The 2026 GRAMMY Awards mark the 68th edition of the event, are right around the corner - taking place on Sunday 1st February 2026. 

See below for who has been nominated in each category and who we are rooting to win, we will update this if anyone wins! Please let us know if we missed anyone. For full list of nominees check out the website:

Updated: 02/12/2025


General Field
Record Of The Year:  Award to the Artist(s), Album Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s), and/or Mixer(s), and Mastering Engineer(s) if other than the artist.
  • APT. - ROSÉ, Bruno Mars / Rogét Chahayed, Cirkut, Omer Fedi & Bruno Mars, producers; Bryce Bordone, Serban Ghenea, Charles Moniz & Julian Vasquez, engineers/mixers; Chris Gehringer, mastering engineer

Song Of The Year: A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.
  • APT. / Amy Allen, Christopher Brody Brown, Rogét Chahayed,Omer Fedi, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Chae Young Park, Theron Thomas & Henry Walter, songwriters (ROSÉ, Bruno Mars)
  • Golden from KPop Demon Hunters / EJAE & Mark Sonnenblick, songwriters (HUNTR/X:EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI)

Best New Artist: An artist whose eligibility-year release(s) achieved a breakthrough into the public consciousness and notably impacted the musical landscape.
  • KATSEYE
  • Lola Young

Field 1: Pop & Dance/Electronic
Best Pop Solo Performance: For new vocal or instrumental pop recordings. Singles or Tracks only.
  • Messy - Lola Young

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: For new vocal or instrumental duo/group or collaborative pop recordings. Singles or Tracks only.
  • Golden from KPop Demon Hunters - HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI
  • Gabriela - KATSEYE
  • APT - ROSÉ, Bruno Mars

Field 3: R&B, Rap & Spoken Word Poetry
Best R&B Performance: For new vocal or instrumental R&B recordings.
  • Folded - Kehlani

Best R&B Song: A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.
  • Folded / Darius Dixson, Andre Harris, Donovan Knight, Don Mills, Kehlani Parrish, Khris Riddick-Tynes & Dawit Kamal Wilson, songwriters (Kehlani)

Field 4: Jazz, Traditional Pop, Contemporary Instrumental & Musical Theater
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new traditional pop recordings.
  • A Matter Of Time - Laufey

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new contemporary instrumental recordings.
  • Brightside - ARKAI
  • Shayan - Charu Suri

Field 7: Latin, Global, Reggae & New Age, Ambient, or Chant
Best Global Music Performance: For new vocal or instrumental Global music recordings.
  • Shrini's Dream - Live - Shakti
  • Daybreak - Anoushka Shankar Featuring Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar

Best African Music Performance
  • PUSH 2 START - Tyla

Best Global Music Album: For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental Global Music recordings.
  • Sounds Of Kumbha - Siddhant Bhatia
  • Mind Explosion - 50th Anniversary Tour Live - Shakti
  • Chapter III: We Return To Light - Anoushka Shankar Featuring Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar

Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album: For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental new age recordings.
  • Into The Forest - Jahnavi Harrison

Field 8: Children’s, Comedy, Audio Books, Visual Media & Music Video/Film
Best Comedy Album: For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new recordings.
  • Single Lady - Ali Wong

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media: Award to the principal artist(s) and/or ‘in studio’ producer(s) of a majority of the tracks on the album. In the absence of both, award to the one or two individuals proactively responsible for the concept and musical direction of the album and for the selection of artists, songs and producers, as applicable. Award also goes to appropriately credited music supervisor(s).
  • KPop Demon Hunters - (Various Artists) / Spring Aspers & Dana Sano, compilation producers; Ian Eisendrath, music supervisor

Best Song Written For Visual Media: A Songwriter(s) award. For a song (melody & lyrics) written specifically for a motion picture, television, video games or other visual media, and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year. 
  • Golden from KPop Demon Hunters - EJAE & Mark Sonnenblick, songwriters (HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI)

Field 11: Classical
Best Opera Recording: Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s) and Principal Soloists, and to the Composer and Librettist (if applicable) of a world premiere Opera recording only.
  • Huang Ruo: An American Soldier - Carolyn Kuan, conductor; Hannah Cho, Alex DeSocio, Nina Yoshida Nelsen & Brian Vu; Adam Abeshouse, Silas Brown & Doron Schachter, producers (American Composers Orchestra; David Henry Hwang)

Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor when applicable.
  • Price: Piano Concerto In One Movement In D Minor - Han Chen; John Jeter, conductor (Malmö Opera Orchestra)
  • Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos - Yo-Yo Ma; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
  • Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works - Yuja Wang; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)