{"id":250206,"date":"2025-11-07T23:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250206\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:08:12","slug":"grammy-awards-2026-kendrick-lamar-leads-nominations-with-nine-nods-grammy-awards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250206\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy awards 2026: Kendrick Lamar leads nominations with nine nods | Grammy awards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Grammys<\/a>\u2019 love continues for Kendrick Lamar<\/a>. The rapper, who took home the most trophies<\/a> at the 2025 music awards with five, leads the nominees for the 2026 awards.<\/p>\n

Lamar is up for nine awards, including album of the year (for his most recent, GNX<\/a>), best rap album, record of the year and song of the year. He faces competition for the night\u2019s top award \u2013 album of the year \u2013 from Bad Bunny<\/a>, Justin Bieber<\/a>, Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, Lady Gaga<\/a>, Leon Thomas, Tyler, the Creator<\/a> and Clipse, Pusha T & Malice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gaga follows Lamar with seven nominations, tied for second with producers Cirkut and Jack Antonoff<\/a>. Other top nominees include Carpenter, Thomas, and next year\u2019s Super Bowl half-time show performer<\/a>, Bad Bunny, who each received six.<\/p>\n

The Latin superstar, whose album Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos anchored a groundbreaking residency<\/a> in his native Puerto Rico, becomes the first Spanish-language artist to be nominated across the Grammys\u2019 big three categories: album of the year, song of the year and record of the year. His song DtMF competes in record of the year against Carpenter\u2019s Manchild, Doechii<\/a>\u2019s Anxiety, Billie Eilish<\/a>\u2019s Wildflower, Lady Gaga\u2019s Abracadabra, Lamar and SZA<\/a>\u2019s Luther, Chappell Roan<\/a>\u2019s The Subway, and Bruno Mars<\/a> and Ros\u00e9\u2019s APT.<\/p>\n

Lamar\u2019s Luther is also nominated for song of the year alongside Abracadabra, Anxiety, APT, DtMF, Wildflower, Manchild and the KPop Demon Hunters<\/a>\u2019 track Golden. The chart-topping song marks the first time an animated performer \u2013 Huntr\/X: Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami \u2013 has been nominated for song of the year.<\/p>\n

Roan, last year\u2019s best new artist winner, announced this year\u2019s nominees, including Olivia Dean<\/a>, Katseye, the Mar\u00edas, Addison Rae<\/a>, sombr, Thomas, Alex Warren<\/a> and Lola Young<\/a>. Other presenters included Brandi Carlile<\/a>, Carpenter, Doechii, Sam Smith<\/a>, and Sharon, Jack and Kelly Osbourne, honoring the late metal legend Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n

Wet Leg<\/a>, Perfume Genius<\/a>, Bad Bunny, Djo<\/a> and Tyler, the Creator became the first-ever nominees for best album cover, one of two new awards debuting this year.<\/p>\n

Some of the year\u2019s most omnipresent songs were not represented. There were no Grammy nominations for Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s I\u2019m the Problem, the year\u2019s second-biggest album, though his team announced earlier this year that he would not submit his music for consideration in the future. And Grammy mainstay Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s blockbuster album The Life of a Showgirl<\/a>, released in October, fell outside the eligibility window, which ran from 31 August 2024 until 30 August 2025.<\/p>\n

This is the first year since 2018 that there\u2019s no British artist nominated for record, song or album of the year. But UK artists fared well across the genre categories, with Young and Dean both nominated for best new artist. Young\u2019s track Messy also got a nod for best pop solo performance.<\/p>\n

English singer Yungblud, who was heavily involved in tributes for Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>, received three nominations, for best rock album, rock song and rock performance. Indie rock band Wet Leg, from the Isle of Wight, picked up two nominations for best alternative performance and best alternative album. And PinkPantheress scored two nominations for dance pop recording and dance\/electronic album, alongside Fred Again, who also notched a nomination for dance\/electronic recording. That nomination, for the song Victory Lap, also marks the first nod for British grime artist Skepta.<\/p>\n

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In announcing the nominees, the recording academy\u2019s CEO, Harvey Mason Jr, said that the Grammys<\/a> had \u201ccelebrated music\u2019s very, very best\u201d for 68 years. He noted that this year, 15,000 voting members listened to and accounted for 20,000 entries in 95 categories, making the Grammys \u201cmusic\u2019s most coveted award because it\u2019s music people honoring music people\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lamar took home the most awards at last year\u2019s ceremony<\/a>, winning five awards, including record of the year and song of the year. The evening also saw Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>, the most-awarded artist in Grammy history, win her first album of the year award, as well as best country album, for Cowboy Carter<\/a>, in a ceremony that paid tribute to those affected by the devastating California wildfires.<\/p>\n

The 68th Grammy awards will take place on 1 February 2026 at the Crypto.com arena in Los Angeles, with a host to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grammys\u2019 love continues for Kendrick Lamar. The rapper, who took home the most trophies at the 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-250206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250206","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=250206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}