These Grammys didn’t scale anything back when it came to this year’s nominations.
For the 2026 ceremony—hosted by Trevor Noah Feb. 1—the Recording Academy released its full list of nominees. Chock-full of old and new faces hoping to bring home their own gilded gramophone, music’s biggest night is sure to end on a high note.
Heading into nomination day on Nov. 7, some of the artists expected to bring home the highest number of nods included Sabrina Carpenter for her album Man’s Best Friend, Kendrick Lamar for GNX, Lady Gaga and her album Mayhem as well as future Super Bowl performer Bad Bunny for DeBí TiRaR MáS FOTos.
In fact, many of these artists were expected to find themselves nominated in multiple of the award show’s three biggest categories: Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year.
As for one of the other most exciting categories—Best New Artist—musicians such as Role Model, Olivia Dean, Lola Yung, Megan Moroney, and Yungblud were among the names mentioned in many of the Grammy predictions.
