For the second year in a row, Kendrick Lamar is the top nominee for the Grammy Awards — this time in nine categories, including Album of the Year for GNX and both Song and Record of the Year for “luther” featuring SZA. The 68th annual edition of the awards will be held Feb. 1 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and broadcast live on CBS.
In Album of the Year, Lamar will compete against Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM, Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Justin Bieber’s SWAG, Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out, Leon Thomas’ MUTT and Tyler, the Creator’s CHROMAKOPIA.
Thomas’ six nominations include Best New Artist, where he will battle Olivia Dean, sombr, Alex Warren, the Marías, Lola Young, Addison Rae and KATSEYE. Doechii earned five nods, including Record and Song of the Year for “Anxiety.” Producer Cirkut racked up seven nominations for his contributions to MAYHEM and ROSÉ & Bruno Mars’ “APT.,” which will vie for both Record and Song of the Year.
Tyler, the Creator, Clipse, SZA, producers Andrew Watt and Sounwave and rising underground rock band Turnstile all have five nominations. Bieber, Tyler Childers, Jesse Wells, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton scored four a piece.
Although he wasn’t nominated for Producer of the Year — Non Classical, a category he’s won three times previously, Jack Antonoff becomes the first producer/songwriter to ever earn nominations in Album, Song and Record the Year with two different artists in the same year (Carpenter and Lamar).
In Best Rock Album, Deftones’ private music is nominated alongside Haim’s I Quit, Linkin Park’s From Zero, Turnstile’s Never Enough and Yungblud’s Idols. Best Rock Performance nominees include Amyl and the Sniffers (“U Should Not Be Doing That”), Linkin Park (“The Emptiness Machine”), Turnstile (“NEVER ENOUGH”), Hayley Williams (“Mirtazapine”) and Yungblud (“Changes” from the Black Sabbath farewell concert in July).
Bon Iver, the Cure, Wet Leg and Williams each also received multiple nominations in the Alternative categories, with Tyler, the Creator scoring an unusual Best Alternative Music Album nod for Don’t Tap the Glass, which was released just eight months after CHROMAKOPIA.
Elsewhere, Nine Inch Nails’ TRON: Ares banger “As Alive As You Need Me To Be” leads the Best Song Written for Visual Media field, which also features the inescapable “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters and Elton John and Brandi Carlile’s documentary title track Never Too Late.
Visit Grammy.com for the complete list of nominees. See details for the big four categories below.
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
Record of the Year
“DtMF,” Bad Bunny
“Manchild,” Sabrina Carpenter
“Anxiety,” Doechii
“WILDFLOWER,” Billie Eilish
“Abracadabra,” Lady Gaga
“luther,” Kendrick Lamar featuring SZA
“The Subway,” Chappell Roan
“APT.,” ROSÉ & Bruno Mars
Song of the Year
“Abracadabra,” Henry Walter, Lady Gaga and Andrew Watt, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
“Anxiety,” Jaylah Hickmon, songwriter (Doechii)
“APT.,” Amy Allen, Christopher Brody Brown, Rogét Chahayed, Henry Walter, Omer Fedi, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Chae Young Park & Theron Thomas, songwriters (ROSÉ & Bruno Mars)
“DtMF,” Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, Scott Dittrich, Benjamin Falik, Roberto José Rosado Torres, Marco Daniel Borrero, Hugo René Sención Sanabria and Tyler Thomas Spry, songwriters (Bad Bunny)
“Golden” (from KPop Demon Hunters), EJAE and Mark Sonnenblick, songwriters (HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI)
“luther,” Jack Antonoff, Roshwita Larisha Bacha, Matthew Bernard, Ink, Scott Bridgeway, Sam Dew, Kendrick Lamar, Mark Anthony Spears, Solána Rowe and Kamasi Washington, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar featuring SZA)
“Manchild,” Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter, songwriters (Sabrina Carpenter)
“WILDFLOWER,” Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)
Best New Artist
Olivia Dean
KATSEYE
The Marías
Addison Rae
sombr
Leon Thomas
Alex Warren
Lola Young
