2026 Grammys: Kendrick Lamar leads nominations, followed by Lady Gaga, Jack Antonoff, Cirkut

The rapper is up for nine trophies at February's ceremony: record, song and album of the year — marking the third time he's had simultaneous nominations in those big categories — as well as pop duo/group performance, melodic rap performance, rap song and rap album. He's also nominated twice in the rap performance category.

Lamar, who is riding the success of last year's blockbuster "GNX" album, has 22 Grammy career wins and 66 nominations. "GNX" is his fifth consecutive studio album to be nominated for album of the year, something no other artist has ever done. If it wins, it will be his first win in the category. And it will be only the third rap album to win the top prize, following Outkast in 2004 for "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" and Lauryn Hill in 1999 for "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill."

Lady Gaga, Jack Antonoff and Canadian record producer/songwriter Cirkut follow Lamar with seven nominations each.

Lady Gaga is up for song, record and album of the year — her first time receiving nominations in all three categories simultaneously. She could also score potential wins in the pop solo performance, pop vocal album, dance pop recording and traditional pop vocal album categories.

Antonoff is nominated in the record, album and song of the year categories twice, for his work with Lamar and Sabrina Carpenter. He's also nominated for rap song for the first time. That's for "tv off" with Lamar, featuring Lefty Gunplay.

Antonoff and Cirkut will face off in the producer of the year, non-Classical category. If Antonoff wins, he will tie Babyface's record of most career wins in the category, with four.

That's not all. Cirkut is up for both record and song of the year, twice — for Lady Gaga's "Abracadabra" and Rosé and Bruno Mars' "APT." — as well as album of the year and best dance pop recording.

Here's the list of nominees in major categories:

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” – Lady Gaga, Henry Walter & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
• “Anxiety” – Jaylah Hickmon, songwriter (Doechii)
• “APT.” – Amy Allen, Christopher Brody Brown, Rogét Chahayed, Omer Fedi, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Chae Young Park, Theron Thomas & Henry Walter, songwriters (ROSÉ, Bruno Mars)
• “DtMF” – Marco Daniel Borrero, Scott Dittrich, Benjamin Falik, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, Hugo René Sención Sanabria, Tyler Thomas Spry & Roberto José Rosado Torres, songwriters (Bad Bunny)
• “Golden [From “KPop Demon Hunters”]” – EJAE & Mark Sonnenblick, songwriters (HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI)
• “luther” – Jack Antonoff, Roshwita Larisha Bacha, Matthew Bernard, Scott Bridgeway, Sam Dew, Ink, Kendrick Lamar, Solána Rowe, Mark Anthony Spears & Kamasi Washington, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar With SZA)
• “Manchild” – Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter, songwriters (Sabrina Carpenter)
• “WILDFLOWER” – Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)

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 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 Pop Recording

• “Bluest Flame” – Selena Gomez & benny blanco
• “Abracadabra” – Lady Gaga
• “Midnight Sun” – Zara Larsson
• “Just Keep Watching (From “F1® The Movie”)” – Tate McRae
• “Illegal” – PinkPantheress

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 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 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 Country Solo Performance

• “Nose On The Grindstone” – Tyler Childers
• “Good News” – Shaboozey
• “Bad As I Used To Be [From “F1® The Movie”]” – Chris Stapleton
• “I Never Lie” – Zach Top
• “Somewhere Over Laredo” – Lainey Wilson

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 Latin Pop Album

• Cosa Nuestra – Rauw Alejandro
• BOGOTÁ (DELUXE) – Andrés Cepeda
• Tropicoqueta – KAROL G
• Cancionera – Natalia Lafourcade
• ¿Y ahora qué? – Alejandro Sanz

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

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In addition to Lady Gaga's "Mayhem" and Lamar's "GNX," the album of the year category is rounded out by Carpenter's "Man's Best Friend," Bad Bunny's "Debí Tirar Más Fotos," Justin Bieber's "Swag," Clipse, Pusha T & Malice's "Let God Sort Em Out," Leon Thomas' "Mutt" and Tyler, the Creator's "Chromakopia."

This is the first time three albums have been up for both rap album and album of the year: "GNX," "Let God Sort Em Out" and "Chromakopia."

Additionally, Bad Bunny's "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" is only the second time an all-Spanish language album has been nominated for the top prize. The first was also a Bad Bunny release — in 2023, for "Un Verano Sin Ti." Harry Styles' "Harry's House" won that year.

Carpenter, Bad Bunny, Leon Thomas and Serban Ghenea all boast six nominations. Andrew Watt, Clipse, Doechii, Sounwave, SZA, Turnstile and Tyler, the Creator have five each.

Only recordings commercially released in the U.S. between Aug. 31, 2024 through Aug. 30, 2025 were eligible for nominations. The final round of Grammy voting, which determines its winners, will take place Dec. 12 through Jan. 5.

In the best new artist category, global girl group Katseye, Olivia Dean, The Marias, Addison Rae, sombr, Leon Thomas, Alex Warren and Lola Young will all go head-to-head.

The record of the year category is made up of Bad Bunny's "DtMF," Carpenter's "Manchild," Doechii's "Anxiety," Billie Eilish's "Wildflower," Lady Gaga's "Abracadabra," Lamar and SZA's "luther," Chappell Roan's "The Subway" and Rosé and Bruno Mars' "APT."

Rosé, perhaps best known as one-fourth of the juggernaut girl group BLACKPINK, is the first K-pop artist to ever receive a nomination in the record of the year field.

Some may be surprised to see Eilish included in the bunch, as "Wildflower" was released on her spring 2024 album, "Hit Me Hard and Soft," ahead of the eligibility window. However, there is a Recording Academy rule that allows albums released during the previous ceremony's eligibility period to be considered, "provided the same tracks were not entered the previous year and the album did not win a Grammy," with a few exceptions. By that rule, Eilish's "Wildflower" — which was not previously entered — is eligible.

Song of the year — an award for a track's songwriters, which sometimes include the performer but not always — is made up of an almost identical list to record of the year, except Roan is replaced by "Golden" from the "KPop Demon Hunters" soundtrack.

"The Grammy Awards are our opportunity to honor the people who make this community so vibrant and this year's nominees remind us of the incredible talent that is driving music forward," said Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. in a statement. "From emerging talent to influential icons, these nominees reflect today's broad and diverse musical landscape, and I am excited to celebrate them in the coming weeks ahead."

There are a number of first-time nominees as well this year, including Tate McRae, Zara Larsson and PinkPantheress.

The 2026 Grammy Awards will air Feb. 1 live on CBS and Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.