Clipse, Hannan Hussain, video director; Daniel Order, video producer

Anxiety, Doechii, James Mackel, video director; Pablo Feldman, Jolene Mendes & Sophia Sabella, video producers

Love, OK Go, Aaron Duffy, Miguel Espada & Damian Kulash Jr., video directors; Petra Ahmann, video producer

Best Music Film

Devo, Devo, Chris Smith, video director; Danny Gabai, Anita Greenspan, Chris Holmes & Chris Smith, video producers

Live At The Royal Albert Hall, RAYE, Paul Dugdale, video director; Stefan Demetriou & Amy James, video producers

Relentless, Diane Warren, Bess Kargman, video director; Peggy Drexler, Michele Farinola & Kat Nguyen, video producers

Music By John Williams, John Williams, Laurent Bouzereau, video director; Sara Bernstein, Laurent Bouzereau, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Meredith Kaulfers, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Steven Spielberg & Justin Wilkes, video producers

Piece By Piece, Pharrell Williams, Morgan Neville, video director; Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers, Mimi Valdes & Pharrell Williams, video producers

Best Album Cover

CHROMAKOPIA, Shaun Llewellyn & Luis "Panch" Perez, art directors (Tyler, The Creator)

The Crux, William Wesley II, art director (Djo)

Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, art director (Bad Bunny)

Glory, Cody Critcheloe & Andrew J.S., art directors (Perfume Genius)

Moisturizer, Hester Chambers, Ellis Durand, Henry Holmes, Matt de Jong, Jamie-James Medina, Joshua Mobaraki & Rhian Teasdale, art directors (Wet Leg)

How dem dey decide di Grammys?

Dem submit almost 23,000 entries for di2026 Grammys awards.

Di biggest field na for song of di year, wey get 1,015 entries.

Di least category wey no too plenty na di best compilation soundtrack for visual media, e get just 48 entries.

Once dem screen and verify di submissions, voting members go take ova. Nearly 15,000 musicians, critics and music industry professionals dey cast ballots to decide di final nominees.

Afta dem publish di shortlist, anoda final round voting go take place between 12 December and 5 January.

Dem go announce di winners for one star-studded ceremony for Los Angeles on 1 February 2026.