{"id":880922,"date":"2026-10-13T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880922\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:40:09","slug":"2027-grammys-predictions-album-of-the-year-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880922\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 Grammys Predictions: Album of the Year Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe 2027 Grammys\u2019 Album of the Year category will once again be stacked with a handful of top contenders. But one artist in particular leads the pack: Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>. The singer-songwriter could finally take home the biggest award of the night for her third studio album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love<\/a>. Since her debut in 2021, Rodrigo\u2019s acclaimed albums<\/a> have both gotten nods in the category, but never won. This may just be her year.<\/p>\n

\t\tAlbum of the Year \u2014 Our Predictions\t<\/p>\n

\n\tPhoebe Bridgers<\/a>, Lost Weekend
Olivia Dean<\/a>, The Art of Loving
Noah Kahan<\/a>, The Great Divide
Ella Langley<\/a>, Dandelion
Bruno Mars<\/a>, The Romantic
Olivia Rodrigo, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Rosal\u00eda<\/a>, Lux
Taylor Swift<\/a>, The Life of a Showgirl<\/p>\n

\t\tWho Will Win?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tOlivia Rodrigo, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Olivia Rodrigo stunned audiences and critics alike with the release of her highly-anticipated You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. The 23-year-old showed an impressive amount of maturity both in her songwriting and sound as she folded in New Wave inspirations. \u201cShe has this engagement where people are just listening front to back on repeat,\u201d says John Stein, head of North America Editorial at Spotify. Since the album\u2019s release in June, Rodrigo has been unstoppable, launching her own music festival, Daisy Chain Fields<\/a>, and kicking off her Unraveled Tour<\/a> in support of the LP. \u201cShe really puts in the work. She tours hard, she\u2019s an incredible songwriter and really hones these tight, no fat albums,\u201d Stein says. \u201cI think that really works in her favor here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tWho Should Win?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tOlivia Rodrigo, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Rodrigo isn\u2019t new to the Academy. She won Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album for her debut in 2022. Both of her first two albums, Sour<\/a> and Guts<\/a>, have also been nominated for AOTY before, but ultimately lost out. \u201cIt\u2019s surprising she actually hasn\u2019t won yet because she has these really strong albums that really feel like a moment,\u201d Stein says. \u201cShe builds a world around them. That really resonates with voters,\u201d he adds. Now, four years after her first Grammy win at 19, Rodrigo has stepped further<\/a> into her artistry.<\/p>\n

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\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n

\t\tForecasting the Field\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Rodrigo has a strong chance, she\u2019s also going to have some big competition in the category. It may even turn into a tight race between another Olivia: British singer Olivia Dean. While The Art of Loving<\/a> was released in September 2025, it has continued to churn out new hits. \u201cIt seems like there\u2019s always a new song emerging from this album,\u201d Stein says. \u201cEven though she won Best New Artist at the 2026 Grammys, it feels like the story is still building, which is really rare for an artist right now,\u201d he adds. Part of Dean\u2019s appeal is also the timelessness of her soul-inflected pop, which could resonate with the broad audience that makes up Grammy voters. \u201cThere may be some vote splitting there,\u201d Stein adds.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith such a packed year, AOTY could be anyone\u2019s prize. Stein doesn\u2019t rule out Rosal\u00eda and her masterful Lux<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s completely in its own space. It\u2019s this album that was really an unexpected sonic breakthrough where the audience really came along with this incredible artistic vision<\/a>, combining all these different sounds and languages in a way that only Rosal\u00eda can do,\u201d he says. The distinctive quality of Lux could be just the thing that helps it nab AOTY. \u201cI could see that being maybe a surprise for some, that\u2019d be really cool to see,\u201d Stein says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2027 Grammys\u2019 Album of the Year category will once again be stacked with a handful of top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[45290,150800,88,350825,369790,216,208144,43169,8246,24463,166812,4915],"class_list":["post-880922","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-phoebe-bridgers","tag-rosalu00eda","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880922","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=880922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}