Kendrick Lamar leads Grammy nods as K-pop makes it mark

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Kendrick Lamar is starring this year's Grammy nominations, up for 9 trophies, including record, opus and medium of the year.

The 38-year-old swept past year's awards, taking location 5 gongs for his deed dis way Not Like Us.

The varied container of Grammy nominees - featuring large names and a fewer surprises - besides saw K-pop stars, a knighted British rocker and a Hollywood starring antheral marque it into the Grammy competition.

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Image: Lady Gaga earlier this year. Pic: AP

Lady Gaga (who is up for record, opus and medium of the twelvemonth too), Jack Antonoff and Canadian grounds producer-songwriter Cirkut travel Lamar with 7 nominations each.

Sabrina Carpenter got six nods, matching her information tally for past year.

Alongside Lamar's GNX, different albums to marque it into the champion medium class this twelvemonth see Lady Gaga's Mayhem and Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos (only the 2nd all-Spanish connection medium to beryllium nominated successful the category, pursuing the Puerto Rican rapper's 2023 all-Spanish medium Un Verano Sin Ti).

They are each imaginable first-time winners successful the category.

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Image: Sabrina Carpenter is up for six awards. Pic: AP

Also up for the apical medium prize are Sabrina Carpenter's Man's Best Friend, Justin Bieber's Swag, Clipse, Pusha T & Malice's Let God Sort Em Out, Leon Thomas's Mutt, and Tyler, the Creator's Chromakopia.

Despite releasing a caller medium earlier this year, Taylor Swift, didn't marque it connected to the champion medium nominees arsenic The Life Of A Showgirl came retired aft the adjacent of the eligibility period. The model ran from 31 August 2024 to 30 August 2025.

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Image: Rosé from Blackpink. Pic: AP

K-pop gets its moment

With K-pop typically ignored by the Grammys (BTS are the lone K-pop artists to antecedently get a nod) this twelvemonth saw 2 K-pop tracks successful contention for champion song.

Golden, the pb way from planetary improvement KPop Demon Hunters and APT, the megahit by erstwhile Blackpink subordinate Rosé alongside Bruno Mars, some made it connected to the list.

Rosé got nods successful 4 different categories, including champion record, portion KPop Demon Hunters got 3 different nominations, including successful the champion popular duo/group show category.

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Image: Lola Young is up for champion caller arist. Pic: Amy Harris/Invision/AP

British creator Lola Young, who is the niece of acclaimed children's writer Julia Donaldson, got a motion successful the champion caller creator category, alongside Olivia Dean. Both topped the UK charts this year.

They volition vie against KATSEYE, The Marias, Addison Rae, sombr, Leon Thomas and Alex Warren. Last twelvemonth the class was won by Good Luck, Babe! vocalist Chappell Roan.

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Image: Sir Elton John successful Never Too Late. Pic: Walt Disney Pictures

Timothée Chalamet is up for a Grammy

In little expected Grammy news, Sir Elton John besides got a motion alongside US singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile for the opus Never Too Late, which features connected the soundtrack of the 2024 Sir Elton documentary of the aforesaid name.

Meanwhile, histrion Timothée Chalamet got his archetypal Grammy motion successful the champion compilation soundtrack for ocular media class for his enactment connected Oscar-nominated movie A Complete Unknown, successful which helium played Bob Dylan.

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Image: Timothee Chalamet arsenic Bob Dylan successful A Complete Unknown. Pic: Searchlight Pictures 2024

Nominations were announced by past Grammy winners, including Sabrina Carpenter, Doechii and past year's champion caller creator winner, Chappell Roan.

Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne came unneurotic to denote the stone and metallic medium nominations in tribute to Ozzy, who died successful July. He had antecedently won successful some categories.

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Image: The Osbournes announced the champion stone and metallic medium nominations. Pic: Grammys/Recording Academy

The annual ceremony - which gives retired a whopping 95 gongs successful full - has 4 large categories: album, grounds and opus of the year, and champion caller artist.

Following Beyoncé's historical triumph for champion medium and champion state medium for Cowboy Carter, this twelvemonth the state class has been divided into two: champion accepted state medium and champion modern state album.

There's besides the caller summation of a standalone class for champion medium cover.

Last year, Beyoncé made history arsenic the Grammy's astir nominated artist, winning medium of the twelvemonth for the archetypal time.

Winners volition beryllium chosen by the astir 15,000 voting members of the Recording Academy.

The 68th Grammy Awards instrumentality spot connected Sunday, 1 February 2026, astatine the Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles.

Main class nominees

Album Of The Year
DeBi TiRAR MaS FOtoS, Bad Bunny
Swag, Justin Bieber
Man's Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter
Let God Sort Em Out, Clipse, Pusha T and Malice
MAYHEM, Lady Gaga
GNX, Kendrick Lamar
Mutt, Leon Thomas
CHROMAKOPIA, Tyler, The Creator

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, Bruno Mars and Rosé

Song Of The Year
Abracadabra, Lady Gaga
Anxiety, Doechii
APT, Bruno Mars and Rosé
DtMF, Bad Bunny
Golden, EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI
luther, Kendrick Lamar with SZA
Manchild, Sabrina Carpenter
Wildflower, Billie Eilish

Best New Artist
Olivia Dean
KATSEYE
The Marias
Addison Rae
sombr
Leon Thomas
Alex Warren
Lola Young

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