The official nominations list for the 2026 Grammy Awards proves the ceremony will certainly be one to remember.
A lineup of former Grammy winners, nominees and special guests — including Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Doechii, Karol G, Lizzo, Sam Smith, and Mumford & Sons — announced the 2026 nominees for the 95 categories during a Friday, November 7, livestream.
The nominations included two new categories this year: Best Album Cover and Best Traditional Country Album. According to the Recording Academy, the Best Album Cover category “recognizes excellence in cover art for albums of recordings in any genre of music and honors the art directors whose craft shapes a record’s story and vision.”
Meanwhile, the former Best Country Album category has been renamed Best Contemporary Country Album, while a new Best Traditional Country Album category — which adheres to “more traditional sound structures of the country genre,” using instruments such as fiddle, banjo, mandolin and the like — has been added.
Earlier this year, the move to split the country category was met with some backlash from fans who believed the Recording Academy did so due to Beyoncé’s 2025 win for Best Country Album. However, Shelly Maree, an awards manager at the Recording Academy, claimed in an interview published on Monday, November 3, that the change had already been coming for three years.
“We’ve been hearing from artists for a long time,” Maree told MusicRow. “They didn’t feel fully reflected in the categories as they stood, neither in the existing country categories nor in the American Roots field. So this came from them: the creators, the voting members. It’s been in the works for a while.”
The 2026 Grammy Awards are set to take place on Sunday, February 1, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The broadcast will air live on CBS and Paramount+.
Scroll through the list below to see all of the 2026 Grammy nominations:
Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical
Amy Allen
Tobias Jesso Jr.
Edgar Barrera
Jessie Jo Dillon
Laura Veltz
Producer of the Year
Dan Auerbach
Cirkut
Dijon
Blake Mills
Sounwave
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 Pop Solo Performance
“Daisies,” Justin Bieber
“Manchild,” Sabrina Carpenter
“Disease,” Lady Gaga
“The Subway,” Chappell Roan
“Messy,” Lola Young
Best New Artist
Olivia Dean
Katseye
The Marias
Addison Rae
Sombr
Leon Thomas
Alex Warren
Lola Young
