Written By: Wanjiru Waweru
The 2026 Grammy Awards were broadcast on CBS in Los Angeles, California. Trevor Noah hosted for the sixth and final time at the Crypto.com Arena. Darren Criss hosted the annual Premiere Ceremony at the Peacock Theater before most television viewers.
The gigantic headline from this year’s ceremony: Bad Bunny won Album of the Year for Debí Tirar Más Fotos. As he took the other two awards: Best Música Urbana Album, and Best Global Music Performance. He became the first Latin artist to earn an honor when Debí Tirar Más Fotos became the first Spanish-Language album to do so in 68 years. Kendrick Lamar and SZA won Record of the Year for their Hot 100 number-one song, Luther. Kehlani won two awards for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance – Folded. Olivia Dean won the Best New Artist award.
The 2026 performer includes Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Clipse, Pharrell Williams, Tyler The Creator, and Sabrina Carpenter. Best New Artist nominee, Olivia Dean, who performed her hit song, Man I Need, alongside KATSEYE, Alex Warren, Sombr, Leon Thomas, and Lola Young, performed in a medley fragment.
Bold – Winner
Album of the Year
Winner: Bad Bunny: “Debí Tirar Más Fotos”
Clipse, Pusha T & Malice: “Let God Sort Em Out”
Justin Bieber: “Swag”
Kendrick Lamar: “GNX”
Lady Gaga: “Mayhem”
Leon Thomas: “Mutt”
Sabrina Carpenter: “Man’s Best Friend”
Tyler, the Creator: “Chromakopia”
Record of the Year
Bad Bunny: “DTMF”
Billie Eilish: “Wildflower”
Chappell Roan: “The Subway”
Doechii: “Anxiety”
Winner: Kendrick Lamar & SZA: “Luther”
Lady Gaga: “Abracadabra”
Rosé & Bruno Mars: “Apt.”
Sabrina Carpenter: “Manchild”
Song of the Year
Bad Bunny: “DTMF”
Winner: Billie Eilish: “Wildflower”
Doechii: “Anxiety”
Huntr/x: “Golden”
Kendrick Lamar & SZA: “Luther”
Lady Gaga: “Abracadabra”
Rosé & Bruno Mars “APT.”
Sabrina Carpenter: “Manchild”
Best New Artist
Addison Rae
Alex Warren
Katseye
Leon Thomas
Lola Young
The Marías
Winner: Olivia Dean
Sombr
Best Pop Solo Performance
Chappell Roan: “The Subway”
Justin Bieber: “Daisies”
Lady Gaga: “Disease”
Winner: Lola Young: “Messy”
Sabrina Carpenter: “Manchild”
Best Pop Vocal Album
Justin Bieber: “Swag”
Winner: Lady Gaga: “Mayhem”
Miley Cyrus: “Something Beautiful”
Sabrina Carpenter: “Man’s Best Friend”
Teddy Swims: “I’ve Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2)”
Best Música Urbana Album
Winner: Bad Bunny: “Debí Tirar Más Fotos”
Feid: “Ferxxo Vol X: Sagrado”
J Balvin: “Mixteip”
Nicki Nicole: “Naiki”
Trueno: “EUB Deluxe”
Yandel: “Sinfónico (En Vivo)”
Best Contemporary Country Album
Eric Church: “Evangeline vs. the Machine”
Winner: Jelly Roll: “Beautifully Broken”
Kelsea Ballerini: “Patterns”
Miranda Lambert: “Postcards From Texas”
Tyler Childers: “Snipe Hunte”
Best Rap Album
Clipse, Pusha T & Malice: Let God Sort Em Out
Glorilla: Glorious
JID: God Does Like Ugly
Winner: Kendrick Lamar: GNX
Tyler, the Creator: Chromakopia
Best Rap Song
Clipse: “The Birds Don’t Sing” [ft. John Legend, Voices of Fire]
Doechii: “Anxiety”
Glorilla: “TGIF”
Winner: Kendrick Lamar: “TV Off” [ft. Lefty Gunplay]
Tyler, the Creator: “Sticky” [ft. GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil Wayne]
Best Melodic Rap Performance
Fridayy & Meek Mill: “Proud of Me”
JID, Ty Dolla $ign & 6lack: “Wholeheartedly”
WINNER: Kendrick Lamar & SZA: “Luther”
PartyNextDoor & Drake: “Somebody Loves Me”
Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon Featuring Rapsody: “WeMaj”
Best Rap Performance
Cardi B: “Outside”
WINNER: Clipse, Kendrick Lamar, Pusha T & Malice: “Chains & Whips”
Doechii: “Anxiety”
Kendrick Lamar: “TV Off” [ft. Lefty Gunplay]
Tyler, the Creator: “Darling, I” [ft. Teezo Touchdown]
Best R&B Album
Coco Jones: “Why Not More?”
Giveon: “Beloved”
Ledisi: “The Crown”
WINNER: Leon Thomas: “Mutt”
Teyana Taylor: “Escape Room”
Best Progressive R&B Album
Bilal: “Adjust Brightness”
Destin Conrad: “Love on Digital”
Winner: Durand Bernarr: “Bloom”
Flo: “Access All Areas”
Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon: “Come as You Are”
Best R&B Song
Chris Brown Featuring Bryson Tiller: “It Depends”
Durand Bernarr: “Overqualified”
Winner: Kehlani: “Folded”
Leon Thomas: “Yes It Is”
Summer Walker: “Heart of a Woman”
Best Traditional R&B Performance
Durand Bernarr: “Here We Are”
Lalah Hathaway: “Uptown”
Ledisi: “Love You Too”
Winner: Leon Thomas: “Vibes Don’t Lie”
SZA: “Crybaby”
Best R&B Performance
Chris Brown Featuring Bryson Tiller: “It Depends”
Justin Bieber: “Yukon”
Winner: Kehlani: “Folded”
Leon Thomas: “Mutt (Live from NPR’s Tiny Desk)”
Summer Walker: “Heart of a Woman”
Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical
Winner: Amy Allen
Edgar Barrera
Jessie Jo Dillon
Laura Veltz
Tobias Jesso Jr.
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Blake Mills
Winner: Cirkut
Dan Auerbach
Dijon
Sounwave
Best Immersive Audio Album
Duckwrth: “All American F**k Boy”
Winner: Justin Gray: “Immersed”
Tearjerkers: “Tearjerkers”
Trio Mediæval: “Yule”
Various Artists: “An Immersive Tribute to Astor Piazzolla (Live)”
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia
Cam: All Things Light
Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
Winner: Pino Palladino & Blake Mills: “That Wasn’t a Dream”
Best Alternative Music Album
Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE
Winner: The Cure: “Songs of a Lost World”
Hayley Williams: Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
Tyler, the Creator: Don’t Tap the Glass
Wet Leg: Moisturizer
Best Alternative Music Performance
Bon Iver: “Everything Is Peaceful Love”
Winner: The Cure: “Alone”
Hayley Williams: “Parachute”
Turnstile: “Seein’ Stars”
Wet Leg: “Mangetout”
Best Rock Album
Deftones: “Private Music”
Haim: “I Quit”
Linkin Park: “From Zero”
Winner: Turnstile: “Never Enough”
Yungblud: “Idols”
Best Rock Performance
Amyl and the Sniffers: “U Should Not Be Doing That”
Hayley Williams: “Mirtazapine”
Linkin Park: “The Emptiness Machine”
Turnstile: “Never Enough”
Winner: Yungblud, Nuno Bettencourt & Frank Bello Featuring Adam Wakeman & II: Changes (Live From Villa Park / Back to the Beginning)”
Best Rock Song
Hayley Williams: “Glum”
Winner: Nine Inch Nails: “As Alive as You Need Me to Be”
Sleep Token: “Caramel”
Turnstile: “Never Enough”
Yungblud: “Zombie”
Best Dance Pop Recording
Winner: Lady Gaga: “Abracadabra”
PinkPantheress: “Illegal”
Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco: “Bluest Flame”
Tate McRae: “Just Keep Watching”
Zara Larsson: “Midnight Sun”
Best Music Film
Devo: “Devo”
Diane Warren: “Relentless”
Winner: John Williams: “Music by John Williams”
Pharrell Williams: “Piece by Piece”
Raye: “Live at the Royal Albert Hall”
Best Music Video
Clipse: “So Be It”
Winner: Doechii: “Anxiety”
OK Go: “Love”
Sabrina Carpenter: “Manchild”
Sade: “Young Lion”
Best Song Written for Visual Media
Elton John & Brandi Carlile “Never Too Late (From the Film Elton John: Never Too Late)”
Winner: Huntr/x: “Golden”
Jayme Lawson: “Pale, Pale Moon”
Miles Caton: “I Lied to You”
Nine Inch Nails: “As Alive as You Need Me to Be”
Rod Wave: “Sinners”
Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media
Winner: Austin Wintory: “Sword of the Sea”
Gordy Haab: “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle”
Pinar Toprak: “Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Secrets of the Spires”
Wilbert Roget, II: “Helldivers 2”
Wilbert Roget, II & Cody Matthew Johnson: “Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate’s Fortune”
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Includes Film and Television)
John Powell: “How to Train Your Dragon”
John Powell & Stephen Schwartz: “Wicked”
Kris Bowers: “The Wild Robot”
Winner: Ludwig Göransson: “Sinners”
Theodore Shapiro: “Severance: Season 2”
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
Timothée Chalamet: “A Complete Unknown”
Various Artists: “F1® the Album”
Various Artists: “KPop Demon Hunters”
Winner: Various Artists: “Sinners”
Various Artists: “Wicked”
Best Tropical Latin Album
Alain Pérez: “Bingo”
Gilberto Santa Rosa: “Debut y Segunda Tanda, Vol. 2”
Winner: Gloria Estefan: “Raíces”
Grupo Niche – “Clásicos 1.0”
Rubén Blades Featuring Roberto Delgado & Orquesta: “Fotografías”
Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)
Bobby Pulido: “Bobby Pulido & Friends Una Tuya Y una Mía – Por la Puerta Grande (En Vivo)”
Winner: Carín León: “Palabra de To’s (Seca)”
Fuerza Regida & Grupo Frontera: “Mala Mía”
Grupo Frontera: “Y Lo Que Viene”
Paola Jara: “Sin Rodeos”
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
Aterciopelados: “Genes Rebeldes”
Bomba Estéreo, Rawayana & Astropical: “Astropical”
Winner: Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso: “Papota”
Fito Páez: “Novela”
Los Wizzards: “Algorhythm”
Best Latin Pop Album
Alejandro Sanz: ¿Y Ahora Qué?
Andrés Cepeda: Bogotá (Deluxe)
Karol G: Tropicoqueta
Winner: Natalia Lafourcade: “Cancionera”
Rauw Alejandro: Cosa Nuestra
Best Remixed Recording
The Chemical Brothers & Chris Lake: “Galvanize (Chris Lake Remix)”
Huntr/x & David Guetta: “Golden (David Guetta Rem/x)”
Winner: Lady Gaga & Gesaffelstein: “Abracadabra (Gesaffelstein Remix)”
Mariah Carey & Kaytranada: “Don’t Forget About Us (Kaytranada Remix)”
Soul II Soul: “A Dreams a Dream (Ron Trent Refix)”
Best Dance/Electronic Album
Winner: FKA twigs: “Eusexua”
Fred Again..: “Ten Days”
PinkPantheress: “Fancy That”
Rüfüs Du Sol: “Inhale / Exhale”
Skrillex: “F*ck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3”
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
Disclosure & Anderson .Paak: “No Cap”
Fred Again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax: “Victory Lap”
Kaytranada: “Space Invader”
Skrillex: “Voltage”
Winner: Tame Impala: “End of Summer”
Best Pop/Duo Group Performance
Winner: Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande: “Defying Gravity”
Huntr/x: “Golden”
Katseye: “Gabriela”
Rosé & Bruno Mars: “Apt.”
SZA With Kendrick Lamar: “30 for 30”
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Christopher Cerrone: Cerrone: “Don’t Look Down”
Donnacha Dennehy: Dennehy: “Land of Winter”
Winner: Gabriela Ortiz: “Ortiz: Dzonot”
Shawn E. Okpebholo: Okpebholo: “Songs in Flight”
Tania León: “León: Raíces (Origins)”
Best Classical Compendium
Christina Sandsengen: “Tombeaux”
Janai Brugger, Isolde Fair, MB Gordy & Starr Parodi: “Seven Seasons”
Winner: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel & Alisa Weilerstein: “Gabriela Ortiz: Yanga”
Sandbox Percussion: Cerrone: “Don’t Look Down”
Will Liverman: “The Dunbar/Moore Sessions, Vol. II”
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Allison Charney & Benjamin Loeb: “Alike – My Mother’s Dream”
Winner: Amanda Forsythe, Robert Mealy, Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs: “Telemann: Ino – Opera Arias for Soprano”
Devony Smith, Danny Zelibor & Michael Nicolas: “In This Short Life”
Sidney Outlaw & Warren Jones: “Black Pierrot”
Susan Narucki & Curtis Macomber: “Kurtág: Kafka Fragments”
Theo Hoffman & Steven Blier: “Schubert Beatles”
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Adam Tendler: “Inheritances”
Curtis Stewart & Michael Repper: “Coleridge-Taylor: 3 Selections From “24 Negro Melodies”
Mary Dawood Catlin, Jesús David Medina & Raniero Palm: “Hope Orchestrated”
Winner: Yo-Yo Ma & Andris Nelsons – “Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos”
Yuja Wang & Andris Nelsons – “Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works”
Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Winner: Dalai Lama: “Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama”
Fab Morvan: “You Know It’s True: The Real Story of Milli Vanilli”
Kathy Garver: Elvis, Rocky & Me: “The Carol Connors Story”
Ketanji Brown Jackson: “Lovely One: A Memoir”
Trevor Noah: “Into the Uncut Grass”
Best Comedy Album
Ali Wong: “Single Lady”
Bill Burr: “Drop Dead Years”
Jamie Foxx: “What Had Happened Was…”
Winner: Nate Bargatze: “Your Friend, Nate Bargatze”
Sarah Silverman: “PostMortem”
Best Children’s Music Album
Flor Bromley: “Herstory”
Winner: Fyütch & Aura V: “Harmony”
Joanie Leeds & Joya: Ageless: “100 Years Young”
Mega Ran: “Buddy’s Magic Tree House”
Tori Amos: “The Music of Tori and the Muses”
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Winner: Arkai: “Brightside”
Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda & Antonio Sánchez: “BEATrio”
Bob James & Dave Koz: “Just Us”
Charu Suri: “Shayan”
Gerald Clayton: “Ones & Twos”
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Winner: Alan Pierson & Alarm Will Sound: “Donnacha Dennehy: Land of Winter”
Lili Haydn & Paul Cantelon: “Lullabies for the Brokenhearted”
Mak Grgić & Mateusz Kowalski: “Slavic Sessions”
Neave Trio: “La mer: French Piano Trios”
Third Coast Percussion: “Standard Stoppages”
Best Choral Performance
Anne Akiko Meyers, Los Angeles Master Chorale & Grant Gershon: “Billy Childs: In the Arms of the Beloved”
The Clarion Choir & Steven Fox: “Requiem of Light”
Conspirare & Craig Hella Johnson: “Advena: Liturgies for a Broken World”
The Crossing & David Nally: “David Lang: Poor Hymnal”
Winner: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel & Alisa Weilerstein: “Gabriela Ortiz: Yanga”
Best Opera Recording
Alan Pierson, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street & Silvana Quartet: “Kouyoumdjian: Adoration (Live)”
American Composers Orchestra & Carolyn Kuan: “Huang Ruo: An American Soldier”
Emily D’Angelo, Ellie Dehn, Ben Bliss, Kyle Miller, Greer Grimsley, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Yannick Nézet-Séguin: “Tesori: Grounded (Live)”
Winner: Houston Grand Opera, Kwamé Ryan, Janai Brugger, Jamie Barton & J’Nai Bridges: “Jake Heggie: Intelligence”
Irish National Opera & Elaine Kelly: “O’Halloran: Trade / Mary Motorhead”
Best Orchestral Performance
Winner: Andris Nelsons & Boston Symphony Orchestra: “Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie”
Esa-Pekka Salonen – San Francisco Symphony: “Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements”
Gustavo Dudamel & Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela: “Ravel: Boléro, M. 81”
Michael Repper & National Philharmonic: “Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Op. 46 – Ballade Op. 4 – Suites From ’24 Negro Melodies’”
Yannick Nézet-Séguin & The Philadelphia Orchestra: “Still & Bonds: Symphonies & Variations”
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
Cody Fry: “What a Wonderful World”
Jacob Collier: “Keep an Eye on Summer”
Lawrence: “Something in the Water (Acoustic-ish)”
Winner: Nate Smith & Säje: “Big Fish”
Seth MacFarlane: “How Did She Look?”
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
Cynthia Erivo: “Be Okay”
Nordkraft Big Band & Remy Le Boeuf: “A Child Is Born”
The Westerlies: “Fight On”
Winner: The 8-Bit Big Band: “Super Mario Praise Break”
Best Instrumental Composition
John Powell & Stephen Schwartz: “Train to Emerald City”
Ludwig Göransson Featuring Miles Caton: “Why You Here / Before the Sun Went Down (From “Sinners” Score)”
Miho Hazama, Danish Radio Big Band & Danish National Symphony Orchestra: “Live Life This Day: Movement I”
Winner: Nordkraft Big Band, Remy Le Boeuf & Danielle Wertz: “First Snow”
Sierra Hull: “Lord, That’s a Long Way”
Zain Effendi: “Opening”
Producer of the Year, Classical
Blanton Alspaugh
Dmitriy Lipay
Winner: Elaine Martone
Morten Lindberg
Sergei Kvitko
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Andris Nelsons, Kristine Opolais, Günther Groissböck, Peter Hoare, Brenden Gunnell & Boston Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich: “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District”
The Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst: Eastman: “Symphony No. 2: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2”
Winner: Sandbox Percussion: Cerrone: “Don’t Look Down”
Third Coast Percussion: “Standard Stoppages”
Trio Mediæval: “Yule”
Best Regional Roots Music Album
Corey Henry & The Treme Funktet: “Live at Vaughan’s”
Kyle Roussel: “Church of New Orleans”
Preservation Brass & Preservation Hall Jazz Band: “For Fat Man”
Trombone Shorty & New Breed Brass Band: “Second Line Sunday”
Winner: Various Artists: “A Tribute to the King of Zydeco”
Best Musical Theater Album
Winner: “Buena Vista Social Club”
“Death Becomes Her”
“Gypsy”
“Just in Time”
“Maybe Happy Ending”
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap: “Elemental”
Michael Mayo: “Fly”
Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach & Tom Scott Featuring Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold, Rachel Eckroth & Sam Weber: “Live at Vic’s Las Vegas”
Winner: Samara Joy: “Portrait”
Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell: “We Insist 2025!”
Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album
Winner Carla Patullo: “Nomadica”
Cheryl B. Engelhardt & Gem: “According to the Moon”
Chris Redding: “The Colors in My Mind”
Jahnavi Harrison: “Into the Forest”
Kirsten Agresta-Copely: “Kuruvinda”
Best Reggae Album
Jesse Royal: “No Place Like Home:
Winner: Keznamdi: “Blxxd & Fyah”
Lila Iké: “Treasure Self Love”
Mortimer: “From Within”
Vybz Kartel: “Heart & Soul”
Best Global Music Album
Anoushka Shankar Featuring Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar: “Chapter III: We Return to Light”
Burna Boy: “No Sign of Weakness”
Winner: Caetano Veloso & Maria Bethânia: “Caetano e Bethânia Ao Vivo”
Shakti: “Mind Explosion (50th Anniversary Tour Live)”
Siddhant Bhatia: “Sounds of Kumbha”
Youssou N’Dour – “Éclairer le monde: Light the World”
Best African Music Performance
Ayra Starr & Wizkid: “Gimme Dat”
Burna Boy: “Love”
Davido Featuring Omah Lay: “With You”
Eddy Kenzo & Mehran Matin: “Hope & Love”
Winner: Tyla: “Push 2 Start”
Best Global Music Performance
Angélique Kidjo: “Jerusalema”
Anoushka Shankar Featuring Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar: “Daybreak”
Winner: Bad Bunny: “Eoo”
Ciro Hurtado: “Cantando en el Camino”
Shakti: “Shrini’s Dream (Live)”
Yeisy Rojas: “Inmigrante y Que?”
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Barbra Streisand: “The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2”
Elton John & Brandi Carlile: “Who Believes in Angels?”
Jennifer Hudson: “The Gift of Love”
Lady Gaga: “Harlequin”
Laila Biali: “Wintersongs”
Winner: Laufey: “A Matter of Time”
Best Alternative Jazz Album
Ambrose Akinmusire: “Honey From a Winter Stone”
Brad Mehldau: “Ride into the Sun”
Immanuel Wilkins: “Blues Blood”
Winner: Nate Smith: “Live-Action”
Robert Glasper: “Keys to the City Volume One”
Best Latin Jazz Album
Arturo O’Farrill: The Original Influencers: “Dizzy, Chano & Chico (Live at Town Hall)”
Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Mundoagua – “Celebrating Carla Bley”
Winner: Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Yainer Horta & Joey Calveiro: “A Tribute to Benny Moré and Nat King Cole”
Miguel Zenón Quartet: Vanguardia Subterránea: “Live at the Village Vanguard”
Paquito D’Rivera – Madrid-New York Connection Band: “La Fleur de Cayenne”
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Winner: Christian McBride: “Without Further Ado, Vol 1”
Danilo Pérez & Bohuslän Big Band: “Lumen”
Deborah Silver & The Count Basie Orchestra: “Basie Rocks!”
Kenny Wheeler Legacy Featuring The Royal Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra & Frost Jazz Orchestra: “Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores”
Sun Ra Arkestra: “Lights on a Satellite”
The 8-Bit Big Band: Orchestrator “Emulator”
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Branford Marsalis Quartet: “Belonging”
Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade: “Trilogy 3 (Live)”
John Patitucci Featuring Chris Potter & Brian Blade: “Spirit Fall”
Winner: Sullivan Fortner: “Southern Nights”
Yellowjackets: “Fasten Up”
Best Jazz Performance
Winner: Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade: “Windows (Live)”
Lakecia Benjamin Featuring Immanuel Wilkins & Mark Whitfield: “Noble Rise”
Michael Mayo: “Four”
Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach & Tom Scott Featuring Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold, Rachel Eckroth & Sam Weber: “All Stars Lead to You (Live)”
Samara Joy: “Peace of Mind / Dreams Come True”
Best Roots Gospel Album
Winner: The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir: “I Will Not Be Moved (Live)”
Candi Staton: “Back to My Roots”
Gaither Vocal Band: “Then Came the Morning”
The Isaacs: Praise & Worship: “More Than a Hollow Hallelujah”
Karen Peck & New River: “Good Answers”
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
Brandon Lake: “King of Hearts”
Forrest Frank: “Child of God II”
Winner: Israel & New Breed: “Coritos, Vol. 1”
Lecrae: “Reconstruction”
Tauren Wells: “Let the Church Sing”
Best Gospel Album
Winner: Darrel Walls & PJ Morton: “Heart of Mine”
Tamela Mann: “Live Breathe Fight”
Tasha Cobbs Leonard: “Tasha”
Tye Tribbett: “Only on the Road (Live)”
Yolanda Adams: “Sunny Days”
Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
Winner: Brandon Lake & Jelly Roll: “Hard Fought Hallelujah”
Darrel Walls & PJ Morton: “Amazing”
Elevation Worship, Chris Brown & Brandon Lake: “I Know a Name”
Forrest Frank: “Your Way’s Better”
Lecrae, Killer Mike & T.I.: “Headphones”
Best Gospel Performance/Song
Winner: Cece Winans & Shirley Caesar: “Come Jesus Come”
Jonathan McReynolds & Jamal Roberts: “Still (Live)”
Kirk Franklin: “Do It Again”
Pastor Mike Jr.: “Amen”
Tasha Cobbs Leonard & John Legend: “Church”
Best Folk Album
Winner: I’m With Her: “Wild and Clear and Blue”
Jason Isbell: “Foxes in the Snow”
Jesse Welles: “Under the Powerlines (Live April 2024 – September 2024)”
Patty Griffin: “Crown of Roses”
Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson: “What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow”
Best Bluegrass Album
Alison Krauss & Union Station: “Arcadia”
Winner: Billy Strings: “Highway Prayers”
Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter: “Carter & Cleveland”
Sierra Hull: “A Tip Toe High Wire”
The Steeldrivers: “Outrun”
Best Americana Album
Jesse Welles: “Middle”
Winner: Jon Batiste: “Big Money”
Larkin Poe: “Bloom”
Molly Tuttle: “So Long Little Miss Sunshine”
Willie Nelson: “Last Leaf on the Tree”
Best Americana Roots Song
Winner: I’m With Her: “Ancient Light”
Jason Isbell: “Foxes in the Snow”
Jesse Welles: “Middle”
Jon Batiste: “Big Money”
Sierra Hull: “Spitfire”
Best Americana Performance
Jesse Welles: “Horses”
Maggie Rose & Grace Potter: “Poison in My Well”
Winner: Mavis Staples: “Godspeed”
Molly Tuttle: “That’s Gonna Leave a Mark”
Sierra Hull: “Boom”
Best Historical Album
Doc Pomus: “You Can’t Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos”
Winner: Joni Mitchell: “Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)”
Nick Drake: “The Making of Five Leaves Left”
Various Artists: Roots Rocking Zimbabwe – “The Modern Sound of Harare’ Townships 1975-1980 (Analog Africa No.41)”
Various Artists: Super Disco Pirata – “De Tepito Para el Mundo 1965-1980 (Analog Africa No.39)”
Best Album Notes
Amanda Ekery: “Árabe”
Buck Owens and His Buckaroos: “Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974”
Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates & Dave Holland: “After the Last Sky”
Winner: Miles Davis: “Miles ’55: The Prestige Recordings”
Sly and the Family Stone: “The First Family: Live at the Winchester Cathedral 1967”
Wilco: “A Ghost Is Born (Expanded Edition)”
Best Album Cover
Bad Bunny: “Debí Tirar Más Fotos”
Djo: “The Crux”
Perfume Genius: “Glory”
Winner: Tyler, the Creator: “Chromakopia”
Wet Leg: “Moisturizer”
Best Recording Package
Winner: Bruce Springsteen: “Tracks II: The Lost Albums”
Duran Duran: “Danse Macabre: De Luxe”
Mac Miller: “Balloonerism”
Mac Miller: “The Spins (Picture Disc Vinyl)”
OK Go: “And the Adjacent Possible”
Tsunami: “Loud Is As”
Various Artists: “Sequoia”
Best Contemporary Blues Album
Eric Gales: “A Tribute to LJK”
Joe Bonamassa: “Breakthrough”
Winner: Robert Randolph: “Preacher Kids”
Samantha Fish: “Paper Doll”
Southern Avenue: “Family”
Best Traditional Blues Album
Winner: Buddy Guy: “Ain’t Done With the Blues”
Charlie Musselwhite: “Look Out Highway”
Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Bobby Rush: “Young Fashioned Ways”
Maria Muldaur: One Hour Mama: “The Blues of Victoria Spivey”
Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’: “Room on the Porch”
Best American Roots Performance
Alison Krauss & Union Station: “Richmond on the James”
I’m With Her: “Ancient Light”
Jason Isbell: “Crimson and Clay”
Jon Batiste Featuring Randy Newman: “Lonely Avenue”
Winner: Mavis Staples: “Beautiful Strangers”
Best Traditional Country Album
Charley Crockett: “Dollar a Day”
Lukas Nelson: “American Romance”
Margo Price: “Hard Headed Woman”
Willie Nelson: “Oh What a Beautiful World”
WINNER: Zach Top: “Ain’t in It for My Health”
Best Country Song
Lainey Wilson: “Somewhere Over Laredo”
Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton: “A Song to Sing”
Shaboozey: “Good News”
Winner: Tyler Childers: “Bitin’ List”
Zach Top: “I Never Lie”
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
George Strait Featuring Chris Stapleton: “Honky Tonk Hall of Fame”
Margo Price Featuring Tyler Childers: “Love Me Like You Used to Do”
Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton: “A Song to Sing”
Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert & Lainey Wilson: “Trailblazer”
Winner: Shaboozey & Jelly Roll: “Amen”
Best Country Solo Performance
Winner: Chris Stapleton: “Bad as I Used to Be”
Lainey Wilson: “Somewhere Over Laredo”
Shaboozey: “Good News”
Tyler Childers: “Nose on the Grindstone”
Zach Top: “I Never Lie”
Best Metal Performance
Dream Theater: “Night Terror”
Ghost: “Lachryma”
Sleep Token: “Emergence”
Spiritbox: “Soft Spine”
Winner: Turnstile: “Birds”
Best Spoken Word Poetry Album
Marc Marcel: “Black Shaman”
Omari Hardwick & Anthony Hamilton: “Pages”
Queen Sheba: A Hurricane in Heels: “Healed People Don’t Act Like That (Partially Recorded Live @City Winery & Other Places)”
Saul Williams & Carlos Niño & Friends: “Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends at Treepeople (Live)”
Winner: Skillz: Words for Days, Vol. 1
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