\n\tLeading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 16, Rolling Stone is breaking down 11 different categories. For each, we\u2019re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tRecord of the Year \u2014 not to be mistaken for Song of the Year \u2014 honors a song\u2019s recorded version, and is given to all the people involved in its music making. This year\u2019s crop will likely see established artists up against relative newcomers across a mix of genres, including Ella Langley<\/a>, Raye<\/a>, Noah Kahan<\/a>, and the protean Rosal\u00eda. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cGrammys, there\u2019s the biz of it all,\u201d points out Tony Gervino, editor-in-chief of Tidal. \u201cThey are trying to age down and get that younger audience and be relevant in that younger space, coupled with the fact that there are so many younger and fresher artists that are killing it. I see them going a little more in that direction.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tRecord of the Year \u2013 Our Predictions\t<\/p>\n \n\tOlivia Dean<\/a>, \u201cMan I Need\u201d \t\tWho Will Win?\t<\/p>\n \n\tOlivia Dean, \u201cMan I Need\u201d \n\tDon\u2019t count out Raye, either. \u201cSometimes the Grammys go with people they know. They\u2019re not familiar with every song so they fall back on people they\u2019re familiar with,\u201d says Gervino. \u201cIf I had to guess, I\u2019d say Raye is gonna win Record of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n \n\tAll that aside, we see Dean taking home the gold. Her song carries the nostalgia and gorgeous technicalities that the Grammys love to reward \u2014 and that\u2019s not a knock on this sumptuous hit. ROTY honors the song\u2019s architects, so expect to see Dean, co-writer Tobias MacDonald Jesso Jr. (who nabbed the inaugural Songwriter of the Year in 2023), and co-writer\/producer Zach Nahome all onstage.<\/p>\n \t\tWho Should Win?\t<\/p>\n \n\tRosal\u00eda, \u201cBerghain\u201d \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI would like to see Rosal\u00eda win something for that album. There has to be a world where that kind of creativity and genius is rewarded,\u201d says Gervino. \u201cThe first time I heard [Lux], it\u2019s like Robert Johnson \u2014 all of a sudden it comes out of nowhere and you\u2019re like wait, where did this come from? There\u2019s no precedent for that album. You can\u2019t put her in a box. That\u2019s the challenge with that.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tForecasting the Field\t<\/p>\n \n\tThe Olivias are contending for the top spots this year. And Rodrigo, who has had a monumental year, will likely make the list with \u201cThe Cure\u201d \u2014 she has a good chance of winning it all too. There\u2019s also the heavyweights to keep in mind: Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars are Grammy darlings and could show up here. Then, there\u2019s Noah Kahan, whose The Great Divide album Gervino calls \u201cpristine,\u201d and says that its titular single is \u201cgreat thematically\u201d and a song \u201ceveryone can identify with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 16, Rolling Stone is breaking down 11 different categories. For…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[45290,150800,88,350825,369790,216,208144,43169,8246,155899,134453,4915],"class_list":["post-879778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bruno-mars","tag-ella-langley","tag-entertainment","tag-grammys-2027","tag-grammysfyc2027","tag-music","tag-noah-kahan","tag-olivia-dean","tag-olivia-rodrigo","tag-raye","tag-rosalia","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879778","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=879778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Noah Kahan, \u201cThe Great Divide\u201d
Ella Langley, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d
Bruno Mars<\/a>, \u201cI Just Might\u201d
Raye, \u201cWhere Is My Husband!\u201d
Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>, \u201cThe Cure\u201d
Rosal\u00eda, feat. Bj\u00f6rk and Yves Tumor, \u201cBerghain\u201d\u00a0
Taylor Swift<\/a>, \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d<\/p>\n
This is a tough one to predict. For starters, it\u2019s a feat just to contend with a song as gargantuan as Olivia Dean\u2019s \u201cMan I Need,\u201d and the record-breaking \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d from country star Ella Langley does just that. The upset would mark the first time in more than a decade that the Grammys rewarded a country artist with ROTY (Lady A and \u201cNeed You Now\u201d was last in 2011). And Langley\u2019s hit has broken numerous chart records including becoming the longest running Number One song<\/a> in Billboard Hot 100 history. It arrives at a time when the genre\u2019s sales and streaming numbers are spiking.<\/p>\n
The first single off her instant classic, Lux, sees the pop maverick wield her training as a conservatory musician with operatic vocals in German and Spanish, set against the booming London Symphony Orchestra and featuring cameos from Bj\u00f6rk and Yves Tumor. There\u2019s nothing else that sounds like it and it\u2019s impossible to stuff into a single genre, which makes it difficult for the Grammys to pin. Noah Goldstein, Sir Dylan, and Jake Miller, who produced the song with Rosal\u00eda, were surgical in structuring this masterpiece together, juxtaposing the song\u2019s irreverence with its intense spirituality.\u00a0<\/p>\n