{"id":159316,"date":"2026-02-01T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159316\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:08:08","slug":"grammys-2026-could-make-history-as-musics-biggest-names-gather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159316\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammys 2026 could make history as music’s biggest names gather"},"content":{"rendered":"

By MARIA SHERMAN, Associated Press<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The 68th annual Grammy Awards<\/a> will take place Sunday with a dramatically different tone than last year.<\/p>\n

The 2025 award show was completely reimagined and refocused to relief efforts following the devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires.<\/a> In 2026, focus has been placed once again on the music, where Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny and more will go head-to-head.<\/p>\n

Comedian Trevor Noah will host for a sixth and final year<\/a> and history could be made when some of the biggest names in music gather. Here\u2019s some key things to know ahead of Sunday\u2019s show at the Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n

How to watch the show and red carpet<\/p>\n

The main show will air live on CBS beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

The Grammys can also be watched through live TV streaming services that include CBS in their lineup, like Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV and FuboTV.<\/p>\n

Paramount+ premium plan subscribers will be able to stream the Grammys live; Paramount+ essential subscribers will have on-demand access the next day.<\/p>\n

The premiere ceremony will take place just ahead of the Grammys\u2019 ceremony at 3:30 p.m. Eastern, 12:30 p.m. Pacific at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. It can be streamed at the Recording Academy\u2019s YouTube channel and on live.GRAMMY.com.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press will stream a four-hour red carpet show with interviews and fashion footage. It will be streamed on YouTube<\/a> and APNews.com ahead of the Grammys on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s nominated at the 2025 Grammys<\/p>\n

Kendrick Lamar<\/a> leads the 2026 Grammy Award<\/a> nominations with nine. Lady Gaga,<\/a> Jack Antonoff and Canadian record producer\/songwriter Cirkut follow with seven nominations each.<\/p>\n

Sabrina 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

\"This combination of photos show Jack Antonoff, left, Kendrick Lamar, center, and Lady Gaga. (AP Photo)
\nWho\u2019s attending and performing at the Grammys<\/p>\n

Doechii, Harry Styles, Carole King, Chappell Roan, Charli xcx, Jeff Goldblum, Karol G, Lainey Wilson, Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez, Nikki Glaser, Q-Tip, Queen Latifah and Teyana Taylor will present at the 2026 Grammys.<\/p>\n

Performers include Justin Bieber, Clipse, Pharrell Williams, Sabrina Carpenter Bruno Mars, Ros\u00e9, Tyler, the Creator, Lady Gaga and all eight of this year\u2019s best new artist nominees: Leon Thomas,<\/a> Olivia Dean, global girl group Katseye,<\/a> The Mar\u00edas, Addison Rae, sombr, Alex Warren and Lola Young.<\/p>\n

Reba McEntire, Brandy Clark and Lukas Nelson will take the stage for the in memoriam. Ms. Lauryn Hill will pay tribute to D\u2019Angelo and Roberta Flack. Post Malone, Andrew Watt, Chad Smith, Duff McKagan and Slash will honor Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n

\"KarolKarol G arrives at the Pre-Grammy Gala on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By MARIA SHERMAN, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The 68th annual Grammy Awards will take place Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[28681,28646,77213,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-159316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-grammy-awards","9":"tag-grammys","10":"tag-grammys-2026","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}