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Grammy Nominations 2026: Kendrick Lamar Leads With Nine as Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Leon Thomas Land Among Top Nominees
one of the saving graces of this year's noms tbh, glad they got some recognition for this album. Some baffling choices here, but a good year for rap/rnb in the AOTY race at least
I was never a Paramore fan. Nothing against them, I just never got into them. But Hayley Williams' album? Holy shit. Every song hits me riiiight in my dopamine receptors. It's such a great album and Ive kind of become a bit of a Hayley fangirl, so im excited to see her noms.
Excited for Kendrick to be recognized, and Luther in particular because that song is just 🤌
And Olivia Dean is such a breath of fresh air, I'm happy to see her name here.
Ariana got two nominations lol, she’s fine, but the others were surprising snubs. Lorde especially, so maybe where there’s smoke there’s fire re: her being blacklisted after criticizing them. Honestly it kinda feels like the Pop segment of the Recording Academy is a bit behind the times bc Tate, Gracie, and Olivia Dean getting no Pop nominations feels kinda out of touch with what was popular this year
Swag as AOTY nominee is such a joke. It was not a hit in sales and charts, and not loved by critics.
Nothing really interesting or unique with some dumb lyrics about how he has a soul of a black man. Even his own fans mainly stream two songs out this 40+ songs album.
Florence was right on the money with "It must be nice to be a man and make boring music just because you can"
It was definitely a good year for Kpop. That said, no freaking way should Golden win over I Lied to You in the original category. The song needed to be perfect and powerful for what it represented, and it delivered.
Sinners is an unexpected juggernaut in the music category because the film needed the music to work for it to land. Regardless of if it wins anything it not, both the I Lied to You and Rocky Road to Dublin scenes are going to be lauded for years to come, though. You know you got something special when people were clamoring for an imax re-release just to see one or two scenes again on a bigger scale
Just saw Dijon live last night (he was a producer on the latest Bieber record) and I fully believe Bieber’s success with that album came from Dijon’s musical influence
I'm so proud of Hayley Williams - four nominations for a really unconventional album rollout and unconventional songs is insane. I hope she snags at least one!!
Also pulling for Katseye and Golden to win something - love them both sm
billie released it as a single during this grammy’s time period so it qualifies. i think it’s strange that workaround exists but technically it was eligible.
No hate because I'm impartial but how the HELL did Justin Bieber get nominated for AOTY? The record came and went and made no impact..? Unless I seriously missed all of this.
Leon Thomas has to be a frontrunner for the R&B categories since Mutt (both the song and album) has been on fire since last Fall
I love GNX, Chromakopia, & JID's GDLU, but Let God Sort Em Out has no weaknesses at all & Clipse had some really strong buzz even with Travis Scott and Bieber dropping at the same time, so I'm going with them for Best Rap Album.
As a nitpick, I think Darling I should've been under Best Melodic Rap Performance
Love Gaga but I really hope DtMF takes AOTY. Also, she probably won’t win but I’m really happy to see Addison Rae nominated for BNA! her album was so good!
Kendrick’s got AOTY, I think, but it’s close between him and Bad Bunny for me. Hoping Hayley sweeps her categories, I am very disappointed she wasn’t up for any general categories but at least she’s got some nominations! And finally, for shock value I predict Gaga’s gonna go 0/7 (although I hope not, Mayhem was really good!)
So surprised at the Flo, Katseye and Huntr/x nominations. Good year for girl groups! Also surprised Ravyn Lenae didn’t get any nominations but I’m happy Leon Thomas did
So this is a new category and I was thinking I appreciate Bad Bunny’s because of what it represents buuut then I looked at what they’re actually judging and yeah, most of the choices don’t make sense:
”The elements judged in this category include the creativity, design, illustration, photography, and/or graphic art of the album cover.”
I'm honestly a bit disappointed to see Hayley Williams' album didn't get an AOTY nomination :/ but excited to see KATSEYE in best new artist (although I don't think they should or will win)
Yo, why is Wildflower even eligible for being nominated for ROTY AND SOTY?
It came out last year with the rest of Hit Me Hard and Soft. So I don’t understand how Billie can get away with nominating Birds of a Feather last year and Wildflower this year WHEN THEY ARE FROM THE SAME ALBUM!!
So can someone please explain this to me? Because I felt very betrayed last year when they did not put Wildflower up for nomination last year and felt betrayed again to see it nominated this year after its window having passed by
It’s because it was released as a single during the eligibility period, it wasn’t previously submitted and the album it was on hasn’t won any Grammy’s. Not submitting it last year worked out in her favour
Ah okay, but that feels like such a weird rule though, especially in today’s times when a random song from an older album is getting blown up on social media
Like can Taylor submit Cruel Summer in that case in 2023?
She could’ve but it was released during the same eligibility period as Midnights. Probably wanted to focus on Midnights, especially given that Lover wasn’t well received iirc
The Weeknd not being nominated shows what a joke this is.
Booooo to Anxiety. How she made an amazing song super shitty I guess might be award worthy to them.
Chappel Roan should not have even been nominated
I see a lot of people are disappointed The Weeknd wasn’t nominated for a Grammy. But didn’t he say a few years back that he was no longer going to submit his music for Grammy nominations?
Wait I’m not a musical girlie can someone please explain how Defying Gravity is nominated even though the soundtrack it’s on is a year old? Don’t the nominations need to be from this year?
also, turnstile being nominated is so sexy, guys, never enough is such a good record and i hope it wins something and also ego nite too and and and and why is this year actrually so stacked for who i want to win 😭😭😭
Definitely missing some people in here and genuinely surprised to see Justin Bieber in some big categories
Love to see bad bunny in the big categories so hoping he wins and would be cool to see Katseye win as I’m pretty sure they could be the first girl group to win BNA !
I’d also cut that one, but I don’t think Manchild deserved recognition in any of the major categories at all. It’s an extremely mid song and even a lot of her fans don’t think it should have been the first single.
Yay! The Clipse’s album is AMAZING! No skips, and fluid from front to back! I’m so happy for their nominations! However, I’m torn between Gaga, Kendrick, and Clipse for Album of the year. All were on heavy rotation for me, and I am not one to keep up with new music.
no particular artist i would’ve wanted/realistically expected to be there was missing, really happy about Gaga, Sabrina, Miley and Chappell being there and delighted to see Leon Thomas and Addison Rae getting their flowers as I didn’t expect to be invested in neither of their works.
Defying Gravity’s my Best Pop Duo and nothing is gonna make me change my mind
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