The 2026 Grammy nominations have arrived, and alongside the deserving nominees, there are some less-than-deserving snubs.
This 12 months’s shortlists — taken from albums and songs launched throughout the eligibility interval of August thirty first, 2024, to August thirtieth, 2025 — is, for essentially the most half, an undeniably proficient and worthy listing of artists working on the high of their recreation. Tyler, the Creator and Kendrick Lamar are swimming in nominations, with Girl Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter, Unhealthy Bunny, and the ever-ubiquitous producer Jack Antonoff additionally accruing some main nods.
However with such restricted choices for every class, it begs the apparent query: Who bought snubbed? It’s at all times fascinating to see how the Recording Academy’s preferences play out with these classes, as loads of the 12 months’s greatest music usually slips below the radar merely for the truth that it didn’t attain the specified viewers. Positive, Cameron Winter’s Heavy Metallic was an indie favourite over the past 12 months, however can you actually blame the Recording Academy for not being keyed in on the hype?
However, this 12 months’s nomination listing is definitely omitting fairly a number of ultra-popular artists that you simply would possibly anticipate to have huge Grammys success in 2026. Alex Warren bought a nod for Greatest New Artist, however his ubiquitous slog “Unusual” was (appropriately) shut out from the foremost track classes. No love for Benson Boone both, who backflipped his means by final 12 months’s ceremony. Plus, you’d suppose that when scrolling the grasp listing of nominees you’d see the names “Gracie Abrams” and “Position Mannequin” on there, however nope, neither of them are nominated. To us, these aren’t snubs, as a result of, properly, their music is simply fantastic.
There are, nonetheless, a number of shocking misses, particularly given how a few of these snubbed artists had been honored in sure classes. Dijon, FKA twigs, Miley Cyrus, and Fragrance Genius acquired welcome nods, however not precisely within the classes we’d put them in.
Learn on for our listing of the ten greatest snubs from this 12 months’s Grammy nominations, and see a full listing of the nominees in all main classes right here.
