{"id":679656,"date":"2026-11-09T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/679656\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:34:10","slug":"2027-grammy-nominations-predictions-album-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/679656\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 Grammy Nominations Predictions: Album of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElla Langley<\/a>\u2019s dream year is likely to culminate in a sweep when the nominations for the 69th annual Grammy Awards are announced on Monday (Nov. 16).<\/p>\n

\n\tThanks to a rule change in the best new artist category that was announced in June, which allows an artist to be entered four times instead of three, Langley could be nominated in four of the six general field categories \u2014 album, record and song of the year plus best new artist. If that happens, Langley will become the first country crossover artist to achieve the feat since Bobbie Gentry<\/a> in 1968.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe first previewed the Grammy nominations in these marquee categories back in July. Starting today, we\u2019re going to update those predictions, as needed. First up, album of the year, probably the most prestigious and coveted of the 100 Grammy Awards. On Tuesday, we\u2019ll look at record and song of the year. On Wednesday, we\u2019ll take on best new artist.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor the fourth year in a row, there will be eight nominees in each of these categories. The eligibility period for the 69th annual Grammy Awards ran from Aug. 31, 2025, through Aug. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe field of likely album of the year contenders hasn\u2019t changed much since we first previewed them in July<\/a>. I bumped Don Toliver<\/a>\u2019s Octane up from \u201cWithin Reach\u201d to the top tier, taking the place of RAYE<\/a>\u2019s This Music May Contain Hope., which is competing with a more commercially successful album by another classy English pop-soul singer, Olivia Dean<\/a>. Both albums could make it, of course, but with many strong albums vying for just eight slots on the final ballot, something\u2019s gotta give.<\/p>\n

\n\tPaul McCartney<\/a> and Taylor Swift<\/a> are both going for history. If McCartney is nominated for The Boys of Dungeon Lane, it will be his record-extending 10th career nomination in this category. If Swift is nominated for The Life of a Showgirl, it will be her eighth nod in this category \u2014 more than anyone else in Grammy history for strictly solo albums. Swift is a better bet: She has been nominated in this category with each of her last four regular studio albums. McCartney was last nominated here in 2006.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe show the deluxe editions of hit albums by Noah Kahan<\/a> and Rosal\u00eda<\/a> because those are the ones that were entered in the Grammy competition. <\/p>\n

\n\tA total of 683 albums were on the eligibility list in this category. Here are our best guesses for who will be nominated \u2014 listed in alphabetical order, followed by a shortlist of other possibilities, also listed in alphabetical order.<\/p>\n

\tOlivia Dean, The Art of Loving<\/p>\n

\n\tDean, the reigning Grammy winner for best new artist, is among 16 artists who are set to announce<\/a> the Grammy nominations on a livestream on Nov. 16. Does that mean Recording Academy insiders already know she\u2019s going to sweep the nominations? I doubt it. But they probably suspect she will. This is the English singer\u2019s second studio album. Dean produced it alongside Julian Bunetta, Leon Michels and John Ryan, among others. Bunetta and Ryan were both nominated in this category for work with Sabrina Carpenter in 2025, with Ryan also being nominated for work with the singer in 2026. Michels was nominated for work with Mary J. Blige and Lizzo, both in 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard 200 peak: No. 3<\/p>\n

\tNoah Kahan, The Great Divide: The Last of the Bugs<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is Kahan\u2019s fourth studio album and his first to top the Billboard 200. This would be his first nomination in this category. He was up for best new artist at the 2024 ceremony, but lost to Victoria Mon\u00e9t. He co-produced the album with Gabe Simon and Aaron Dessner. The latter was nominated in this category for three Taylor Swift albums: folklore (which won), evermore and The Tortured Poets Department. <\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard 200 peak: No. 1 (three weeks)<\/p>\n

\tElla Langley, Dandelion<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is vying to become the first album by a core country artist to land an album of the year nod since Kacey Musgraves\u2019 Golden Hour, which won in 2019. Langley co-produced this, her sophomore album, with Miranda Lambert and Ben West. If Langley is nominated here, she won\u2019t be the first Ella to land an album of the year nod: Ella Fitzgerald was nominated at the inaugural Grammy ceremony in 1959 for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard 200 peak: No. 1 (three weeks)<\/p>\n

\tBruno Mars, The Romantic<\/p>\n

\n\tIf The Romantic, which Mars co-produced with D\u2019Mile, is nominated here, it will be Mars\u2019 first album to both top the Billboard 200 and land an album of the year nod. Two Mars albums \u2014 Doo-Wops & Hooligans and 24K Magic \u2014 were nominated in this category (24K Magic won), but neither of them reached No. 1.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard 200 peak: No. 1 (one week)<\/p>\n

\tOlivia Rodrigo, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love<\/p>\n

\n\tRodrigo\u2019s first two albums, SOUR and GUTS, were nominated here. Her third album seems sure to follow suit, which would make Rodrigo the first artist to be nominated with her first three studio albums since Billie Eilish. Daniel Nigro produced all three of Rodrigo\u2019s albums. you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love is vying to become the second album with a 10-word title to land an album of the year nod, following Lana Del Rey\u2019s Did You Know That There\u2019s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard 200 peak: No. 1 (four weeks so far)<\/p>\n

\tRosal\u00eda, LUX (Complete Works)<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, when the Recording Academy invited members of the Latin Recording Academy to join its ranks, nearly 1,000 took the organization up on the offer. Their votes helped Bad Bunny\u2019s DeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS become the first Spanish-language album to win album of the year. This year, Rosal\u00eda could become the first woman artist to land an album of the year nod with a Spanish-language album. Rosal\u00eda co-produced the album, her fourth studio set.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard 200 peak: No. 4<\/p>\n

\tTaylor Swift, The Life of a Showgirl<\/p>\n

\n\tAs previously noted, Swift\u2019s last four studio albums (excluding rerecordings) were nominated in this category. If The Life of a Showgirl also makes it, she\u2019ll become just the second artist in Grammy history (following her one-time collaboration partner Kendrick Lamar) to be nominated with five consecutive studio albums. Swift produced her 12th studio album with Max Martin and Shellback. The album has spent 15 weeks atop the Billboard 200, just two weeks shy of Swift\u2019s personal best, which she set with The Tortured Poets Department. Swift\u2019s five pre-Showgirl albums with the longest runs at No. 1 all received album of the year nods.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard 200 peak: No. 1 (15 weeks)<\/p>\n

\tDon Toliver, Octane<\/p>\n

\n\tToliver\u2019s fifth studio album was his first to top the Billboard 200. It spawned a pair of top 20 Hot 100 hits, \u201cBody\u201d and \u201cE85.\u201d Oliver was nominated in this category as a featured artist on Kanye West\u2019s Donda five years ago, but this would be his first nomination as a lead artist. Toliver was among the producers of the album, which features Travis Scott, Yeat and Rema, among others. Last year, three rap albums were nominated in this category. This appears to be the rap album with the strongest chance of making it this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard 200 peak: No. 1 (one week)<\/p>\n

\tWithin Reach<\/p>\n

\n\tPhoebe Bridgers, Lost Weekend; Brandi Carlile, Returning to Myself; Charli xcx, Music, Fashion, Film; Ariana Grande, Petal; Kehlani, Kehlani; Steve Lacy, Oh yeah?; Madonna, Confessions II; Paul McCartney, The Boys of Dungeon Lane; Kacey Musgraves, Middle of Nowhere; RAYE, This Music May Contain Hope.; Harry Styles, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.; Sienna Spiro, Visitor; Tame Impala, Deadbeat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s dream year is likely to culminate in a sweep when the nominations for the 69th annual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6971,93,21946,17365,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-679656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-grammy-award-for-album-of-the-year","tag-grammys","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}