Morgan Wallen is reportedly not submitting his music for consideration on the 2026 Grammy Awards.
Morgan Wallen is pulling a Drake and never submitting his music for consideration on the 2026 Grammys
The 32-year-old nation star could be driving excessive within the charts with I’m the Downside nonetheless sitting atop the Billboard 200 after 11 weeks, however Billboard claims none of his music can be entered for any of the classes on the ceremony subsequent February.
Hits Day by day Double was first to report that the album was not going to be submitted, however Billboard was knowledgeable the snub applies to all his music.
Nevertheless, any of the artists featured on the file, together with Tate McRae, Publish Malone, Eric Church and HARDY, will not be stopped from submitting their tracks.
The Grammys are the one awards that did not block Morgan from submitting his work after he used a racial slur in 2021. The Academy of Nation Music Awards and the Nation Music Affiliation Awards took away his eligibility for a complete yr.
Morgan hasn’t acquired any Grammy nominations for his solo work up to now, solely two nods for his Publish Malone duet I Had Some Assist (Finest Nation Tune and Finest Nation Duo/Group Efficiency).
After video footage of the incident circulated on-line, Morgan was additionally suspended from his file label contract and faraway from radio airplay.
The Final Evening later admitted there was “no excuse” for him utilizing the slur and he was “mad” at himself for a way a lot he had “tousled”.
He stated on the time: “There’s no excuse. I’ve by no means made an excuse. I by no means will make an excuse.
“I’ve talked to lots of people, heard tales [about] issues that I’d have by no means considered as a result of I wasn’t the one going via it.
“And I believe, for me, in my coronary heart I used to be by no means that man that individuals had been portraying me to be, so there was slightly little bit of like, ‘Rattling, I’m sort of truly mad about this slightly bit as a result of I do know I shouldn’t have stated this, however I’m actually not that man.’
“I put myself in simply such a s*** spot, you already know? Like, ‘You actually tousled right here, man.’ If I used to be that man, then I wouldn’t have cared. I wouldn’t have apologised. I wouldn’t have performed any of that if I actually was that man that individuals had been saying about me.”
Morgan joins a rising checklist of artists who’ve distanced themselves from the Grammys, following within the footsteps of The Weeknd and Drake – each of whom walked away after feeling ignored by the Recording Academy.
