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<\/p>\nNot like us? More like him: Kendrick Lamar leads the 2026 Grammy Award nominations, announced Friday.<\/p>\n
The rapper is up for nine trophies at February\u2019s ceremony: record, song and album of the year \u2014 marking the third time he\u2019s had simultaneous nominations in those big categories \u2014 as well as pop duo\/group performance, melodic rap performance, rap song and rap album. He\u2019s also nominated twice in the rap performance category.<\/p>\n
Lamar, who is riding the success of last year\u2019s blockbuster GNX album, has 22 Grammy career wins and 66 nominations. GNX is his fifth consecutive studio album to be nominated for album of the year, something no other artist has ever done. If it wins, it will be his first win in the category. And it will be only the third rap album to win the top prize, following Outkast in 2004 for Speakerboxxx\/The Love Below and Lauryn Hill in 1999 for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.<\/p>\n
Lady Gaga, Jack Antonoff and Canadian record producer\/songwriter Cirkut follow Lamar with seven nominations each.<\/p>\n
Lady Gaga is up for song, record and album of the year \u2014 her first time receiving nominations in all three categories simultaneously. She could also score potential wins in the pop solo performance, pop vocal album, dance pop recording and traditional pop vocal album categories.<\/p>\n
Antonoff is nominated in the record, album and song of the year categories twice, for his work with Lamar and Sabrina Carpenter. He\u2019s also nominated for rap song for the first time. That\u2019s for tv off with Lamar, featuring Lefty Gunplay.<\/p>\n
Antonoff and Cirkut will face off in the producer of the year, non-classical category. If Antonoff wins, he will tie Babyface\u2019s record of most career wins in the category, with four.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not all. Cirkut is up for both record and song of the year, twice \u2014 for Lady Gaga\u2019s Abracadabra and Ros\u00e9 and Bruno Mars\u2019 APT \u2014 as well as album of the year and best dance pop recording.<\/p>\n
In addition to Lady Gaga\u2019s Mayhem and Lamar\u2019s GNX, the album of the year category is rounded out by Carpenter\u2019s Man\u2019s Best Friend, Bad Bunny\u2019s Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos, Justin Bieber\u2019s Swag, Clipse, Pusha T & Malice\u2019s Let God Sort Em Out, Leon Thomas\u2019 Mutt and Tyler, the Creator\u2019s Chromakopia.<\/p>\n
This is the first time three albums have been up for both rap album and album of the year: GNX, Let God Sort Em Out and Chromakopia.<\/p>\n
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Decorative Grammy Awards appear on the red carpet at the 64th annual Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on April 3, 2022. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n
Additionally, Bad Bunny\u2019s Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos is only the second time an all-Spanish language album has been nominated for the top prize. The first was also a Bad Bunny release \u2014 in 2023, for Un Verano Sin Ti. Harry Styles\u2019 Harry\u2019s House won that year.<\/p>\n
Carpenter, Bad Bunny, Leon Thomas and Serban Ghenea all boast six nominations. Andrew Watt, Clipse, Doechii, Sounwave, SZA, Turnstile and Tyler, the Creator have five each.<\/p>\n
Only recordings commercially released in the US between August 31, 2024 through August 30, 2025 were eligible for nominations. The final round of Grammy voting, which determines its winners, will take place December 12 through January 5.<\/p>\n
In the best new artist category, global girl group Katseye, Olivia Dean, The Marias, Addison Rae, sombr, Leon Thomas, Alex Warren and Lola Young will all go head-to-head.<\/p>\n
The record of the year category is made up of Bad Bunny\u2019s DtMF, Carpenter\u2019s Manchild, Doechii\u2019s Anxiety, Billie Eilish\u2019s Wildflower, Lady Gaga\u2019s Abracadabra, Lamar and SZA\u2019s luther, Chappell Roan\u2019s The Subway and Ros\u00e9 and Bruno Mars\u2019 APT.<\/p>\n
Ros\u00e9, perhaps best known as one-fourth of the juggernaut girl group BLACKPINK, is the first K-pop artist to ever receive a nomination in the record of the year field.<\/p>\n
Some may be surprised to see Eilish included in the bunch, as Wildflower was released on her spring 2024 album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, ahead of the eligibility window. However, there is a Recording Academy rule that allows albums released during the previous ceremony\u2019s eligibility period to be considered, \u201cprovided the same tracks were not entered the previous year and the album did not win a Grammy,\u201d with a few exceptions. By that rule, Eilish\u2019s Wildflower \u2014 which was not previously entered \u2014 is eligible.<\/p>\n
Song of the year \u2014 an award for a track\u2019s songwriters, which sometimes include the performer but not always \u2014 is made up of an almost identical list to record of the year, except Roan is replaced by Golden from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Grammy Awards are our opportunity to honour the people who make this community so vibrant, and this year\u2019s nominees remind us of the incredible talent that is driving music forward,\u201d said Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr in a statement. \u201cFrom emerging talent to influential icons, these nominees reflect today\u2019s broad and diverse musical landscape, and I am excited to celebrate them in the coming weeks ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are a number of first-time nominees as well this year, including Tate McRae, Zara Larsson, PinkPantheress, JID and Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. You read that correctly.<\/p>\n
The 2026 Grammy Awards will air February 1 live on CBS and Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not like us? More like him: Kendrick Lamar leads the 2026 Grammy Award nominations, announced Friday. The rapper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-123759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}