{"id":890022,"date":"2026-10-21T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890022\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:56:09","slug":"grammys-2027-predictions-producer-of-the-year-non-classical-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890022\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammys 2027 Predictions: Producer of the Year, Non-Classical Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLeading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 16, \u201cRolling Stone\u201d is breaking down 11 different categories<\/a>. For each, we\u2019re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor someone to claim the Grammy for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, they need to have scored commercial hits or a big album. They also need to wow voters with the story behind the making of an album, according to Cecilia Winter, Editorial Lead of Global Hits at Spotify. \u201cOften the people who win are people who have pulled back the curtain a little bit on their working relationship with the artists that they produced in the eligibility period,\u201d she tells Rolling Stone. \u201cThe folks who close themselves off a little bit more maybe don\u2019t always have the same degree of success.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe strongest contenders in this year\u2019s eligibility period include big names like Andrew Watt<\/a>, who coaxed great late-career albums from Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones, and Miranda Lambert<\/a>, who produced not only her own album but co-produced Ella Langley\u2019s blockbuster Dandelion. Meanwhile, Kenny Beats<\/a> made his bones with Geese and Weezer, Dan Nigro<\/a> seemed pretty happy with Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s latest, and Aaron Dessner<\/a> and Gabe Simon<\/a> helped give Noah Kahan another massive album with The Great Divide. The likelihood of winning just comes down to which story a critical mass of voters find most impressive.<\/p>\n

\t\tProducer of the Year, Non-Classical \u2014 Our Predictions\t<\/p>\n

\n\tKenny Beats (Geese\u2019s Getting Killed, Fcukers\u2019 \u00d6, Weezer\u2019s Weezer, the Lurkers soundtrack)
Aaron Dessner (Noah Kahan\u2019s The Great Divide, Gracie Abrams\u2019 Daughter From Hell)
Miranda Lambert (Ella Langley\u2019s Dandelion and \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d Miranda Lambert\u2019s Crisco)
Dan Nigro (Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, Gracie Abrams\u2019 \u201cLook at My Life\u201d)
Andrew Watt (Brandi Carlile\u2019s Returning to Myself, Paul McCartney\u2019s The Boys of Dungeon Lane, the Rolling Stones\u2019 Foreign Tongues)<\/p>\n

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

\n\tAndrew Watt
Watt seems like a shoo-in. Last year, the producer, who won in this category in 2021, had strong success with Lady Gaga\u2019s Mayhem. Now he\u2019s worked his magic on a Beatle and the Stones. \u201cHaving this newer, younger producer who works across all these different genres help these guys move their sound into their next era, is super cool,\u201d says Winter.<\/p>\n

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

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

\n\tKenny Beats
In the past year, Kenneth Charles Blume III (b.k.a. Kenny Beats) has harnessed Geese\u2019s sound on Getting Killed (including helping them get a choral sample to work against their own music on the album\u2019s title song), as well as Show Me the Body\u2019s hard-hitting banjocore album, Alone Together, songs on Fcukers\u2019 \u00d6, and a good chunk of Weezer\u2019s self-titled gold album. \u201cHe has worked across such a wide range of projects,\u201d Winter says. \u201cI think it would be cool if that was more of the story. Having worked on the Geese project, he had a hit in the indie space, but it was still not a commercial hit in the classic sense of producers who typically bring home these awards.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

\n\tNot only does Miranda Lambert have name recognition, but she produced the biggest song of the year, Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas.\u201d She could score an upset win in this category. \u201cDandelion is a really beautiful album,\u201d Winter says. \u201cI think it would be really cool to get a country artist or country producer in this space for the first time in decades. And Miranda Lambert, in particular, is a cool one because she obviously knows what it is to be a commercial star in country music. She knows what it was to have her own \u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 years ago and has built this really strong foundation of credibility through projects like The Marfa Tapes<\/a> that I think have shown her diversity as an artist. Watching her apply it to an up-and-coming star is really cool.\u201d A nomination for Lambert would also put her in the tiny percentage of women recognized in this category. Previous female candidates include Linda Perry (who\u2019ll try again this year for her work with Dolly Parton and Paris Jackson), and Janet Jackson. No woman has ever won.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIt\u2019s also worth considering the omnipresence of Jack Antonoff<\/a>, who produced his own Bleachers album, Everyone for Ten Minutes, and songs for Lana Del Rey\u2019s upcoming Stove. He also worked on Phoebe Bridgers\u2019 Lost Weekend, alongside a roster of producers including Tony Berg, Ethan Gruska, and Alex G, as well as Bridgers herself. <\/p>\n

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\n\tOther powerhouse contenders include Dessner, who co-produced Noah Kahan\u2019s The Great Divide and Gracie Abrams\u2019 Daughter From Hell, and Simon, who continued his work with Kahan and Koe Wetzel. There\u2019s also Mike Sabath (Raye\u2019s This Music May Contain Hope), D\u2019Mile (Bruno Mars\u2019 The Romantic), Stuart Price (Madonna\u2019s Confessions II), Max Martin, who extended his hit streak with Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande, and Dan Nigro, whose work with Rodrigo and Abrams was exemplary. Even Shooter Jennings\u2019 name could be in the mix: The Grammy-winning producer oversaw Charley Crockett\u2019s buzzy Clovis LP. And don\u2019t rule out last year\u2019s winner, Cirkut (Lady Gaga and Doechii\u2019s \u201cRunway\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tThen there\u2019s Rosal\u00eda\u2019s stunning Lux, which was an achievement in production with the ways she fused pop music with classical and avant-garde influences along with a lyrical polyglot. The credits list more than a dozen producers (including Rosal\u00eda herself) so the viability of a single producer for that album comes down to just how hard they campaign. Winter would also like to see some recognition for producer Blake Slatkin\u2019s work on Ad\u00e9la\u2019s debut album, Prima, and producers Austin Corona and Wyatt Bernard\u2019s contributions to Slayyyter\u2019s Worst Man in America album. \u201cThe music that Slayyyter has crafted this year is a really fascinating and of-the-moment blend of pop, dance, and post-hyper pop. Sometimes it feels like Justice, sometimes it feels like Turnstile. There\u2019s such a wide palette of styles, it would be really cool to see recognition on that side as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 16, \u201cRolling Stone\u201d is breaking down 11 different categories. For…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[135906,109182,302822,88,373138,350825,369790,38760,309279,56397,216],"class_list":["post-890022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-aaron-dessner","tag-andrew-watt","tag-dan-nigro","tag-entertainment","tag-gabe-simon","tag-grammys-2027","tag-grammysfyc2027","tag-jack-antonoff","tag-kenny-beats","tag-miranda-lambert","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890022","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=890022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}