The Recording Academy has revealed the 68th Annual GRAMMY® nominations! The livestream reveal included presentations by The Orchard distributed artists Nicole Scherzinger of Sunset BLVD and Mumford & Sons (Glassnote Music). The awards will take place on February 1st, 2026 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA. Congratulations to The Orchard’s labels and partners on 50+ nominations!
Bad Bunny (Rimas Entertainment) has earned 6 nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year for hit song “DtMF” as well as Album of the Year, Best Album Cover, Best Música Urbana Album for DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS. He also locked in a nomination for Best Global Music Performance for “EoO”. He’s the first Spanish-language artist to be up for Best Album, Best Record, and Best Song in the same year.
Country star Kelsea Ballerini (Black River Entertainment) received her 6th GRAMMY® nomination for Best Contemporary Country Album for PATTERNS.
Americana artist Jason Isbell (Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers) scored 3 nominations for Best Folk Album for Foxes In The Snow, Best American Roots Performance for “Crimson And Clay”, and Best American Roots Song “Foxes In The Snow”.
RAYE (Human Re Sources) received her 3rd GRAMMY® nomination as a solo artist for Best Music Film for Live At The Royal Albert Hall.
Mexican group Grupo Frontera (BorderTown Records) earned their first GRAMMY® nomination for Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano) for Y Lo Que Viene.
Youssou N’Dour (Youssou N’Dour & TBI Publishing) has gained his 7th GRAMMY® nomination for Best Global Music Album for Eclairer le monde – Light the World.
Find the full list of nominations for this year’s GRAMMY® Awards here and The Orchard distributed artists and labels below.
Record of the Year
- Bad Bunny – “DtMF” (Rimas Entertainment)
Album of the Year
- Bad Bunny – DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Rimas Entertainment)
Song of the Year
- Bad Bunny – “DtMF” (Rimas Entertainment)
Best Metal Performance
- Dream Theater – “Night Terror” (Century Media)
Best Jazz Performance
- Michael Mayo – “Four” (Mack Avenue Records)
- Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold & Rachel Eckroth – “All Stars Lead To You – Live” (La Reserve Records)
Best Jazz Vocal Album
- Michael Mayo – Fly (Mack Avenue Records)
- Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold & Rachel Eckroth – Live at Vic’s Las Vegas (La Reserve Records)
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
- John Patitucci Featuring Chris Potter & Brian Blade – Spirit Fall (Edition Records Ltd.)
- Yellowjackets – Fasten Up (Mack Avenue Records)
Best Latin Jazz Album
- Miguel Zenón Quartet – Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard (MRI Entertainment)
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
- Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez – BEATrio (Thirty Tigers)
Best Contemporary Country Album
- Kelsea Ballerini – PATTERNS (Black River Entertainment)
Best American Roots Performance
- Jason Isbell – “Crimson And Clay” (Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers)
Best Americana Album
- Larkin Poe – Bloom (Tricki-Woo / MRI)
Best Traditional Blues Album
- Maria Muldaur – One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (Nola Blue Records)
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Bobby Rush – Young Fashioned Ways (Deep Rush / Thirty Tigers)
Best Folk Album
- Patty Griffin – Crown Of Roses (PGM / Thirty Tigers)
- Jason Isbell – Foxes In The Snow (Southeastern Records / Thirty Tigers)
Best Regional Roots Music Album
- Various Artists – A Tribute to the King of Zydeco (Select O Hits)
Best Gospel Performance/Song
- Kirk Franklin – “Do It Again” (Fo Yo Soul Recordings / Tribl Records)
Best Gospel Album
- Tamela Mann – Live Breathe Fight (TillyMann Music Group)
Best Roots Gospel Album
- Karen Peck & New River – Good Answers (Daywind Records / New Day)
- Candi Staton – Back To My Roots (Daywind Records / New Day)
Best Música Urbana Album
- Bad Bunny – DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Rimas Entertainment)
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
- Aterciopelados – Genes Rebeldes (Entre Casa Colombia)
Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)
- Grupo Frontera – Y Lo Que Viene (BorderTown Records)
Best Global Music Performance
- Bad Bunny – “EoO” (Rimas Entertainment)
Best Global Music Album
- Youssou N’Dour – Eclairer le monde – Light the World (Youssou N’Dour & TBI Publishing)
Best Reggae Album
- Mortimer – From Within (Overstand Entertainment / MRI)
- Jesse Royal – No Place Like Home (Easy Star Records / MRI)
Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
- Dalai Lama – Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Glassnote Music LLC)
Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film And Television)
- Theodore Shapiro, composer – Severance: Season 2 (Soundtrack Records, Inc. (prev. Lakeshore Records))
Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media
- Pinar Toprak, composer – Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Secrets of the Spires (Soundtrack Records, Inc. (prev. Lakeshore Records))
Best Music Film
- Raye, Paul Dugdale, video director; Stefan Demetriou & Amy James, video producers – Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Human Re Sources)
Best Album Cover
- Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, art director (Bad Bunny) – Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment)
Best Album Notes
- Alec Palao, album notes writer (Sly & The Family Stone) – The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967 (BFD)
Best Engineered Album, Classical
- Morten Lindberg, engineer; Morten Lindberg, mastering engineer (Trio Mediæval) – Yule (Lindberg Lyd AS)
Producer Of The Year, Classical
- Morten Lindberg (Lindberg Lyd AS)
- Sergei Kvitko (BGR (Blue Griffin Recording))
Best Immersive Audio Album
- Andrés Mayo & Martín Muscatello, immersive mix engineers; Andrés Mayo & Martín Muscatello, immersive producers (Various Artists) – An Immersive Tribute To Astor Piazzolla (Live) (Andrés Alberto Mayo)
- Morten Lindberg, immersive mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive mastering engineer; Arve Henriksen & Morten Lindberg, immersive producers (Trio Mediæval) – Yule (Lindberg Lyd AS)
Best Instrumental Composition
- Miho Hazama, composer (Miho Hazama, Danish Radio Big Band & Danish National Symphony Orchestra) – “Live Life This Day: Movement I” (Edition Records)
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
- Andy Clausen, Addison Maye-Saxon, Riley Mulherkar & Chloe Rowlands, arrangers (The Westerlies) – “Fight On” (MRI Entertainment)
Best Orchestral Performance
- Michael Repper, conductor (National Philharmonic) – “Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L’Ouverture; Ballade Op. 4; Suites From ’24 Negro Melodies'” (AVIE Records / Music Company (London) Ltd.)
Best Opera Recording
- Alan Pierson, conductor; Miriam Khalil, Marc Kudisch, David Adam Moore, Omar Najmi, Naomi Louisa O’Connell & Karim Sulayman; Mary Kouyoumdjian, producer (Silvana Quartet; The Choir Of Trinity Wall Street) – Kouyoumdjian: Adoration (Live) (MRI Entertainment)
- Elaine Kelly, conductor; Oisín Ó Dálaigh & John Molloy; Alex Dowling & Emma O’Halloran, producers (Irish National Opera Orchestra; Mark O’Halloran) – O’Halloran: Trade & Mary Motorhead (Signum Records)
Best Choral Performance
- Steven Fox, conductor; Emily Drennan & Patti Drennan, chorus masters (Brian Giebler & Sangeeta Kaur; The Clarion Choir) – “Requiem of Light” (Hitskope Records LLC)
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
- Allison Charney, soloist; Benjamin Loeb, conductor (National Symphonia Orchestra) – ALIKE – My Mother’s Dream (Hitskope Records LLC)
- Susan Narucki, soloist; Curtis Macomber, artist – Kurtág: Kafka Fragments (AVIE Records / Music Company (London) Ltd.)
Best Classical Compendium
- Janai Brugger, Isolde Fair, MB Gordy & Starr Parodi; Nicholas Dodd, conductor; Jeff Fair, Starr Parodi & Kitt Wakeley, producers – Se7en Seasons (Hitskope Records)
