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    Grammy Nominations 2026: Kendrick Lamar Leads With Nine, Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny & Sabrina Carpenter Among Top Contenders

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    Grammy Nominations 2026: Kendrick Lamar Leads With Nine, Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny & Sabrina Carpenter Among Top Contenders
    Grammy Nominations 2026: Kendrick Lamar Leads With Nine, Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny & Sabrina Carpenter Among Top Contenders

    Music’s biggest night just got its contenders — and it’s a defining year for both hip-hop and pop.

    The 2026 Grammy nominations see Kendrick Lamar once again at the forefront with nine nods, reaffirming his status as one of the decade’s most dominant voices. Close behind, Lady Gaga makes a grand return with seven nominations, tying with producers Jack Antonoff and Cirkut, while Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter, and breakout talent Leon Thomas each score six, rounding out a fiercely competitive field of frontrunners.

    With 95 categories spanning every corner of the music landscape, this year’s lineup strikes a balance between genre-bending innovation and mainstream power. From global superstars to fresh new voices, the nominations reflect an industry in flux — one where boundary-pushing artistry and chart-topping success finally meet in equal measure.

    Keep reading for the complete list of 2026 Grammy nominations.

    Record of the Year

    • “DtMF” – Bad Bunny
    • “Manchild” – Sabrina Carpenter
    • “Anxiety” – Doechii
    • “Wildflower” – Billie Eilish
    • “Abracadabra” – Lady Gaga
    • “Luther” – Kendrick Lamar With SZA
    • “The Subway” – Chappell Roan
    • “APT.” – Rosé, Bruno Mars

    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, Pusha T & Malice
    • Mayhem – Lady Gaga
    • GNX – Kendrick Lamar
    • Mutt – Leon Thomas
    • Chromakopia – Tyler, the Creator

    Song of the Year

    • “Abracadabra”
    • “Anxiety”
    • “APT.”
    • “DtMF”
    • “Golden [From “KPop Demon Hunters”]”
    • “Luther”
    • “Manchild”
    • “Wildflower”

    Best New Artist

    • Olivia Dean
    • Katseye
    • The Marias
    • Addison Rae
    • Sombr
    • Leon Thomas
    • Alex Warren
    • Lola Young

    Producer of the Year (Non-Classical)

    • Dan Auerbach
    • Cirkut
    • Dijon
    • Blake Mills
    • Sounwave

    Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

    • Amy Allen
    • Edgar Barrera
    • Jessie Jo Dillon
    • Tobias Jesso Jr.
    • Laura Veltz

    Best Pop Solo Performance

    • “Daisies” — Justin Bieber
    • “Manchild” — Sabrina Carpenter
    • “Disease” — Lady Gaga
    • “The Subway” — Chappell Roan
    • “Messy” — Lola Young

    Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

    • “Defying Gravity” – Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande
    • “Golden [From “KPop Demon Hunters”]” – HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami
    • “Gabriela” – Katseye
    • “APT.” – Rosé, Bruno Mars
    • “30 for 30” – SZA With Kendrick Lamar

    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) – Teddy Swims

    Best Dance/Electronic Recording

    • “No Cap” — Disclosure & Anderson .Paak
    • “Victory Lap” — Fred Again.., Skepta, & PlaqueBoyMax
    • “Space Invader” — Kaytranada
    • “Voltage” — Skrillex
    • “End of Summer” — Tame Impala

    Best Dance Pop Recording

    • “Bluest Flame” – Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco
    • “Abracadabra” — Lady Gaga
    • “Midnight Sun” – Zara Larsson
    • “Just Keep Watching (From “F1 The Movie”)”
    • “Illegal” – PinkPantheress

    Best Dance/Electronic Album

    • Eusexua — FKA Twigs
    • Ten Days — Fred Again..
    • Fancy That — PinkPantheress
    • Inhale / Exhale — Rüfüs Du Sol
    • F*** U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! <3 — Skrillex

    Best Remixed Recording

    • “Abracadabra (Gesaffelstein Remix)” — Gesaffelstein, remixer (Lady Gaga, Gesaffelstein)
    • “Don’t Forget About Us” — Kaytranada, remixer (Mariah Carey & Kaytranada)
    • “A Dreams A Dream – Ron Trent Remix” — Ron Trent, remixer (Soul II Soul)
    • “Galvanize” — Chris Lake, remixer (The Chemical Brothers & Chris Lake)
    • “Golden – David Guetta REM/X” — David Guetta, remixer (HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey
    • Nuna, Rei Ami)

    Best Rock Performance

    • “U Should Not Be Doing That” — Amyl and the Sniffers
    • “The Emptiness Machine” — Linkin Park
    • “Never Enough” — Turnstile
    • “Mirtazapine” — Hayley Williams
    • “Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back to the Beginning” — Yungblud Featuring Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman, II

    Best Metal Performance

    • “Night Terror” — Dream Theater
    • “Lachryma” — Ghost
    • “Emergence” — Sleep Token
    • “Soft Spine” —Spiritbox
    • “Birds” — Turnstile

    Best Rock Song

    • “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, songwriters (Nine Inch Nails)
    • “Caramel” – Vessel1 & Vessel2, songwriters (Sleep Token)
    • “Glum” – Daniel James & Hayley Williams, songwriters (Hayley Williams)
    • “Never Enough” – Daniel Fang, Franz Lyons, Pat McCrory, Meg Mills & Brendan Yates, songwriters (Turnstile)
    • “Zombie” – Dominic Harrison & Matt Schwartz, songwriters (Yungblud)

    Best Rock Album

    • Private Music — Deftones
    • I Quit — Haim
    • From Zero — Linkin Park
    • Never Enough — Turnstile
    • Idols — Yungblud

    Best Alternative Music Performance

    • “Everything Is Peaceful Love” — Bon Iver
    • “Alone” — The Cure
    • “Seein’ Stars” —Turnstile
    • “Mangetout” — Wet Leg
    • “Parachute” — Hayley Williams

    Best Alternative Music Album

    • Sable, Fable – Bon Iver
    • Songs of a Lost World – The Cure
    • Don’t Tap the Glass – Tyler, the Creator
    • Moisturizer – Wet Leg
    • Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party – Hayley Williams

    Best R&B Performance

    • “Yukon” – Justin Bieber
    • “It Depends” – Chris Brown Featuring Bryson Tiller
    • “Folded” – Kehlani
    • “Mutt (Live From NPR’s Tiny Desk)” – Leon Thomas
    • “Heart of a Woman” – Summer Walker

    Best Traditional R&B Performance

    • “Here We Are” — Durand Bernarr
    • “Uptown” — Lalah Hathaway
    • “Love You Too” — Ledisi
    • “Crybaby” — SZA
    • “Vibes Don’t Lie” — Leon Thomas

    Best R&B Song

    • “Folded” — Kehlani
    • “Heart of a Woman” — Summer Walker
    • “It Depends” — Chris Brown Featuring Bryson Tiller
    • “Overqualified” — Durand Bernarr
    • “Yes It Is” — Leon Thomas

    Best Progressive R&B Album

    • Bloom — Durand Bernarr
    • Adjust Brightness — Bilal
    • Love on Digital — Destin Conrad
    • Access All Areas — Flo
    • Come as You Are — Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon

    Best R&B Album

    • Beloved— Giveon
    • Why Not More? — Coco Jones
    • The Crown — Ledisi
    • Escape Room — Teyana Taylor
    • Mur — Leon Thomas

    Best Rap Performance

    • “Outside” — Cardi B
    • “Chains & Whips” — Clipse, Pusha T & Malice Featuring Kendrick Lamar &
    • Pharrell Williams
    • “Anxiety” — Doechii
    • “TV Off” — Kendrick Lamar Featuring Lefty Gunplay
    • “Darling, I” — Tyler, the Creator Featuring Teezo Touchdown

    Best Melodic Rap Performance

    • “Proud of Me” — Fridayy Featuring Meek Mill
    • “Wholeheartedly” — JID Featuring Ty Dolla $ign & 6Lack
    • “Luther” — Kendrick Lamar With SZA
    • “WeMaj” — Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon Featuring Rapsody
    • “Somebody Loves Me” — Partynextdoor & Drake

    Best Rap Song

    • “Anxiety” — Doechii
    • “The Birds Don’t Sing” — Clipse, Pusha T & Malice Featuring John Legend & Voices of Fire
    • “Sticky” — Tyler, the Creator Featuring GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil Wayne
    • “TGIF” — GloRilla
    • “TV Off” —Kendrick Lamar feat. Lefty Gunplay

    Best Rap Album

    • Let God Sort Em Out – Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
    • Glorious – GloRilla
    • God Does Like Ugly – JID
    • GNX – Kendrick Lamar
    • Chromakopia – Tyler, the Creator

    Best Spoken Word Poetry Album

    • A Hurricane in Heels: healed people don’t act like that (partially recorded live @City Winery & other places) — Queen Sheba
    • Black Shaman — Marc Marcel
    • Pages — Omari Hardwick & Anthony Hamilton
    • Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at Treepeople — Saul Williams, Carlos Niño & Friends
    • Words for Days Vol. 1 — Mad Skillz

    Best Jazz Performance

    • “Noble Rise” — Lakecia Benjamin Featuring Immanuel Wilkins & Mark Whitfield
    • “Windows – Live” — Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade
    • “Peace of Mind / Dreams Come True” — Samara Joy
    • “Four” — Michael Mayo
    • “All Stars Lead to You – Live” — Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim,
    • Keyon Harrold & Rachel Eckroth

    Best Jazz Vocal Album

    • Elemental — Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap
    • We Insist 2025! — Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell
    • Portrait — Samara Joy
    • Fly — Michael Mayo
    • Live at Vic’s Las Vegas — Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim,
    • Keyon Harrold & Rachel Eckroth

    Best Jazz Instrumental Album

    • Trilogy 3 (Live) — Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade
    • Southern Nights — Sullivan Fortner Featuring Peter Washington & Marcus Gilmore
    • Belonging — Branford Marsalis Quartet
    • Spirit Fall — John Patitucci Featuring Chris Potter & Brian Blade
    • Fasten Up — Yellowjackets

    Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

    • Orchestrator Emulator
    • Without Further Ado, Vol 1
    • Lumen
    • Basie Rocks! 
    • Lights on a Satellite
    • Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores

    Best Latin Jazz Album

    • La Fleur de Cayenne
    • The Original Influencers: Dizzy, Chano & Chico
    • Mundoagua
    • A Tribute to Benny Moré and Nat King Cole
    • Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard

    Best Alternative Jazz Album

    • Honey From a Winter Stone — Ambrose Akinmusire
    • Keys to the City Volume One — Robert Glasper
    • Ride into the Sun — Brad Mehldau
    • Live-Action — Nate Smith
    • Blues Blood — Immanuel Wilkins

    Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

    • Wintersongs — Laila Biali
    • The Gift of Love — Jennifer Hudson
    • Who Believes in Angels? — Elton John & Brandi Carlile
    • Harlequin — Lady Gaga
    • A Matter of Time — Laufey
    • The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume 2 — Barbra Streisand

    Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

    • Brightside — ARKAI
    • Ones & Twos — Gerald Clayton
    • BEATrio — Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez
    • Just Us — Bob James & Dave Koz
    • Shayan —Charu Suri

    Best Musical Theater Album

    • Buena Vista Social Club
    • Death Becomes Her
    • Gypsy
    • Just In Time
    • Maybe Happy Ending

    Best Country Solo Performance

    • “Nose on the Grindstone” – Tyler Childers
    • “Good News” – Shaboozey
    • “Bad as I Used to Be [From “F1 The Movie”]”
    • “I Never Lie” – Zach Top
    • “Somewhere Over Laredo” – Lainey Wilson

    Best Country Duo/Group Performance

    • “A Song to Sing” — Miranda Lambert And Chris Stapleton
    • “Trailblazer” — Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson
    • “Love Me Like You Used to Do” — Margo Price & Tyler Childers
    • “Amen” — Shaboozey & Jelly Roll
    • “Honky Tonk Hall of Fame” — George Strait, Chris Stapleton

    Best Country Song

    • “Bitin’ List” — Tyler Childers
    • “Good News” — Shaboozey
    • “I Never Lie” — Zach Top
    • “Somewhere Over Laredo” Lainey Wilson
    • “A Song to Sing” — Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton

    Best Traditional Country Album

    • Dollar a Day — Charley Crockett
    • American Romance — Lukas Nelson
    • Oh What a Beautiful World — Willie Nelson
    • Hard Headed Woman — Margo Price
    • Ain’t in It for My Health — Zach Top

    Best Contemporary Country Album

    • Patterns — Kelsea Ballerini
    • Snipe Hunter — Tyler Childers
    • Evangeline vs. the Machine — Eric Church
    • Beautifully Broken — Jelly Roll
    • Postcards From Texas — Miranda Lambert

    Best American Roots Performance

    • “Lonely Avenue” — Jon Batiste Featuring Randy Newman
    • “Ancient Light” — I’m With Her
    • “Crimson and Clay” — Jason Isbell
    • “Richmond on the James” — Alison Krauss & Union Station
    • “Beautiful Strangers” — Mavis Staples

    Best Americana Performance

    • “Boom” — Sierra Hull
    • “Poison in My Well” — Maggie Rose & Grace Potter
    • “Godspeed” — Mavis Staples
    • “That’s Gonna Leave a Mark” — Molly Tuttle
    • “Horses” — Jesse Welles

    Best American Roots Song

    • “Ancient Light” — I’m With Her
    • “Big Money” — Jon Batist
    • “Foxes in the Snow” — Jason Isbell
    • “Middle” — Jesse Welles
    • “Spitfire” — Sierra Hull

    Best Americana Album

    • Big Money – Jon Batiste
    • Bloom – Larkin Poe
    • Last Leaf on the Tree – Willie Nelson
    • So Long Little Miss Sunshine – Molly Tuttle
    • Middle – Jesse Welles

    Best Bluegrass Album

    • Carter & Cleveland — Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter
    • A Tip Toe High Wire — Sierra Hull
    • Arcadia — Alison Krauss & Union Station
    • Outrun —The Steeldrivers
    • Highway Prayers — Billy Strings

    Best Traditional Blues Album

    • Ain’t Done With the Blues — Buddy Guy
    • Room on the Porch — Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’
    • One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey — Maria Muldaur
    • Look Out Highway — Charlie Musselwhite
    • Young Fashioned Ways — Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Bobby Rush

    Best Contemporary Blues Album

    • Breakthrough — Joe Bonamassa
    • Paper Doll — Samantha Fish
    • A Tribute to LJK — Eric Gales
    • Preacher Kids — Robert Randolph
    • Family — Southern Avenue

    Best Folk Album

    • What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow — Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson
    • Crown of Roses — Patty Griffin
    • Wild and Clear and Blue — I’m With Her
    • Foxes in the Snow — Jason Isbell
    • Under the Powerlines (April 24 – September 24) — Jesse Welles

    Best Regional Roots Music Album

    • Live at Vaughan’s — Corey Henry & the Treme Funktet
    • For Fat Man — Preservation Brass & Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    • Church of New Orleans — Kyle Roussel
    • Second Line Sunday — Trombone Shorty and New Breed Brass Band
    • A Tribute to the King of Zydeco (Various Artists)

    Best Gospel Performance/Song

    • “Do It Again” — Kirk Franklin
    • “Church” — Tasha Cobbs Leonard, John Legend
    • “Still (Live)” — Jonathan McReynolds & Jamal Roberts
    • “Amen” — Pastor Mike Jr.
    • “Come Jesus Come” — Cece Winans featuring Shirley Caesar

    Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

    • “I Know a Name” — Elevation Worship, Chris Brown, Brandon Lake
    • “Your Way’s Better” — Forrest Frank
    • “Hard Fought Hallelujah” — Brandon Lake With Jelly Roll
    • “Headphones” — Lecrae, Killer Mike, T.I.
    • “Amazing” — Darrel Walls, PJ Morton

    Best Gospel Album

    • Sunny Days — Yolanda Adams
    • Tasha — Tasha Cobbs Leonard
    • Live Breathe Fight — Tamela Mann
    • Only On The Road (Live) — Tye Tribbett
    • Heart Of Mine — Darrel Walls, PJ Morton

    Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

    • Child of God II — Forrest Frank
    • Coritos Vol. 1 — Israel & New Breed
    • King Of Hearts — Brandon Lake
    • Reconstruction — Lecrae
    • Let The Church Sing — Tauren Wells

    Best Roots Gospel Album

    • I Will Not Be Moved (Live) — The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
    • Then Came The Morning — Gaither Vocal Band
    • Praise & Worship: More Than a Hollow Hallelujah — The Isaacs
    • Good Answers — Karen Peck & New River
    • Back To My Roots — Candi Staton

    Best Latin Pop Album

    • Cosa Nuestra – Rauw Alejandro
    • Bogotá (Deluxe) – Andrés Cepeda
    • Tropicoqueta – Karol G
    • Cancionera – Natalia Lafourcade
    • ¿Y ahora qué? – Alejandro Sanz

    Best Música Urbana Album

    • DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS — Bad Bunny
    • Mixteip — J Balvin
    • FERXXO VOL X: Sagrado — Feid
    • NAIKI — Nicki Nicole
    • EUB DELUXE — Trueno
    • SINFÓNICO (En Vivo) —Yandel

    Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album

    • Genes Rebeldes — Aterciopelados
    • ASTROPICAL — Bomba Estéreo, Rawayana, ASTROPICAL
    • PAPOTA — CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso
    • ALGORHYTHM — Los Wizzards
    • Novela — Fito Paez

    Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)

    • MALA MÍA — Fuerza Regida, Grupo Frontera
    • Y Lo Que Viene — Grupo Frontera
    • Sin Rodeos — Paola Jara
    • Palabra De To’s (Seca) — Carín León
    • Bobby Pulido & Friends Una Tuya Y Una Mía – Por La Puerta Grande (En Vivo) — Bobby Pulido

    Best Tropical Latin Album

    • Fotografías — Rubén Blades, Roberto Delgado & Orquesta
    • Raíces — Gloria Estefan
    • Clásicos 1.0 — Grupo Niche
    • Bingo — Alain Pérez
    • Debut y Segunda Tanda, Vol. 2 — Gilberto Santa Rosa

    Best Global Music Performance

    • EoO — Bad Bunny
    • Cantando en el Camino — Ciro Hurtado
    • JERUSALEMA — Angélique Kidjo
    • Inmigrante Y Que? — Yeisy Rojas
    • Shrini’s Dream (Live) — Shakti
    • Daybreak — Anoushka Shankar Featuring Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar

    Best African Music Performance

    • “Love” — Burna Boy
    • “With You” — Davido Featuring Omah Lay
    • “Hope & Love” — Eddy Kenzo & Mehran Matin
    • “Gimme Dat” — Ayra Starr Featuring Wizkid
    • “Push 2 Start” — Tyla

    Best Global Music Album

    • Sounds Of Kumbha — Siddhant Bhatia
    • No Sign of Weakness — Burna Boy
    • Eclairer le monde – Light the World — Youssou N’Dour
    • Mind Explosion (50th Anniversary Tour Live) — Shakti
    • Chapter III: We Return to Light — Anoushka Shankar Featuring Alam Khan & Sarathy
    • Korwar
    • Caetano e Bethânia Ao Vivo — Caetano Veloso and Maria Bethânia

    Best Reggae Album

    • Treasure Self Love — Lila Iké
    • Heart & Soul — Vybz Kartel
    • BLXXD & FYAH — Keznamdi
    • From Within — Mortimer
    • No Place Like Home — Jesse Royal

    Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album

    • Kuruvinda — Kirsten Agresta-Copely
    • According To The Moon — Cheryl B. Engelhardt, GEM, Dallas String Quartet
    • Into The Forest — Jahnavi Harrison
    • Nomadica — Carla Patullo Featuring The Scorchio Quartet & Tonality
    • The Colors In My Mind — Chris Redding

    Best Children’s Music Album

    • Ageless: 100 Years Young — Joanie Leeds & Joya
    • Buddy’s Magic Tree House — Mega Ran
    • Harmony — FYÜTCH & Aura V
    • Herstory — Flor Bromley
    • The Music of Tori and the Muses — Tori Amos

    Best Comedy Album

    • Drop Dead Years — Bill Burr
    • PostMortem — Sarah Silverman
    • Single Lady — Ali Wong
    • What Had Happened Was… — Jamie Foxx
    • Your Friend, Nate Bargatze — Nate Bargatze

    Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording

    • Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story — Kathy Garver
    • Into the Uncut Grass — Trevor Noah
    • Lovely One: A Memoir — Ketanji Brown Jackson
    • Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama — Dalai Lama
    • You Know It’s True: The Real Story of Milli Vanilli — Fab Morvan

    Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film and Television)

    • How to Train Your Dragon – John Powell, composer
    • Severance: Season 2 – Theodore Shapiro, composer
    • Sinners – Ludwig Göransson, composer
    • Wicked – John Powell & Stephen Schwartz, composers
    • The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers, composer

    Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media

    • Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Secrets of the Spires — Pinar Toprak, composer
    • Helldivers 2 — Wilbert Roget, II, composer
    • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — Gordy Haab, composer
    • Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & a Pirate’s Fortune — Cody Matthew Johnson & Wilbert Roget, II, composers
    • Sword of the Sea — Austin Wintory, composer

    Best Song Written for Visual Media

    • “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” [From “Tron: Ares”]
    • “Golden” [From “KPop Demon Hunters”]
    • “I Lied to You” [From “Sinners”]
    • “Never Too Late” [From “Elton John: Never Too Late”]
    • “Pale, Pale Moon” [From “Sinners”]
    • “Sinners” [From “Sinners”]

    Best Music Video

    • “Young Lion” — Sade
    • “Manchild” — Sabrina Carpenter
    • “So Be It” — Clipse
    • “Anxiety” — Doechii
    • “Love” — OK Go

    Best Music Film

    • Devo — Devo
    • Live at the Royal Albert Hall — Raye
    • Relentless — Diane Warren
    • Music by John Williams — John Williams
    • Piece by Piece — Pharrell Williams

    Best Recording Package

    • And The Adjacent Possible
    • Balloonerism
    • Danse Macabre: De Luxe
    • Loud Is As 
    • Sequoia 
    • The Spins (Picture Disc Vinyl) 
    • Tracks II: The Lost Albums

    Best Album Cover

    • Chromakopia — Tyler, the Creator
    • The Crux — Djo
    • Debí Tirar Más Fotos — Bad Bunny
    • Glory — Perfume Genius
    • Moisturizer — Wet Leg

    Best Album Notes

    • Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974
    • After the Last Sky
    • Árabe 
    • The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967
    • A Ghost Is Born (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
    • Miles ’55: The Prestige Recordings

    Best Historical Album

    • Joni Mitchell Archives – Volume 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)
    • The Making Of Five Leaves Left 
    • Roots Rocking Zimbabwe – The Modern Sound Of Harare’ Townships 1975-1980 (Analog Africa No.41)
    • Super Disco Pirata – De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965-1980 (Analog Africa No. 39)
    • You Can’t Hip A Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos

    Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

    • All Things Light — Cam
    • Arcadia — Alison Krauss & Union Station
    • For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) — Japanese Breakfast
    • That Wasn’t A Dream — Pino Palladino, Blake Mills

    Best Engineered Album, Classical

    • Cerrone: Don’t Look Down
    • Eastman: Symphony No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2
    • Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk District
    • Standard Stoppages
    • Yule

    Producer Of The Year, Classical

    • Blanton Alspaugh
    • Sergei Kvitko
    • Morten Lindberg
    • Dmitriy Lipay
    • Elaine Martone

    Best Immersive Audio Album

    • All American F***boy
    • Immersed
    • An Immersive Tribute To Astor Piazzolla (Live)
    • Tearjerkers
    • Yule

    Best Instrumental Composition

    • “First Snow” — Remy Le Boeuf
    • “Live Life This Day: Movement I” — Miho Hazama
    • “Lord, That’s A Long Way” — Sierra Hull
    • “Openin”g — Zain Effendi
    • “Train To Emerald City” — John Powell & Stephen Schwartz
    • “Why You Here / Before The Sun Went Down” — Ludwig Göransson

    Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

    • “Be Okay” — Cynthia Erivo
    • “A Child Is Born” — Remy Le Boeuf
    • “Fight On” — The Westerlies
    • “Super Mario Praise Break” — The 8-Bit Big Band

    Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

    • “Big Fish” — Nate Smith Featuring säje
    • “How Did She Look?” — Seth MacFarlane
    • “Keep An Eye On Summer” — Jacob Collier
    • “Something In The Water (Acoustic-Ish)” — Lawrence
    • “What A Wonderful World” — Cody Fry

    Best Orchestral Performance

    • Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L’Ouverture; Ballade Op. 4; Suites From ’24 Negro Melodies’
    • Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
    • Ravel: Boléro, M. 81
    • Still & Bonds
    • Stravinsky: Symphony In Three Movements

    Best Opera Recording

    • Heggie: Intelligence
    • Huang Ruo: An American Soldier
    • Kouyoumdjian: Adoration
    • O’Halloran: Trade & Mary Motorhead
    • Tesori: Grounded

    Best Choral Performance

    • Advena – Liturgies For A Broken World
    • Childs: In The Arms Of The Beloved
    • Lang: Poor Hymnal
    • Ortiz: Yanga
    • Requiem Of Light

    Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

    • Dennehy: Land Of Winter — Alan Pierson & Alarm Will Sound
    • La Mer – French Piano Trios — Neave Trio
    • Lullabies For The Brokenhearted — Lili Haydn & Paul Cantelon
    • Slavic Sessions — Mak Grgi? & Mateusz Kowalski
    • Standard Stoppages — Third Coast Percussion

    Best Classical Instrumental Solo

    • Coleridge-Taylor: 3 Selections From ’24 Negro Melodies’
    • Hope Orchestrated
    • Inheritances
    • Price: Piano Concerto In One Movement In D Minor
    • Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos
    • Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works

    Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

    • Alike – My Mother’s Dream
    • Black Pierrot
    • In This Short Life
    • Kurtág: Kafka Fragments
    • Schubert Beatles
    • Telemann: Ino – Opera Arias For Soprano

    Best Classical Compendium

    • Cerrone: Don’t Look Down
    • The Dunbar/Moore Sessions, Vol. II
    • Ortiz: Yanga r
    • Seven Seasons
    • Tombeaux

    Best Contemporary Classical Composition

    • Cerrone: Don’t Look Down
    • Dennehy: Land Of Winter
    • León: Raíces (Origins)
    • Okpebholo: Songs In Flight
    • Ortiz: Dzonot

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