Kendrick Lamar broke Jay-Z’s record, Bad Bunny made history, and Billie Eilish won again: who triumphed at the 2026 Grammys

The 68th annual Grammy Awards were held at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 1. The Recording Academy announced winners in 95 categories.

This is stated on the Grammy website .

Kendrick Lamar was the most successful artist of the ceremony, winning 5 awards. He received three statuettes before the main telecast began: for best rap song for TV Off, melodic rap performance Luther with SZA, and rap performance Chains & Whips as a guest artist.

The rapper added two more wins during the CBS primetime broadcast. With the award for best rap album for GNX, Kendrick Lamar became the most-winning rapper in Grammy history, surpassing Jay-Z’s previous record. His fifth win of the night for record of the year for Luther cemented his lead.

Winners of the main nominations

Despite Lamar’s dominance, the four main categories of the ceremony were won by different artists. The award for album of the year went to Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny for his work Debí Tirar Más Fotos.

Billie Eilish won Song of the Year with Wildflower, while British singer Olivia Dean won Best New Artist.

Lady Gaga won two awards: for her pop song “Abracadabra” and for best dance pop recording. She also won in the category of “Best Pop Vocal Album” for her work “Mayhem”.

Winners in other categories

The winner in the Best Music Video category was Doechii for Anxiety, directed by James McKell.

Among the pop artists, Lola Young stood out, winning the award for best pop solo performance with the song Messy.

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande won the Best Pop Duo or Group Performance award for “Defying Gravity.”

The rock categories saw a variety of artists succeed. Yungblud, along with Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman and II, won the award for best rock performance for the song Changes. Turnstile won in two categories: best rock album and best rock song for Never Enough.

The Recording Academy presented awards in 86 categories during an afternoon “premiere ceremony,” while the 9 major awards were presented during prime time during the television broadcast.

Full list of winners and nominees

Song of the Year

Winner: Billie Eilish – Wildflower

Nominees:

• Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
• Doechii – Anxiety
• Rosé & Bruno Mars – APT
• Bad Bunny – DtMF
• Hunter/x – Golden
• Kendrick Lamar featuring SZA – Luther
• Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild

Record of the year

Winner: Kendrick Lamar featuring SZA – Luther

Producers: Jack Antonoff, Bridgeway, M-Tech, Roselilah, Sounwave and Kamasi Washington. Sound engineers and mixers: Jack Antonoff, Ray Charles Brown Jr., Hector Castro, Oli Jacobs, Jack Manning, Sean Matsukawa, Dani Perez, Tony Shepherd, Laura Sisk and Jonathan Turney. Mastering engineer: Ruairi O’Flaherty.

Nominees:

• Bad Bunny – DtMF
• Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
• Doechii – Anxiety
• Billie Eilish – Wildflower
• Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
• Chappell Roan – The Subway
• Rosé & Bruno Mars – APT

Album of the Year

Winner: Bad Bunny – Debí Tirar Más Fotos

Nominees:

• Justin Bieber – Swag
• Sabrina Carpenter – Man’s Best Friend
• Clipse – Let God Sort Em Out
• Lady Gaga – Mayhem
• Kendrick Lamar – GNX
• Leon Thomas – Mutt
• Tyler, the Creator – Chromakopia

Best New Artist

Winner: Olivia Dean

Nominees:

• Katseye
• The Marias
• Addison Rae
• Sombra
• Leon Thomas
• Alex Warren
• Lola Young

Pop and dance music

Best Pop Vocal Album

Winner: Lady Gaga – Mayhem

Nominees:

• Justin Bieber – Swag
• Sabrina Carpenter – Man’s Best Friend
• Miley Cyrus – Something Beautiful
• Teddy Swims – I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy Pt 2

Best Pop Solo Performance

Winner: Lola Young – Messy

Nominees:

• Justin Bieber – Daisies
• Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
• Lady Gaga – Disease
• Chappell Roan – The Subway

Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group

Winner: Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande – Defying Gravity

Nominees:

• Huntr/x – Golden
• Katseye – Gabriela
• Rosé & Bruno Mars – APT
• SZA With Kendrick Lamar – 30 For 30

Best Dance or Electronic Recording

Winner: Tame Impala – End Of Summer

Nominees:

• Disclosure & Anderson .Paak – No Cap
• Fred again.., Skepta, & PlaqueBoyMax – Victory Lap
• Kaytranada – Space Invader
• Skrillex – Voltage

Best Dance or Electronic Album

Winner: FKA Twigs – Eusexua

Nominees:

• Fred again.. – Ten Days
• Pink Pantheress – Fancy That
• Rüfüs Du Sol – Inhale / Exhale
• Skrillex – F*** U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! <3

Best Dance Pop Recording

Winner: Lady Gaga – Abracadabra

Nominees:

• Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco – Bluest Flame
• Zara Larsson – Midnight Sun
• Tate McRae – Just Keep Watching
• Pink Pantheress – Illegal

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Winner: Laufey – A Matter Of Time

Nominees:

• Laila Biali – Wintersongs
• Jennifer Hudson – The Gift Of Love
• Elton John & Brandi Carlile – Who Believes In Angels?
• Lady Gaga – Harlequin
• Barbra Streisand – The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume 2

Latin American music

Best Latin Pop Album

Winner: Natalia Lafourcade – Cancionera

Nominees:

• Rauw Alejandro – Cosa Nuestra
• Andrés Cepeda – Bogotá (Deluxe)
• Karol G – Tropicoqueta
• Alejandro Sanz – ¿Y ahora qué?

Best Urban Album

Winner: Bad Bunny – DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

Nominees:

• J Balvin – Mixtape
• Feid – Ferxxo Vol X: Sagrado
• Nicki Nicole – Naiki
• Trueno – Eub Deluxe
• Yandel – Sinfónico (Live)

Rock and metal

Best Rock Performance

Winner: Yungblud ft Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman, II – Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back To The Beginning

Nominees:

• Amyl and The Sniffers – U Should Not Be Doing That
• Linkin Park – The Emptiness Machine
• Turnstile – Never Enough
• Hayley Williams – Mirtazapine

Best Rock Song

Winner: Nine Inch Nails – As Alive As You Need Me To Be

Nominees:

• Sleep Token – Caramel
• Hayley Williams – Glum
• Turnstile – Never Enough
• Yungblud – Zombie

Best Rock Album

Winner: Turnstile – Never Enough

Nominees:

• Deftones – Private Music
• Haim – I Quit
• Linkin Park – From Zero
• Yungblud – Idols

Best Alternative Music Album

Winner: The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World

Nominees:

• Bon Iver – Sable, Fable
• Tyler, The Creator – Don’t Tap the Glass
• Wet Leg – Moisturizer
• Hayley Williams – Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

Best Alternative Music Performance

Winner: The Cure – Alone

Nominees:

• Bon Iver – Everything Is Peaceful Love
• Turnstile – Seein’ Stars
• Wet Leg – Mangetout
• Hayley Williams – Parachute

Best Metal Performance

Winner: Turnstile – Birds

Nominees:

• Dream Theater – Night Terror
• Ghost – Lachryma
• Sleep Token – Emergence
• Spiritbox – Soft Spine

Rap

Best Rap Performance

Winner: Clipse, Pusha T & Malice feat Kendrick Lamar & Pharrell Williams – Chains & Whips

Nominees:

• Cardi B – Outside
• Doechii – Anxiety
• Kendrick Lamar feat Lefty Gunplay – TV Off
• Tyler, The Creator feat Teezo Touchdown – Darling, I

Best Melodic Rap Performance

Winner: Kendrick Lamar featuring SZA – Luther

Nominees:

• Fridayy feat Meek Mill – Proud Of Me
• JID feat Ty Dolla $ign & 6Lack – Wholeheartedly
• Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon feat. Rapsody – WeMaj
• Partynextdoor & Drake – Somebody Loves Me

Best Rap Song

Winner: Kendrick Lamar feat Lefty Gunplay – TV Off

Nominees:

• Doechii – Anxiety
• Clipse, Pusha T & Malice feat John Legend & Voices of Fire – The Birds Don’t Sing
• Tyler, The Creator feat GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil Wayne – Sticky
• GloRilla – TGIF

Best Rap Album

Winner: Kendrick Lamar – GNX

Nominees:

• Clipse, Pusha T & Malice – Let God Sort Em Out
• GloRilla – Glorious
• JID – God Does Like Ugly
• Tyler, the Creator – Chromakopia

Country

Best Country Solo Performance

Winner: Chris Stapleton – Bad As I Used To Be

Nominees:

• Tyler Childers – Nose On The Grindstone
• Shaboozey – Good News
• Zach Top – I Never Lie
• Lainey Wilson – Somewhere Over Laredo

Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group

Winner: Shaboozey & Jelly Roll – Amen

Nominees:

• Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton – A Song To Sing
• Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson – Trailblazer
• Margo Price & Tyler Childers – Love Me Like You Used To Do
• George Strait & Chris Stapleton – Honky Tonk Hall Of Fame

Best Country Song

Winner: Tyler Childers – Bitin’ List

Nominees:

• Shaboozey – Good News
• Zach Top – I Never Lie
• Lainey Wilson – Somewhere Over Laredo
• Chris Stapleton – A Song To Sing

Best Contemporary Country Album

Winner: Jelly Roll – Beautifully Broken

Nominees:

• Kelsea Ballerini – Patterns
• Tyler Childers – Snipe Hunter
• Eric Church – Evangeline vs The Machine
• Miranda Lambert – Postcards From Texas

R&B and Afrobeats

Best R&B Performance

Winner: Kehlani – Folded

Nominees:

• Justin Bieber – Yukon
• Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller – It Depends
• Leon Thomas – Mutt (Live From NPR’s Tiny Desk)
• Summer Walker – Heart Of A Woman

Best R&B Song

Winner: Kehlani – Folded

Nominees:

• Summer Walker – Heart Of A Woman
• Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller – It Depends
• Durand Bernard – Overqualified
• Leon Thomas – Yes It Is

Best R&B Album

Winner: Leon Thomas – Mutt

Nominees:

• Giveon – Beloved
• Coco Jones – Why Not More?
• Ledisi – The Crown
• Teyana Taylor – Escape Room

Best African Musical Performance

Winner: Tyla – Push 2 Start

Nominees:

• Burna Boy – Love
• Davido feat. Omah Lay – With You
• Eddy Kenzo & Mehran Matin – Hope & Love
• Ayra Starr feat Wizkid – Gimme Dat

Producing and writing songs

Producer of the Year (Non-Classical Music)

Winner: Cirkut (Lady Gaga, Rosé, Jade)

Nominees:

• Dan Auerbach
• Dijon
• Blake Mills
• Soundwave

Songwriter of the Year (Non-Classical Music)

Winner: Amy Allen (Rosé, Jennie, Sabrina Carpenter)

Nominees:

• Edgar Barrera
• Jessie Jo Dillon
• Tobias Jesso Jr.
• Laura Veltz

Cinema and television

Best Comedy Album

Winner: Nate Bargatze – Your Friend, Nate Bargatze

Nominees:

• Bill Burr – Drop Dead Years
• Sarah Silverman – PostMortem
• Ali Wong – Single Lady
• Jamie Foxx – What Had Happened Was

Best compilation of soundtracks for visual media

Winner: Sinners – Various artists

Nominees:

• A Complete Unknown – Timothée Chalamet
• F1 The Album – Various artists
• K-Pop Demon Hunters – Various artists
• Wicked – Various artists

Best Soundtrack for Visual Media (Including Film and Television)

Winner: Ludwig Göransson – Sinners

Nominees:

• John Powell – How To Train Your Dragon
• Theodore Shapiro – Severance: Season 2
• John Powell & Stephen Schwartz – Wicked
• Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot

Best Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media

Winner: Austin Wintory – Sword of the Sea

Nominees:

• Pinar Toprak – Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Secrets of the Spires
• Wilbert Roget II – Helldivers 2
• Gordy Haab – Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Cody Matthew Johnson & Wilbert Roget II – Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate’s Fortune

Best Song Written for Visual Media

Winner: Huntr/x – Golden (From K-Pop Demon Hunters)

Nominees:

• Nine Inch Nails – As Alive As You Need Me To Be (From Tron: Ares)
• Miles Caton – I Lied To You (From Sinners)
• Elton John & Brandi Carlile – Never Too Late (From Elton John: Never Too Late)
• Jayme Lawson – Pale Pale Moon (From Sinners)
• Rod Wave – Sinners (From Sinners)

Best Audiobook Voiceover

Winner: Dalai Lama – Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Nominees:

• Kathy Garver – Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story
• Trevor Noah – Into The Uncut Grass
• Ketanji Brown Jackson – Lovely One: A Memoir
• Fab Morvan – You Know It’s True: The Real Story Of Milli Vanilli

Best Music Video

Winner: Doechii – Anxiety

Director: James McKell. Producers: Pablo Feldman, Jolene Mendes, Sofia Sabella.

Nominees:

• Sade – Young Lion
• Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
• Clipse – So Be It
• OK Go – Love

Best Musical Film

Winner: John Williams – Music by John Williams

Nominees:

• Devo – Devo
• Raye – Live at the Albert Hall
• Diane Warren – Relentless
• Pharrell Williams – Piece By Piece

Jazz and classical music

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Winner: Samara Joy – Portrait

Nominees:

• Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap – Elemental
• Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell – We Insist 2025!
• Michael Mayo – Fly
• Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold & Rachel Eckroth – Live at Vic’s Las Vegas

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Winner: Sullivan Fortner feat. Peter Washington & Marcus Gilmore – Southern Nights

Nominees:

• Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade – Trilogy 3 (Live)
• Branford Marsalis Quartet – Belonging
• John Patitucci feat Chris Potter & Brian Blade – Spirit Fall
• Yellowjackets – Fasten Up

Best Alternative Jazz Album

Winner: Nate Smith – Live-Action

Nominees:

• Ambrose Akinmusire – Honey from a Winter Stone
• Robert Glasper – Keys To The City Volume One
• Brad Mehldau – Ride Into The Sun
• Immanuel Wilkins – Blues Blood

Best Jazz Performance

Winner: Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade – Windows (Live)

Nominees:

• Lakecia Benjamin feat Immanuel Wilkins & Mark Whitfield – Noble Rise
• Samara Joy – Peace Of Mind/Dreams Come True
• Michael Mayo – Four
• Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold & Rachel Eckroth – All Stars Lead To You (Live)

Best Musical Theater Album

Winner: Buena Vista Social Club

Nominees:

• Death Becomes Her
• Gypsy
• Just In Time
• Maybe a Happy Ending

Best Opera Recording

Winner: Heggie: Intelligence – Kwamé Ryan, conductor (Houston Grand Opera; Gene Scheer)

Nominees:

• Huang Ruo: An American Soldier – Carolyn Kuan, conductor (American Composers Orchestra; David Henry Hwang)
• Kouyoumdjian – Adoration Alan Pierson, conductor (Silvana Quartet; The Choir Of Trinity Wall Street)
• O’Halloran: Trade & Mary Motorhead – Elaine Kelly (Irish National Opera Orchestra; Mark O’Halloran)
• Tesori: Grounded – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus; George Brant)

Best Orchestral Performance

Winner: Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie – Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Nominees:

• Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L’Ouverture; Ballade Op. 4; Suites From ’24 Negro Melodies’ – Michael Repper, conductor (National Philharmonic)
• Ravel: Boléro – Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Of Venezuela)
• Still & Bonds – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)
• Stravinsky: Symphony In Three Movements – Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

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