The 2026 Grammy Awards are just around the corner, coming to CBS and Paramount+ With Showtime from 8 p.m. Eastern this Sunday, February 1. Below, get caught up on the full list of nominees announced back in November. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)
Kendrick Lamar leads the field with nine nominations and will be looking to repeat in several categories. Trailing the GNX rapper are Lady Gaga, Jack Antonoff, and Mayhem producer Cirkut, with seven apiece. Bad Bunny and Sabrina Carpenter are among those with six nominations, and SZA, Turnstile, and Tyler, the Creator each have five nods.
The Recording Academy has been drip-feeding performer reveals in the weeks leading up to the ceremony. The lineup includes those multi-nominees Gaga, Carpenter, and Tyler, as well as Clipse, who are nominated four times this year and will perform with Let God Sort Em Out producer Pharrell Williams. Expect additional songs from Justin Bieber (who also has four nods), Reba McEntire, and Lauryn Hill—performing a tribute to D’Angelo and Roberta Flack—plus all of this year’s Best New Artist nominees.
Kendrick Lamar, who is not slated to perform at the show, 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 and Clipse 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 (and Best Music Video–nominated visual) in March.
Several artists will compete across genre categories, and there may be none 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, for his second eligible album of the year, Don’t Tap the Glass. 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.
As usual, there are plenty of first-time nominees. Among the notable first-timers are Dijon, who is up for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, and Album of the Year (for his contributions to Justin Bieber’s Swag); neotraditional country revivalist Zach Top; pop favorite Addison Rae; British singer, songwriter, and producer PinkPantheress; and “Messy” artist Lola Young.
There are also numerous acts looking to win a Grammy for the first time or the first time in a long time. The Cure are up for Best Alternative Music Album for their 2024 comeback effort, Songs of a Lost World, and the single “Alone” is in contention for Best Alternative Music Performance. It’s the first time since the 2001 Grammys that Robert Smith’s band has been nominated and would be its first-ever win.
