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Let the GRAMMYS season begin! The 2026 GRAMMYs nominations have arrived, honoring some of the year's most exciting artists and releases.
Across 12 Fields and 95 Categories, there are several first-time nominees — including ROSÉ, Tate McRae, YUNGBLUD, PinkPantheress, and even actor Timothée Chalamet — and artists who are celebrating their first nominations for different awards. And with two new Categories added for the 2026 GRAMMYS, this year's nominations list also includes inaugural nominees for Best Album Cover and Best Traditional Country Album.
Kendrick Lamar is this year’s most nominated artist with nine nominations. He's followed by Cirkut, Jack Antonoff and Lady Gaga, who each earned seven nods; Bad Bunny, Leon Thomas, Sabrina Carpenter, and Serban Ghenea, with six nominations each; and Andrew Watt, Clipse, Pusha T & Malice, Doechii, Sounwave, SZA, Turnstile, and Tyler, The Creator, who each earned five.
Below, check out some of the other interesting firsts and major feats to come out of the 2026 GRAMMYS nominations — and some of the history-making moments that could happen on Music's Biggest Night.
Notable Firsts
While Album Of The Year is always one of the night's most anticipated Categories, it's especially thrilling this year, as there are a number of ways GRAMMYS history could be made (more on that later). The nominations themselves are historic; for the first time ever, three albums are nominated simultaneously in Album Of The Year and Best Rap Album: Clipse, Pusha T & Malice's Let God Sort Em Out; Kendrick Lamar's GNX; and Tyler, The Creator's CHROMAKOPIA.
Lamar's Album Of The Year nomination lands him another first, as he's the first solo artist to receive Album Of The Year nods for five consecutive studio albums.
Also nominated for Album Of The Year is Bad Bunny's DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, which helped the reggaeton star add to his GRAMMYS legacy. Along with the AOTY nomination, “DtMF” earned Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year nods, marking only the second time in GRAMMYS history that an all-Spanish-language album and all-Spanish-language songs are nominated in those Categories. He is also the first Spanish-language artist to be nominated in all three Categories simultaneously.
K-pop joins the history-making fun thanks to ROSÉ and KPop Demon Hunters. ROSÉ's hit collaboration with Bruno Mars, "APT.," and HUNTR/X's chart-topping KPop Demon Hunters smash, "Golden," are the first songs by K-pop artists to be nominated for Song Of The Year, with "APT." also becoming the first song by a K-pop artist to be nominated for Record Of The Year. Both songs are also up for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, marking another milestone: the first time two songs by K-pop artists have been nominated in that Category in the same year.
The inaugural Best Traditional Country Album Category spawned an interesting GRAMMY moment for Willie Nelson, who is nominated for his tribute to Rodney Crowell, Oh What A Beautiful World. With his son Lukas Nelson also receiving a nomination in the Category for American Romance, it's the first time Willie is nominated alongside one of his seven children.
Over in the Rock, Metal & Alternative Music Field, Paramore's Hayley Williams received her first nods as a solo artist for her own work, with four nominations this year: Best Rock Performance ("Mirtazapine"), Best Rock Song ("Glum"), Best Alternative Music Performance ("Parachute"), and Best Alternative Music Album ("Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party"). (She previously received one solo nomination as a featured performer on B.o.B's "Airplanes, Pt. II" at the 2011 GRAMMYS, and has won three GRAMMYS for her work with Paramore.)
Perhaps the most surprising first of the 2026 GRAMMYS nominations goes to none other than the Dalai Llama himself. Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama earned a nomination for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording, marking the first time a Dalai Llama has received a GRAMMYS nomination.
Potential History-Making Moments
In addition to all of the first-time feats among the 2026 GRAMMYS nominations, there are a number of wins that could land in the GRAMMYS history books, too.
With his nine nominations Kendrick Lamar could become the rapper with the most wins at the 2026 GRAMMYS. As of press time, he has 22 wins, ranking third among rappers behind Jay-Z (25) and Kanye West (24), meaning he needs four wins to take the top spot.
If Lamar were to win Record Of The Year or Song Of The Year, it would be his second year in a row winning in those Categories, as he took home golden gramophones for both for "Not Like Us" at the 2025 GRAMMYS. If he were to win Album Of The Year for GNX, it would add another milestone to his GRAMMY resume: he'd become the first solo male rapper to win in the Category.
Bad Bunny could also make history if DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS is crowned Album Of The Year, as it would be the first all-Spanish-language album to win the coveted Category.
Notably, no matter who wins Album Of The Year, it will be their first victory in the Category. While Bad Bunny, Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, and Tyler, The Creator have all previously received Album Of The Year nominations, none of them have won; Clipse, Pusha T & Malice and Leon Thomas are first-time nominees in the Category.
With so many exciting firsts and possible big moments, the 2026 GRAMMYS are undoubtedly going to be a ceremony to remember. Be sure to tune in on Feb. 1, 2026 when the 68th GRAMMY Awards air live on CBS and Paramount+!