LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kendrick Lamar is the top nominee for the 2026 Grammy Awards.
Lamar's nine nominations for his album “GNX” are part of a wave of hip-hop albums competing in the Grammy Awards' top categories, including Tyler, the Creator's “Chromakopia” and “Let God Sort Em Out” from Clipse, Pusha T and Malice.
Other top nominees announced Friday include Lady Gaga, producer Jack Antonoff and Sabrina Carpenter.
The Grammy Awards will be presented on February 1 in Los Angeles.
Here is a list of nominees in selected categories.
Album of the Year
“Debi Tirar Mas Photos”, “Bad Bunny”; “Swag”, Justin Bieber; Man's Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter; “Let God Handle Them” by Clipse, Pusha T and Malice; “Mayhem”, Lady Gaga; “GNX”, Kendrick Lamar; “Mutt”, Leon Thomas; “Chromocopy” by Tyler, the Creator.
Record of the year
“DtMF”, “Bad Bunny”; “Manchild”, Sabrina Carpenter; “Anxiety”, Doechi; “Wildflower”, Billie Eilish; “Abracadabra” by Lady Gaga; “Luther,” SZA's Kendrick Lamar; “Metro”, Chappell Roan; “APT.”, Rosé and Bruno Mars.
Song of the Year (Songwriter Award)
“Abracadabra” by Henry Walter, Lady Gaga and Andrew Watt; “Anxiety” by Jayla Hickmon; “APT.”, Amy Allen, Christopher Brody Brown, Roger Chahayed, Henry Walter, Omer Fedi, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Chae Young Park and Theron Thomas; “DtMF” – Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, Scott Dittrich, Benjamin Falik, Hugo Rene Sencion and Tyler Thomas Spry; “Gold” – EJAI and Mark Sonnenblick; “Luther” Jack Antonoff, Roshvita Larisha Bacha, Matthew Bernard, Inc., Scott Bridgeway, Sam Dew, Kendrick Lamar, Marc Anthony Spears, Solana Rowe and Kamasi Washington; Manchild, Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff and Sabrina Carpenter; “Wildflower”, Billie Eilish O'Connell and Finneas O'Connell.
Best New Artist
Olivia Dean; Katsy; Maria; Addison Rae; gloomy; Leon Thomas; Alex Warren; Lola Young.
Songwriter of the Year
Amy Allen; Edgar Barrera; Jessie Jo Dillon; Tobias Jesso Jr.; Laura Weltz
Best Pop Solo Performance
“Daisies”, Justin Bieber; “Manchild”, Sabrina Carpenter; “Disease”, Lady Gaga; “Metro”, Chappell Roan; “Dirty” by Lola Young.
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
“Defying Gravity” by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande; “Golden,” HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI; “Gabriela”, Catsie; “APT.”, Rosé and Bruno Mars, “30 for 30”, SZA with Kendrick Lamar.
Best Rap Performance
“Outside,” Cardi B; “Chains & Whips,” Clipse, Pusha T and Malice featuring Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell Williams; “Anxiety”, Doechi; “TV Off,” Kendrick Lamar featuring Lefty Gunplay; “Honey I Am,” Tyler, the Creator featuring Tizo Touchdown.
Best 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)” by Teddy Swims.
Best Rap Album
“Let God Handle Them” by Clipse, Pusha T and Malice; “Glorious”, GloRilla; God Loves Ugly, JID, GNX, Kendrick Lamar, Chromacopy, Tyler, The Creator.
Best Contemporary Country Album
“Patterns”, Kelsea Ballerini; “Snipe Hunter” by Tyler Chilers; Evangeline vs. the Machine, Eric Church; “Beautifully Broken,” Jelly Roll; Postcards from Texas by Miranda Lambert.
Best Traditional Country Album
“A Dollar a Day” by Charlie Crockett; “American Romance”, Lukas Nelson; “Oh, What a Wonderful World,” Willie Nelson; “A Woman with a Steady Head” by Margo Price; “It's not for my health,” Zac Tope.
Best R&B Album
“Beloved”, Giveon; “Why Not More?”, Coco Jones; “Crown”, Ledisi; “Escape Room”, Teyana Taylor; “Mutt”, Leon Thomas.
Best Dance/Electronic Album
“EUSEXUA”, FKA branches; “Ten days”, Fred again…; “Think It Up,” PinkPantheress; “Inhale/Exhale”, Rufus du Sol; “Damn Skrillex, you think it’s Andy Warhol, but no UR!! 3″, Skrillex
Best Rock Album
“private music”, Deftones; “I'm leaving”, HAIM; “From Zero”, Linkin Park; “Never Enough,” Turnstile; “Idols”, YUNGBLUD
Best Alternative Music Album
“Sable, Fable”, Bon Iver; “Songs of a Lost World”, The Cure; “Don't Knock on the Glass” by Tyler, the Creator; “Moisturizer”, “Wet foot”; Bachelorette Ego Death by Hayley Williams.
Best Jazz Vocal Album
“Elemental” Dee Dee Bridgewater and Bill Charlap; “We insist on 2025!” Terri Lyne Carrington and Christy Dashiell; “Portrait”, Samara Joy; “Fly”, Michael Mayo; “Live in Las Vegas Vica,” Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold and Rachel Eckroth.
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
“Trilogy 3 (Live)”, Chick Corea, Christian McBride and Brian Blade; Sullivan Fortner's “Southern Nights” starring Peter Washington and Marcus Gilmore; “Belonging,” Branford Marsalis Quartet; John Patitucci's “Falling Down” starring Chris Potter and Brian Blade; “Buckle up,” “Yellow Jackets.”
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
“Winter Songs”, Leila Biali; “The Gift of Love”, Jennifer Hudson; “Who Believes in Angels?”, Elton John and Brandi Carlile; “Harlequin”, Lady Gaga; “A Matter of Time”, Laufey; The Secret of Life: Partners Volume 2 by Barbra Streisand.
Best Gospel Album
Sunny Days, Yolanda Adams; “Tasha”, Tasha Cobbs Leonard; “Live Breathe Fight,” Tamela Mann; “Only on the Road (Live),” Ty Tribbett; “My Heart”, Darrell Walls, PJ Morton.
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
“Child of God 2”, Forrest Frank; “Koritos, Volume 1”, Israel and the New Breed; King of Hearts, Brandon Lake; “Reconstruction”, Lecrae; Let the Church Sing by Toren Wells.
Best Latin Pop Album
“Cosa Nuestra”, Rau Alejandro; “Bogota (Deluxe)”, Andres Cepeda; “Tropicoqueta”, Karol J.; “Canchonera”, Natalia Lafourcade; – So what now? Alejandro Sanz.
Best Latin Urban Album
“I should have posted more photos”, “Bad Bunny”; “Mixtape”, J. Balvin; “FERXXO Vol. “Naiki”, Niki Nicole, “EUB Deluxe”, Thunder, “Symphonic (Live)”, Yandel.
Best Mexican Music Album
“Mala Mia”, Fuerza Regida, Grupo Frontera; “And what will happen”, Grupo Frontera; “Sin Rodeos”, Paola Jara, “Palabra De To (Seca), Karin Leon; “Bobby Pulido and friends Una Tuya and Una Mia – Por La Puerta Grande (Live)”, Bobby Pulido.
Best African Music Performance
“Love”, Burna Boy; “With You,” Davido featuring Omah Lay; “Hope and Love”, Eddie Kenzo and Mehran Mateen; “Gimme Dat,” Ira Starr featuring Wizkid; “Press 2 Start”, Tayla.
Best Reggae Album
“Treasure of Self-Love” by Lila Icke; “Heart and Soul,” Vybz Kartel; “BLXXD & FYAH”, Keznamdi; “From the Inside”, Mortimer; “There's No Place Like Home” by Jesse Royal.
Best Spoken Word Poetry Album
“Hurricane on the Heels: Healed People Don’t Do This,” Queen of Sheba; “Black Shaman”, Mark Marcel; “Pages”, Omari Hardwick and Anthony Hamilton; “Sol Williams Meets Carlos Niño and Friends at Treepeople”, Saul Williams, Carlos Niño and Friends; “Words for Days Volume 1” by Mad Skillz.
Best Comedy Album
The Dead Years, Bill Burr; “PostMortem”, Sarah Silverman; “Single Woman” by Ali Wong; “What Happened Was…”, Jamie Foxx; “Your Friend Nate Bargatze” by Nate Bargatze.
Best Soundtrack Collection for Visual Media
“Total Unknown”, Timothée Chalamet; “F1 The Album”, various artists; “KPop Demon Hunters”, various artists, “Sinners”, various artists; “The Wicked”, various performers.
Best Song Written for Visual Media
“As Alive as I Need to Be” from Tron: Ares); “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters”, “I Lied to You” from “Sinners”; “Never Too Late” from Elton John: It's Never Late; “Pale, Pale Moon” from Sinners; “Sinners” from “Sinners”.
Best Soundtrack for Visual Media (Composer Award)
How to Train Your Dragon, John Powell; “Break: Season 2,” Theodore Shapiro; “Sinners”, Ludwig Göransson; “Wicked,” John Powell and Stephen Schwartz; “Wild Robot” by Kris Bowers.
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Dan Auerbach; Circus; Dijon; Blake Mills; Solar wave.
Best Music Video
“Young Lion”, Garden; “Manchild”, Sabrina Carpenter; “So be it,” Clips; “Anxiety”, Doechi; “Love”, OK, go.
Best Musical Film
“Virgin”; Ray, Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Ruthless, The Music of John Williams; “In parts.”
Best Album Cover
“Chromocopy”; “Essence”; “I should have taken more photos”; “Glory”; “Moisturizer”
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