2026 GRAMMY Awards

Alison Krauss & Union Station

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SET® Tools user since 2025

2026 Nominations:

• Best American Roots Performance - “Richmond on the James” - Alison Krauss & Union Station
• Best Bluegrass Album - Arcadia - Alison Krauss & Union Station
• Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical - Arcadia; Neal Cappellino & Gary Paczosa, engineers; Brad Blackwood, mastering engineer (Alison Krauss & Union Station)

Anthony Hamilton

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AARP

2026 Nominations:

• Best Spoken Word Poetry Album - Pages - Omari Hardwick & Anthony Hamilton

ASTROPICAL

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SET® Tools user since 2025

2026 Nominations:

• Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album - ASTROPICAL - Bomba Estéreo, Rawayana, & ASTROPICAL

Billy Strings

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SET® Tools user since 2025

2026 Nominations:

• WINNER! Best Bluegrass Album - Highway Prayers - Billy Strings 

Bobby Pulido

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Dr Pepper
Ford

2026 Nominations:

• Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano) - Bobby Pulido & Friends Una Tuya Y Una Mía - Por La Puerta Grande [En Vivo] - Bobby Pulido

Brandi Carlile

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SET® Tools user since 2022

2026 Nominations:

• Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album - Who Believes In Angels? - Elton John & Brandi Carlile
• Best Song Written For Visual Media - “Never Too Late” — From Elton John: Never Too Late; Brandi Carlile, Elton John, Bernie Taupin & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Elton John, Brandi Carlile)

Chris Stapleton

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SET® Tools user since 2024

2026 Nominations:

• WINNER! Best Country Solo Performance - “Bad As I Used To Be” (from F1®, the movie) - Chris Stapleton
• Best Country Duo/Group Performance - “A Song To Sing” - Miranda Lambert And Chris Stapleton
• Best Country Duo/Group Performance - “Honky Tonk Hall Of Fame” - George Strait, Chris Stapleton
• Best Country Song - “A Song To Sing” - Jenee Fleenor, Jesse Frasure, Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Miranda Lambert And Chris Stapleton)

Clipse

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SET® Tools user since 2025

2026 Nominations:

• Album Of The Year - Let God Sort Em Out - Clipse, Pusha T & Malice; Pharrell Williams, featured artist; Pharrell Williams, producer; Mike Larson, Manny Marroquin, Rob Ulsh & Pharrell Williams, engineers/mixers; Gene Elliott Thornton Jr., Terrence Thornton & Pharrell Williams, songwriters; Zach Pereyra, mastering engineer
• WINNER! Best Rap Performance - “Chains & Whips” - Clipse, Pusha T & Malice Featuring Kendrick Lamar & Pharrell Williams
• Best Rap Song - “The Birds Don't Sing” - Gene Elliott Thornton Jr., Terrence Thornton, Pharrell Williams & Stevie Wonder, songwriters (Clipse, Pusha T & Malice Featuring John Legend & Voices Of Fire)
• Best Rap Album - Let God Sort Em Out - Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
• Best Music Video - “So Be It” - Clipse; Hannan Hussain, video director; Daniel Order, video producer    

Coco Jones

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Spectrum
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2026 Nominations:

• Best R&B Album - Why Not More - Coco Jones

Davido

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SET® Tools user since 2024

2026 Nominations:

• Best African Music Performance - “With You” - Davido Featuring Omah Lay

Feid

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Lexus

2026 Nominations:

• Best Música Urbana Album - FERXXO VOL X: Sagrado - Feid

Ghost

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SET® Tools user since 2024

2026 Nominations:

• Best Metal Performance - “Lachryma” - Ghost

Japanese Breakfast

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SET® Tools user since 2024

2026 Nominations:

• Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical - For Melancholy Brunettes & sad women; Joseph Lorge, Blake Mills & Sebastian Reunert, engineers; Patricia Sullivan, mastering engineer (Japanese Breakfast)

Jelly Roll

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SET® Tools user since 2022

2026 Nominations:

• WINNER! Best Country Duo/Group Performance - “Amen” - Shaboozey & Jelly Roll
• WINNER! Best Contemporary Country Album - Beautifully Broken - Jelly Roll
• WINNER! Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song - “Hard Fought Hallelujah” - Brandon Lake With Jelly Roll; Chris Brown, Jason Bradley Deford, Steven Furtick, Benjamin William Hastings & Brandon Lake, songwriters

John Legend

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SET® Tools user since 2023

2026 Nominations:

• Best Rap Song - “The Birds Don't Sing” - Gene Elliott Thornton Jr., Terrence Thornton, Pharrell Williams & Stevie Wonder, songwriters (Clipse, Pusha T & Malice Featuring John Legend & Voices Of Fire)
• Best Gospel Performance/Song - “Church” - Tasha Cobbs Leonard, John Legend; Anthony S. Brown, Brunes Charles, Annatoria Chitapa, Kenneth Leonard, Jr., Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Jonas Myrin, songwriters

Jon Batiste

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Lincoln

2026 Nominations:

• Best American Roots Performance - “LONELY AVENUE” - Jon Batiste Featuring Randy Newman
  
• Best American Roots Song - “BIG MONEY” - Jon Batiste, Mike Elizondo & Steve McEwan, songwriters (Jon Batiste)
  
• WINNER! Best Americana Album - BIG MONEY - Jon Batiste
  

Jonathan McReynolds

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SET® Tools user since 2025

2026 Nominations:

• Best Gospel Performance/Song - “Still Live” - Jonathan McReynolds & Jamal Roberts; Britney Delagraentiss, Jonathan McReynolds, David Lamar Outing III, Orlando Joel Palmer & Terrell Demetrius Wilson, songwriters

Kelsea Ballerini

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SET® Tools user since 2024

2026 Nominations:

• Best Contemporary Country Album - Patterns - Kelsea Ballerini

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

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SET® Tools user since 2023

2026 Nominations:

• Best Traditional Blues Album - Young Fashioned Ways - Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Bobby Rush

Kirk Franklin

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AARP
SET® Tools user since 2022

2026 Nominations:

• Best Gospel Performance/Song - “Do It Again” - Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, songwriter

Lainey Wilson

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Ford
SET® Tools user since 2023

2026 Nominations:

• Best Country Solo Performance - “Somewhere Over Laredo” - Lainey Wilson
• Best Country Duo/Group Performance - “Trailblazer” -  Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson
• Best Country Song - “Somewhere Over Laredo” - Andy Albert, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson & Lainey Wilson, songwriters (Lainey Wilson)

Lalah Hathaway

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AARP

2026 Nominations:

• Best Traditional R&B Performance - “UPTOWN” - Lalah Hathaway

Larkin Poe

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SET® Tools user since 2023

2026 Nominations:

• Best Americana Album - Bloom - Larkin Poe

Lawrence

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SET® Tools user since 2022

2026 Nominations:

• Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals - “Something In The Water — Acoustic-Ish” - Clyde Lawrence, Gracie Lawrence & Linus Lawrence, arrangers (Lawrence)

Lecrae

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USMC (x3)
SET® Tools user since 2023

2026 Nominations:

• Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song - “Headphones” - Lecrae, Killer Mike, T.I.; Bongo ByTheWay, Clifford Harris, William Roderick Miller, Lecrae Moore, Michael Render & Tyshane Thompson, songwriters
  
• Best Contemporary Christian Music Album - Reconstruction - Lecrae
  

Ledisi

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SET® Tools user since 2025

2026 Nominations:

• Best Traditional R&B Performance - “LOVE YOU TOO” - Ledisi
• Best R&B Album - The Crown - Ledisi

Leon Thomas

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SET® Tools user since 2024

2026 Nominations:

• Album Of The Year - MUTT - Leon Thomas; Freaky Rob, Peter Lee Johnson, D. Phelps & Leon Thomas, producers; Jean-Marie Horvat, engineer/mixer; Lazaro Andres Camejo, Freaky Rob, Peter Lee Johnson, D. Phelps & Leon Thomas, songwriters; Dave Kutch, mastering engineer
• Best New Artist - Leon Thomas
• Best R&B Performance - “MUTT — Live From NPR's Tiny Desk” - Leon Thomas
• Best Traditional R&B Performance - “VIBES DON'T LIE” - Leon Thomas
• Best R&B Song - “YES IT IS” - Jariuce Banks, Lazaro Andres Camejo, Mike Hector, Peter Lee Johnson, Rodney Jones Jr., Ali Prawl & Leon Thomas, songwriters (Leon Thomas)
• WINNER! Best R&B Album - MUTT - Leon Thomas    

Maggie Rose

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SET® Tools user since 2023

2026 Nominations:

• Best Americana Performance - “Poison In My Well” - Maggie Rose & Grace Potter

Mega Ran

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Coors Light (x2)

2026 Nominations:

• Best Children's Music Album - Buddy's Magic Tree House - Mega Ran

Miranda Lambert

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SET® Tools user since 2022

2026 Nominations:

• Best Country Duo/Group Performance - “A Song To Sing” - Miranda Lambert And Chris Stapleton
• Best Country Duo/Group Performance - “Trailblazer” - Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson
• Best Country Song - “A Song To Sing” - Jenee Fleenor, Jesse Frasure, Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Miranda Lambert And Chris Stapleton)
• Best Contemporary Country Album - Postcards From Texas - Miranda Lambert

OK Go

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Dr Pepper

2026 Nominations:

• Best Music Video - “Love” - OK Go; Aaron Duffy, Miguel Espada & Damian Kulash Jr., video directors; Petra Ahmann, video producer
• Best Recording Package - And The Adjacent Possible; Hà Trinh Quoc Bao, Damian Kulash, Jr., Claudio Ripol, Wombi Rose & Yuri Suzuki, art directors (OK Go)

Patty Griffin

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SET® Tools user since 2025

2026 Nominations:

• Best Folk Album - Crown Of Roses - Patty Griffin

PJ Morton

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Ford

2026 Nominations:

• Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song - “Amazing” - Darrel Walls, PJ Morton; PJ Morton & Darrel Walls, songwriters
• WINNER! Best Gospel Album - Heart Of Mine - Darrel Walls, PJ Morton

Rawayana

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Motel 6

2026 Nominations:

• Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album - ASTROPICAL - Bomba Estéreo, Rawayana, ASTROPICAL
  
  

Samantha Fish

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SET® Tools user since 2024

2026 Nominations:

• Best Contemporary Blues Album - Paper Doll - Samantha Fish

Southern Avenue

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SET® Tools user since 2023

2026 Nominations:

• Best Contemporary Blues Album - Family - Southern Avenue

Trombone Shorty

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AARP

2026 Nominations:

• Best Regional Roots Music Album - Second Line Sunday - Trombone Shorty And New Breed Brass Band

Tyler Childers

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SET® Tools user since 2022

2026 Nominations:

• Best Country Solo Performance - “Nose On The Grindstone” - Tyler Childers
• Best Country Duo/Group Performance - “Love Me Like You Used To Do” - Margo Price & Tyler Childers
• WINNER! Best Country Song - “Bitin’ List” - Tyler Childers, songwriter (Tyler Childers)
• Best Contemporary Country Album - Snipe Hunter - Tyler Childers

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