{"id":246779,"date":"2025-11-06T06:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246779\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:26:23","slug":"2026-grammy-nominations-predictions-kendrick-and-gaga-dominate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246779\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Grammy nominations predictions: Kendrick and Gaga dominate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To get it out of the way: No, Taylor Swift\u2019s name will not dominate nominations for the 68th Grammy Awards when they\u2019re announced Friday morning. Because it came out in early October, the pop superstar\u2019s mega-blockbuster \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl<\/a>\u201d wasn\u2019t eligible for consideration for next year\u2019s ceremony (whose window ran from Aug. 31, 2024, to Aug. 30, 2025). So you\u2019ll have to wait until next fall to see the Recording Academy bestow Swift with her eighth nomination for album of the year, as indeed it\u2019s sure to do. For now, here are our bets for who\u2019s likely to show up in the Grammys\u2019 Top 4 categories, with potential honorees listed in alphabetical order. Music\u2019s most prestigious awards show will take place Feb. 1 at Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

ALBUM OF THE YEAR<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny, \u201cDeb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos\u201d
Justin Bieber, \u201cSwag<\/a>\u201d
Sabrina Carpenter, \u201cMan\u2019s Best Friend<\/a>\u201d
Elton John & Brandi Carlile, \u201cWho Believes in Angels?\u201d
Lady Gaga, \u201cMayhem<\/a>\u201d
Kendrick Lamar, \u201cGNX<\/a>\u201d
Laufey, \u201cA Matter of Time\u201d
Tyler, the Creator, \u201cChromakopia\u201d<\/p>\n

Possible surprise: The Weeknd, \u201cHurry Up Tomorrow\u201d<\/p>\n

Lamar and Gaga are both perennial nominees for the Grammys\u2019 flagship prize (though neither has ever won), and Bad Bunny\u2019s chances were only bolstered by his selection to headline next year\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show. The Recording Academy can\u2019t get enough of young fogeys like Laufey<\/a>, whose pop-jazz balladry might evoke voters\u2019 memories of Norah Jones. And watch out for a possible appearance by the Weeknd following his highly theatrical reconciliation with the academy (after a yearslong boycott) during this past February\u2019s show.<\/p>\n

RECORD OF THE YEAR<\/p>\n

Justin Bieber, \u201cDaisies\u201d
Sabrina Carpenter, \u201cManchild\u201d
Billie Eilish<\/a>, \u201cWildflower\u201d
Lady Gaga, \u201cAbracadabra\u201d
Kendrick Lamar and SZA, \u201cLuther\u201d
Chappell Roan, \u201cThe Subway\u201d
Ros\u00e9 and Bruno Mars, \u201cApt.\u201d
Alex Warren, \u201cOrdinary\u201d<\/p>\n

Possible surprise: Huntr\/x, \u201cGolden\u201d<\/p>\n

Lamar won this category in February with \u201cNot Like Us,\u201d which means he\u2019d almost certainly turn up again even if \u201cLuther\u201d hadn\u2019t topped Billboard\u2019s Hot 100 for 13 weeks. (Once you\u2019re in with the academy, you\u2019re generally in \u2014 see Eilish\u2019s five previous nods for record of the year.) Roan\u2019s \u201cThe Subway\u201d didn\u2019t have the commercial legs of some of her earlier hits, but it\u2019s the type of grandly emotional ballad that voters love. A nod for \u201cApt.\u201d or for \u201cGolden,\u201d the latter from Netflix\u2019s inescapable \u201cKPop Demon Hunters,\u201d would be the first for a K-pop act in record of the year; \u201cGolden\u201d would be the first track by a cartoon group to be nominated since, uh, \u201cThe Chipmunk Song\u201d in 1959.<\/p>\n

SONG OF THE YEAR<\/p>\n

\u201cDaisies,\u201d written by Eddie Benjamin, Justin Bieber, Daniel Chetrit, Dijon, Tobias Jesso Jr., Carter Lang, Mk.gee and Dylan Wiggins (performed by Justin Bieber)
\u201cLover Girl,\u201d written by Laufey and Spencer Stewart (performed by Laufey)
\u201cLuther,\u201d written by Jack Antonoff<\/a>, Roshwita Bacha, Matthew Bernard, Atia Boggs, Scott Bridgeway, Sam Dew, Marvin Gaye, Kendrick Lamar, Mark Spears, SZA and Kamasi Washington (performed by Kendrick Lamar and SZA)
\u201cManchild,\u201d written by Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff and Sabrina Carpenter (performed by Sabrina Carpenter)
\u201cOrdinary,\u201d written by Mags Duval, Cal Shaprio, Alex Warren and Adam Yaron (performed by Alex Warren)
\u201cThat\u2019s So True,\u201d written by Gracie Abrams and Audrey Hobert (performed by Gracie Abrams)
\u201cThe Subway,\u201d written by Daniel Nigro and Chappell Roan (performed by Chappell Roan)
\u201cWildflower,\u201d written by Billie Eilish and Finneas O\u2019Connell (performed by Billie Eilish)<\/p>\n

Possible surprise: \u201cAll My Love,\u201d written by Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin and Moses Martin (performed by Coldplay)<\/p>\n

At the most recent Grammys ceremony, five of the eight nominees for record of the year were also nominated for song of the year. (The record prize goes to performers and producers, while song of the year goes to songwriters.) So expect plenty of overlap here along with possible nods for songs by Gracie Abrams<\/a> \u2014 a Taylor disciple in a year with no Taylor \u2014 Laufey and Coldplay, the last of whom has stayed competitive at the Grammys for way longer than you might have thought.<\/p>\n

BEST NEW ARTIST<\/p>\n

Olivia Dean
Ravyn Lenae
Megan Moroney<\/a>
Gigi Perez<\/a>
Sombr<\/a>
Leon Thomas
Alex Warren
Lola Young<\/a> <\/p>\n

Possible surprise: Jensen McRae<\/a> <\/p>\n

Of this year\u2019s fresh hitmakers, Warren has had the most chart success by far with his brooding (and quasi-Christian) \u201cOrdinary,\u201d which has logged 10 weeks at No. 1 and racked up more than 1 billion streams on Spotify. Yet women have easily outnumbered men in this category over the last decade \u2014 the last guy to actually win was Chance the Rapper in 2017 \u2014 which means nominations will probably go to the likes of Moroney, the crafty country star; Lenae, of \u201cLove Me Not\u201d fame; and Dean and Young, both of whom belong in a long lineage of Grammy-fave U.K. soul singers that also includes Adele, Sam Smith and Amy Winehouse. A nod for McRae, an L.A.-based up-and-comer with a flair for the folk-pop confessional, is no doubt a long shot \u2014 at least until you remember that her indie label, Dead Oceans, made it into the race last year with Khruangbin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To get it out of the way: No, Taylor Swift\u2019s name will not dominate nominations for the 68th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7321,3331,21746,103245,96,103244,71006,7322,58082,42594,128,56089,103248,4669,103246,15515,103247,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-246779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-alex-warren","9":"tag-billie-eilish","10":"tag-chappell-roan","11":"tag-chipmunk-song","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-gaga","14":"tag-grammys","15":"tag-justin-bieber","16":"tag-kendrick","17":"tag-laufey","18":"tag-music","19":"tag-next-year","20":"tag-possible-surprise","21":"tag-record","22":"tag-recording-academy","23":"tag-sabrina-carpenter","24":"tag-sza","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}