The Recording Academy has unveiled the nominees for the 2026 Grammy Awards. Main the sector is Kendrick Lamar, who has 9 nominations and can be seeking to repeat in a number of classes. Trailing the GNX rapper are Lady Gaga, Jack Antonoff, and Mayhem producer Cirkut, who’ve seven apiece. Bad Bunny and Sabrina Carpenter are amongst these with six nominations, and SZA, Turnstile, and Tyler, the Creator every have 5 nods. See the complete listing of Grammy nominees under.
Kendrick Lamar swept his classes at the 2025 Grammy Awards, profitable wherever “Not Like Us” was nominated. He can be seeking to go back-to-back within the Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Rap Performance classes, with “Luther” up for the previous two classes and his Clipse collaboration “Chains & Whips” nominated within the latter. Lamar will even be making an attempt to win Album of the 12 months for the primary time, a class through which he has now competed seven occasions.
Becoming a member of Lamar within the Album of the 12 months race are Dangerous Bunny, Clipse, Justin Bieber, Girl Gaga, R&B upstart Leon Thomas, Sabrina Carpenter, and Tyler, the Creator. Not one of the nominees has ever received the class, though all people besides Leon Thomas, Clipse, and Malice has been nominated previously. Antonoff’s seven nominations all come from his work for Carpenter and Lamar.
Within the Document and Track of the 12 months fields, Billie Eilish can be seeking to win her first Grammy since 2024, and he or she’ll be doing it with a track that got here out that yr: Her Hit Me Hard and Soft lower “Wildflower” was serviced as a single this yr, making it eligible for the 2026 Grammys. Equally, Doechii’s five-time-nominated “Anxiousness” has been recognized to followers since 2019, however acquired a proper launch in March.
A number of artists will compete throughout style classes, and there could also be no artist extra diversified than Turnstile. The band has rock, steel, and various music nominations linked to Never Enough. A considerably shocking nominee for Finest Different Music Album is Tyler, the Creator, whose second eligible album of the yr, Don’t Tap the Glass, secured a nod. The two-time Best Rap Album winner additionally has three rap nominations, all related to Chromakopia. Elsewhere, Paramore singer Hayley Williams has 4 nominations, spanning rock and various music classes.
