Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga lead Grammy Award nominations
By Hannah Roberts, PA Senior Entertainment Reporter
US rapper Kendrick Lamar and pop star Lady Gaga are among those leading the nominations for next year’s Grammy Awards.
The annual awards show will take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Sunday February 1 2026.
Lamar, 38, who already has 22 Grammys to his name, is up for nine prizes – record of the year, album of the year, song of the year, pop/duo group performance, melodic rap performance, rap album and rap song.
He has also been nominated twice in the rap performance category for TV off featuring Lefty Gunplay and Chains And Whips with Clipse, Pusha T, Malice and Pharrell Williams.
Lady Gaga, who finished a spate of UK performances last month amid her Mayhem Ball World Tour, is up for record, song and album of the year – her first time receiving nominations in all three categories simultaneously – and could also score wins in the categories, pop solo performance, pop vocal album, dance pop/electronic recording and traditional pop vocal album.
Among the other artists with major nods this year is producer Jack Antonoff, Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny, US pop star Sabrina Carpenter and Canadian record producer/songwriter Cirkut.
The song of the year category, which includes Lady Gaga and Lamar, is rounded out by Doechii for her track Anxiety, Bruno Mars and Rose with APT, Golden by HUNTR/X from the Netflix hit KPop Demon Hunters, Carpenter with Manchild, DtMF by Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish and Finneas for their song Wildflower.
Two British stars secured nods in the best new artist category which was last year won by Good Luck, Babe! singer Chappell Roan.
Messy singer Lola Young and Mercury Prize-nominated artist Olivia Dean have both topped the UK charts this year with new releases.
This year’s nominations included two new categories, traditional country album and best album cover.
Only recordings commercially released in the US between August 31 2024 and Aug 30 2025 are eligible for nominations for the 2026 ceremony.