{"id":435053,"date":"2026-01-26T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435053\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:20:09","slug":"grammys-2026-predictions-who-will-and-should-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435053\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammys 2026 Predictions: Who Will and Should Win?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Grammy Awards<\/a> return this Sunday, February 1, and will once again be hosted by Trevor Noah. It\u2019s the comedian\u2019s sixth\u2014and, according to him, final\u2014time leading the ceremony. Topping this year\u2019s list of nominees is Kendrick Lamar, with nine nods, including appearances in three categories he won in 2025<\/a>: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Rap Performance. For the second-most nominees, it\u2019s a three-way tie between Lady Gaga<\/a>, Jack Antonoff<\/a>, and Mayhem<\/a> producer Cirkut, who have seven apiece.<\/p>\n

Whether any of these artists comes home with a golden gramophone, though, remains to be seen. To find out, you\u2019ll have to watch this year\u2019s main ceremony, which will be broadcast live from Los Angeles\u2019 Crypto.com Arena, beginning at 8 p.m. EST on CBS and Paramount+. In the meantime, check out our predictions for who should and will win in key categories<\/a> at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n

\"Grammy<\/a>Grammy Nominations 2026: See the Full List Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Record of the Year<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny: \u201cDTMF\u201dBillie Eilish: \u201cWildflower\u201dChappell Roan: \u201cThe Subway\u201dDoechii: \u201cAnxiety\u201dKendrick Lamar & SZA: \u201cLuther\u201dLady Gaga: \u201cAbracadabra\u201dRos\u00e9 & Bruno Mars: \u201cApt.\u201dSabrina Carpenter: \u201cManchild\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Win: ROS\u00c9, Bruno Mars: \u201cAPT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should Win: Lady Gaga: \u201cAbracadabra\u201d<\/p>\n

Come Grammys season, ubiquity usually trumps all else; the more beaten into the cultural short-term memory, the better. In those terms, the 2026 Record of the Year race appears tight. Promo for Chappell Roan\u2019s latest loosie \u201cThe Subway<\/a>\u201d has been plastered across its namesake public transit system all year. Lady Gaga\u2019s \u201cAbracadabra\u201d premiered during last year\u2019s Grammys. Bad Bunny, one of the biggest artists in the world right now, will bring \u201cDtMF\u201d to the Super Bowl halftime show on February 8. And not only has Doechii\u2019s single \u201cAnxiety\u201d been floating around for years, it\u2019s all but pre-existing IP, lightly reworking a Gotye song that won this category in 2013.<\/p>\n

But if there\u2019s one contender that was completely inescapable in 2026, it\u2019s \u201cAPT.\u201d Even with Academy darlings like Kendrick Lamar, SZA, and Billie Eilish in the mix, \u201cAPT.\u201d is the kind of \u201ceven Grandma\u2019s getting into it\u201d pick Grammy voters love to laud. Bruno Mars is also a frequent flier in the Record of the Year category and Ros\u00e9\u2019s BLACKPINK beginnings fit the Grammys\u2019 recently-peaked interest in Korea\u2019s star-making machine. (If \u201cAPT.\u201d takes the statuette, she\u2019ll be the first K-pop artist to win the category.)<\/p>\n

But if it\u2019s top-to-bottom production and performance the Grammys are allegedly after, \u201cAbracadabra\u201d should win. The MAYHEM single doesn\u2019t exactly warrant a Lifetime Achievement nod. But after a decade of the Academy pointedly rewarding Gaga\u2019s more traditionalist work, seeing her clinch her first Record of the Year for a song sharing more DNA with \u201cSwine\u201d than \u201cShallow\u201d would be extremely satisfying. \u2014Hattie Lindert<\/p>\n

Album of the Year<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny: Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s FotosClipse, Pusha T & Malice: Let God Sort Em OutJustin Bieber: SwagKendrick Lamar: GNXLady Gaga: MayhemLeon Thomas: MuttSabrina Carpenter: Man\u2019s Best FriendTyler, the Creator: Chromakopia<\/p>\n

Should Win: Bad Bunny: Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grammy Awards return this Sunday, February 1, and will once again be hosted by Trevor Noah. It\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[92230,143022,49,48,9553,2312,11564,75,14594,33114,14761,7987,14851,180791,143032,17368,120374,5324,18549,8242,101413,73192,8241,343,143038],"class_list":["post-435053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-_opinion","tag-addison-rae","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-clipse","tag-columns","tag-dijon","tag-entertainment","tag-fka-twigs","tag-hayley-williams","tag-john-legend","tag-kendrick-lamar","tag-lady-gaga","tag-perfume-genius","tag-pinkpantheress","tag-sabrina-carpenter","tag-sombr","tag-sza","tag-textbelowcentergridwidth","tag-the-creator","tag-the-cure","tag-turnstile","tag-tyler","tag-web","tag-wet-leg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}