The nominees for the 2026 Grammy Award for Album of the Yr have been introduced. Justin Bieber’s Swag , Lady Gaga’s Mayhem, and Kendrick Lamar’s GNX all have an opportunity to clinch their artists’ first wins within the class after a number of prior nominations. Rounding out the pack are Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out, Leon Thomas’ Mutt, Sabrina Carpenter Man’s Best Friend, and Tyler, the Creator Chromakopia. See all the 2026 Grammy nominations here.
Girl Gaga has now been nominated 5 instances for Album of the Yr; she was beforehand up for the award for 2008’s The Fame, 2009’s The Fame Monster, 2011’s Born This Way, and 2022’s Love for Sale (with Tony Bennett). In the meantime, it’s Lamar’s fifth solo Album of the Yr nod (his contributions to Beyoncé’s Lemonade and 2018’s Black Panther: The Album have been additionally beforehand nominated within the class). It might be each artists’ first time claiming the highest prize.
In truth, 2026 would be the first 12 months a earlier Album of the Yr winner has not been nominated within the class since 2019. Bieber has been up for the award twice, in 2017 for Purpose and in 2022 for Justice, and Carpenter and Dangerous Bunny can every lay declare to 1 prior nod—for final 12 months’s Short n’ Sweet and 2022’s Un Verano Sin Ti, respectively. None of them, nevertheless, has but taken house the trophy.
Tyler, the Creator additionally has an Album of the Yr nomination relationship all the way in which again to 2012, for his work on Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange. Clipse and Thomas are the class’s newcomers, although Pusha T claimed anod in 2022 as a featured artist on Kanye West’s Donda.
Final 12 months’s lineup for Album of the Yr included Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, Charli XCX’s Brat, André 3000’s New Blue Sun, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft, and Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department. Beyoncé took home the prize, making it her first win within the class and lengthening her lead as probably the most embellished artist in Grammys historical past with 35 victories.
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Album of the Yr
Dangerous Bunny – Debí Tirar Más Fotos
Clipse, Pusha T & Malice – Let God Type Em Out
Justin Bieber – Swag
Kendrick Lamar – GNX
Girl Gaga – Mayhem
Leon Thomas – Mutt
Sabrina Carpenter – Man’s Finest Buddy
Tyler, the Creator – Chromakopia
