Kendrick Lamar leads 2026 Grammy nominations, followed by Lady Gaga, Jack Antonoff and Cirkut

Kendrick Lamar leads the 2026 Grammy Award nominations, with the imaginable to instrumentality location 9 trophies.

Three of those 9 nominations are for the biggest awards of the night: record, opus and medium of the year. This marks the 3rd clip he's had simultaneous nominations successful those large categories, and makes him and SZA the archetypal duet partners to person 2 grounds of the twelvemonth nominations.

Lamar has 22 Grammy vocation wins and 66 nominations. GNX is his 5th consecutive workplace medium to beryllium nominated for medium of the year, making him the archetypal solo creator successful Grammy past to bash so. If it wins, it volition beryllium his archetypal triumph successful the category. And it volition beryllium lone the 3rd rap medium to triumph the apical prize, pursuing Lauryn Hill successful 1999 for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and Outkast successful 2004 for Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.

Album of the twelvemonth volition beryllium a archetypal for someone

In fact, nary 1 nominated successful the medium of the twelvemonth class this twelvemonth has ever won it before. Other nominees see Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Justin Bieber's Swag and Sabrina Carpenter's Man's Best Friend.

This is not lone the archetypal clip 3 rap albums person nominated successful the category, but besides lone the 2nd clip an all-Spanish connection medium has made it. The archetypal was besides a Bad Bunny release, 2022's Un Verano Sin Ti.

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Gaga and Antonoff could besides triumph big

Lady Gaga, shaper Jack Antonoff and Canadian producer-songwriter Cirkut travel Lamar, with 7 nominations each.

Similar to Lamar, Gaga is up for song, grounds and medium of the twelvemonth — and it's besides her archetypal clip receiving nominations successful each 3 categories simultaneously. She could people imaginable wins successful the popular solo performance, popular vocal album, creation popular signaling and accepted popular vocal medium categories.

Antonoff is nominated successful the record, medium and opus of the twelvemonth categories twice, for his enactment with Lamar and Sabrina Carpenter. While he's been near retired of the shaper of the twelvemonth contention for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, he's besides nominated for rap opus for the archetypal clip with tv off, his opus with Lamar and Lefty Gunplay.

Bieber is among this year's Grammy nominees, for his medium Swag and songs Daises and Yukon. (Evan Agostini/Invision/The Associated Press)

Canadian connections

Likewise, Cirkut is up for some grounds and opus of the year, twice, for Lady Gaga's Abracadabra and Rosé and Bruno Mars's APT., arsenic good arsenic medium of the twelvemonth and champion creation popular recording.

Justin Bieber has nabbed nominations for champion popular vocal medium and medium of the twelvemonth for Swag, champion popular solo show for Daises and champion R&B show for Yukon. If helium wins, it could people the commencement of an breathtaking comeback twelvemonth for Bieber, who's acceptable to header Coachella successful April 2026.

Drake and Kaytranada earned 1 and 2 nods, respectively. But successful a astonishing crook of events, The Weeknd did not gain immoderate nominations this twelvemonth for his medium Hurry Up Tomorrow, aft famously ending his boycott of the awards amusement astatine past year's ceremony.

Snubs, firsts and surprises

The champion caller creator class promises to beryllium a choky race, with fashionable acts similar planetary miss radical Katseye, Olivia Dean, Leon Thomas and Alex Warren going caput to head. Of enactment from this category, Thomas is having an particularly bully twelvemonth with six nominations, including 1 for medium of the year.

K-pop is decidedly getting the spotlight this year. Rosé, a subordinate of the juggernaut miss radical Blackpink, is the archetypal K-pop creator to person a information for grounds of the year. As well, the blockbuster Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters scored 4 nominations, 3 of which are for the deed opus Golden.

There are a fig of first-time nominees arsenic good this year, including Tate McRae, Zara Larsson and PinkPantheress.

The 2026 Grammy Awards volition aerial connected Sun. Feb. 1, unrecorded from the Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles.

For a implicit database of the 2026 Grammy nominees, click here. Here is simply a partial database of the 2026 nominees:

Record of the year

DtMF, Bad Bunny; Manchild, Sabrina Carpenter; Anxiety, Doechii; Wildflower, Billie Eilish; Abracadabra, Lady Gaga; Luther, Kendrick Lamar with SZA; The Subway, Chappell Roan; APT., Rosé, Bruno Mars.

Album of the year

Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Bad Bunny; Swag, Justin Bieber; Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter; Let God Sort Em Out, Clipse; Mayhem, Lady Gaga; GNX, Kendrick Lamar; Mutt, Leon Thomas; Chromakopia, Tyler, the Creator.

Song of the year

Abracadabra, Lady Gaga; Anxiety, Doechii; APT., Rosé, Bruno Mars; DtMF, Bad Bunny; Golden, [From KPop Demon Hunters], HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI; Luther, Kendrick Lamar, SZA; Manchild, Sabrina Carpenter; Wildflower, Billie Eilish.

Best caller artist

Olivia Dean, Katseye, The Marias, Addison Rae, Sombr, Leon Thomas, Alex Warren, Lola Young.

Producer of the year

Dan Auerbach, Cirkut, Dijon, Blake Mills, Sounwave.

Songwriter of the year

Amy Allen, Edgar Barrera, Jessie Jo Dillon, Tobias Jesso Jr., Laura Veltz.

Best popular solo performance

Daisies, Justin Bieber; Manchild, Sabrina Carpenter; Disease, Lady Gaga; The Subway, Chappell Roan; Messy, Lola Young.

Best popular duo / radical performance

Defying Gravity, Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande; Golden, HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI; Gabriela, KATSEYE; APT., Rosé, Bruno Mars; 30 For 30, SZA, Kendrick Lamar.

Pop vocal album

Swag, Justin Bieber; Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter; Something Beautiful, Miley Cyrus; Mayhem, Lady Gaga; I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2), Teddy Swims.

Best creation popular recording

Bluest Flame, Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco; Abracadabra, Lady Gaga; Midnight Sun, Zara Larsson; Just Keep Watching [From F1® The Movie], Tate McRae; Illegal, PinkPantheress.

Best remixed recording

Abracadabra (Gesaffelstein Remix), Gesaffelstein; Don't Forget About Us, Kaytranada; A Dreams A Dream - Ron Trent Remix, Ron Trent; Galvanize, Chris Lake; Golden - David Guetta REM/X, David Guetta.

Best stone album

Private Music, Deftones; I Quit, Haim; From Zero, Linkin Park; Never Enough, Turnstile; Idols, Yungblud.

Best alternate euphony album 

Sable, Fable, Bon Iver; Songs Of A Lost World, The Cure; Don’t Tap the Glass, Tyler, the Creator; Moisturizer, Wet Leg; Ego Death astatine a Bachelorette Party, Hayley Williams.

Best R&B performance

Yukon, Justin Bieber; It Depends, Chris Brown, Bryson Tiller; Folded, Kehlani; Mutt (Live From NPR's Tiny Desk), Leon Thomas; Heart Of A Woman, Summer Walker.

Best R&B album

BELOVED, Givēon; Why Not More?, Coco Jones; The Crown, Ledisi; Escape Room, Teyana Taylor; Mutt, Leon Thomas.

Best melodic rap

Proud Of Me, Fridayy, Meek Mill; Wholeheartedly, JID, Ty Dolla $ign, 6lack; Luther, Kendrick Lamar, SZA; WeMaj, Terrace Martin, Kenyon Dixon, Rapsody; Somebody Loves Me, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Drake.

Best rap album 

Let God Sort Em Out, Clipse, Pusha T and Malice; Glorious, Glorilla; God Does Like Ugly, JID; GNX, Kendrick Lamar; Chromakopia, Tyler, the Creator.

Best modern state album

Patterns, Kelsea Ballerini; Snipe Hunter, Tyler Childers; Evangeline vs. The Machine, Eric Church; Beautifully Broken, Jelly Roll; Postcards From Texas, Miranda Lambert.

Best accepted state album

Dollar a Day, Charley Crockett; American Romance, Lukas Nelson; Oh What a Beautiful World, Willie Nelson; Hard Headed Woman, Margo Price; Ain’t In It for My Health, Zach Top.

Best people soundtrack for ocular media

How To Train Your Dragon; Severance: Season 2; Sinners; Wicked; The Wild Robot.

Best opus written for ocular media

As Alive arsenic You Need Me to Be [From TRON: Ares], Golden, I Lied to You [From Sinners], Never Too Late [From Elton John: Never Too Late], Pale, Pale Moon [From Sinners], Sinners [From Sinners].

Best medium cover

Chromakopia, Tyler, the Creator; The Crux, Djo; Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Bad Bunny; Glory, Perfume Genius; Moisturizer, Wet Leg.