American Rapper Kendrick Lamar leads the nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards, music's highest honors, with nine, the Recording Academy announced on Friday.
Lamar is up for album of the year (for his most recent, GNX), best rap album, record of the year, and song of the year. He faces competition for the night’s top award album of the year from Bad Bunny, Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga, Leon Thomas, Tyler, the Creator and Clipse, Pusha T & Malice.
Gaga follows Lamar with seven nominations, tied for second with producers Cirkut and Jack Antonoff. Other top nominees include Carpenter, Thomas, and next year’s Super Bowl half-time show performer, Bad Bunny, who each received six.
Bad Bunny becomes the first Spanish-language artist to be nominated across the Grammys’ big three categories: album of the year, song of the year, and record of the year. His song DtMF competes in record of the year against 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 Bruno Mars and Rosé’s APT.
Lamar’s Luther is also nominated for song of the year alongside Abracadabra, Anxiety, APT, DtMF, Wildflower, Manchild and the KPop Demon Hunters’ track Golden.
