{"id":120528,"date":"2025-11-07T13:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/120528\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:04:13","slug":"grammy-nominations-2026-surprises-and-new-categories-await","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/120528\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy nominations 2026: Surprises and new categories await"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The 2026 Grammy Award<\/a> nominations are almost here. And the competition will be stiff.<\/p>\n

Nominees will be announced during a video livestream on the Grammy website and the Recording Academy\u2019s YouTube channel on Friday at 8 a.m. Pacific and 11 a.m. Eastern. <\/p>\n

A host of talent is on deck to announce the nominees, including Gayle King, Doechii, Karol G,<\/a> Lizzo, Mumford & Sons, Nicole Scherzinger, Sabrina Carpenter, Sam Smith, Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo, Brandi Carlile, CeCe Winans, David Foster, Jon Batiste, Little Big Town, Masaki Koike and last year\u2019s best new artist winner,<\/a> Chappell Roan.<\/p>\n

Only recordings commercially released in the U.S. between Aug. 31, 2024 through Aug. 30, 2025 are eligible for nominations, so don\u2019t expect to see Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d<\/a> included. But do expect to see Carpenter\u2019s \u201cMan\u2019s Best Friend\u201d<\/a> among the nominees; it was released just under the wire on August 29. <\/p>\n

That might have a little something to do with the new addition of a stand-alone category for best album cover.<\/a> Carpenter sparked considerable discourse when its artwork was revealed; it shows the pop star kneeling on the ground in a dog-like pose while an unseen person pulls her by the hair. <\/p>\n

There are plenty of unknowns going into the nomination announcements, too. The most obvious contenders for album of the year did not release new full-lengths within the eligibility window \u2014 artists like Swift, Beyonc\u00e9 and Adele. But there have been a few heavy hitters, like Kendrick Lamar\u2019s \u201cGNX,\u201d<\/a> Lady Gaga\u2019s \u201cMayhem\u201d<\/a> and Bad Bunny\u2019s \u201cDeb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos.\u201d<\/a> If any of them took home the top prize, it would be for the first time.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most mysterious of all is a change made to the best country album category. Following Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s historic win of best album and best country album at the 2025 Grammy Awards<\/a> for \u201cCowboy Carter,\u201d<\/a> the latter category has been divided into two, with the creation of a best traditional country album category. The existing best country album category has been renamed best contemporary country album.<\/p>\n

The 2026 Grammy Awards will air Feb. 1 live on CBS and Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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For more coverage of the 2026 Grammy Awards, visit: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/grammy-awards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The 2026 Grammy Award nominations are almost here. And the competition will be stiff.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[34887,17882,4670,146,122,52559,85,46,22321,1900,409,2070,917,126],"class_list":["post-120528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-adele","tag-beyonce-knowles","tag-california","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-grammy-awards","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lizzo","tag-los-angeles","tag-music","tag-taylor-swift","tag-u-s-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}