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Kendrick Lamar led the 2026 Grammy nominations with nine

Retrospective: November’s announcement began the final voting stage, rather than declaring winners.

By NewsTumble · Published October 25, 2026
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Event / announcement date
2025-11-07
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2025-11-07
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2026-10-25T23:31:46Z
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Kendrick Lamar smiling at the 2018 Pulitzer Prize ceremony.
Kendrick Lamar at the May 30, 2018 Pulitzer Prize ceremony. Archival portrait; it does not show the 2026 Grammy nominations announcement. · Fuzheado (Andrew Lih) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0; resized and converted to progressive JPEG. This derivative retains CC BY-SA 4.0. · Aspect-preserving resize and progressive JPEG export; no subject or scene changes. · Image source ↗ · cc-by-sa-4.0 ↗

The Recording Academy announced the 2026 Grammy nominations on November 7, 2025, with Kendrick Lamar leading on nine. Cirkut, Jack Antonoff and Lady Gaga each received seven nominations; Bad Bunny, Leon Thomas, Sabrina Carpenter and Serban Ghenea each had six. [1]

The general-field nominations included Lamar’s GNX, Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS and Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM for album of the year. The best new artist field included Olivia Dean, KATSEYE, The Marías, Addison Rae, sombr, Leon Thomas, Alex Warren and Lola Young. [1]

The announcement covered 95 categories across 12 fields. Eligible recordings had been released from August 31, 2024 through August 30, 2025, and the Academy scheduled final voting for December 12, 2025 through January 5, 2026. The November list represented nominations; it did not establish which artists would win at the February ceremony. [1]

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  1. Recording Academy: 2026 GRAMMY AWARDS NOMINATIONS REVEALED: A CELEBRATION OF A LANDMARK YEAR IN MUSIC ↗
    Source published 2025-11-07 · reviewed October 25, 2026
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