{"id":243931,"date":"2025-10-22T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/243931\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:26:14","slug":"who-should-be-nominated-at-the-2026-grammy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/243931\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Should Be Nominated at the 2026 Grammy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take \u201cS P E Y S I D E<\/a>\u201d\u2014perhaps the purest distillation of songwriting as an art from this eligibility period. Accompanied by little more than an acoustic guitar, Justin Vernon revisited the spare arrangements of his debut, For Emma, Forever Ago<\/a>, with another two decades years of wisdom to his name. MJ Lenderman also had a banner 2024 with the release of Manning Fireworks<\/a>, and there\u2019s hardly a better encapsulation of his sad-sack, lightly absurdist charms in couplet form than \u201cI got a beach home up in Buffalo\/And a wristwatch that\u2019s a compass and a cellphone.\u201d Then again, for a tribute to the escapist power of music itself, I simply say: Put your headphones on<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among the likely candidates, though, two songs stand out as marriages of craft and commerce. While Justin Bieber has never been a Grammys favorite, \u201cDaisies,\u201d from the surprise-released Swag<\/a>, marks his most decisive step yet away from a prolonged musical adolescence and toward grown-man R&B. Bieber\u2019s co-writer and a rising star himself, Mk.gee deserves a nod, too\u2014his slippery, hyper-compressed take on 1980s new wave sounds more and more like the future of pop. Meanwhile, Bad Bunny\u2019s Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos<\/a> boasts at least five tracks that could reasonably lay claim to Song of the Year, but \u201cBaile Inolvidable\u201d might be the best of the bunch: catchy, hugely popular, forward-thinking, reverent of tradition, political, danceable, irresistible.<\/p>\n

\u2013Walden Green<\/p>\n

\"Bon<\/a>Best New ArtistAddison RaeAlex WarrenKatseyeLola YoungMJ LendermanPinkPantheressRavyn LenaeSleep Token<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Best New Artist race<\/a> was a genuine toss-up, with most of its nominees\u2014Doechii, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan\u2014having true breakout years in the traditional interpretation of that term. Conversely, this year\u2019s nomination pool appears far less locked in, even before resorting to the usual \u201cAre so-and-so really all that \u2018new\u2019?\u201d pulls. Dare we throw the word \u201cexciting\u201d around when discussing the Grammy Awards in 2025, but, frankly, ample room for a handful of pleasant Best New Artist surprises is actually exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take \u201cS P E Y S I D E\u201d\u2014perhaps the purest distillation of songwriting as an art from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,133790,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-243931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-grammys2026","10":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}