The Recording Academy has unveiled the nominees for the 2026 Grammy Awards. Leading the field is Kendrick Lamar, who has nine nominations and will be looking to repeat in several categories. Trailing the GNX rapper are Lady Gaga, Jack Antonoff, and Mayhem producer Cirkut, who have seven apiece. Bad Bunny and Sabrina Carpenter are among those with six nominations, and SZA, Turnstile, and Tyler, the Creator each have five nods. See the full list of Grammy nominees below.
Kendrick Lamar swept his categories at the 2025 Grammy Awards, winning wherever “Not Like Us” was nominated. He will be looking to go back-to-back in the Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Rap Performance categories, with “Luther” up for the former two categories and his Clipse collaboration “Chains & Whips” nominated in the latter. Lamar will also be trying to win Album of the Year for the first time, a category in which he has now competed seven times.
Joining Lamar in the Album of the Year race are Bad Bunny, Clipse, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, R&B upstart Leon Thomas, Sabrina Carpenter, and Tyler, the Creator. None of the nominees has ever won the category, although everybody except Leon Thomas, Clipse, and Malice has been nominated in the past. Antonoff’s seven nominations all come from his work for Carpenter and Lamar.
In the Record and Song of the Year fields, Billie Eilish will be looking to win her first Grammy since 2024, and she’ll be doing it with a song that came out that year: Her Hit Me Hard and Soft cut “Wildflower” was serviced as a single this year, making it eligible for the 2026 Grammys. Similarly, Doechii’s five-time-nominated “Anxiety” has been known to fans since 2019, but got a formal release in March.
Several artists will compete across genre categories, and there may be no artist more varied than Turnstile. The band has rock, metal, and alternative music nominations connected to Never Enough. A somewhat surprising nominee for Best Alternative Music Album is Tyler, the Creator, whose second eligible album of the year, Don’t Tap the Glass, secured a nod. The two-time Best Rap Album winner also has three rap nominations, all associated with Chromakopia. Elsewhere, Paramore singer Hayley Williams has four nominations, spanning rock and alternative music categories.
