The 2026 Grammy Awards will take place on February 1, 2026.
Here are all the nominees:
General Field
Field 01: Pop & Dance/Electronic
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Best Pop Solo Performance
- "DAISIES" — Justin Bieber
- "Manchild" — Sabrina Carpenter
- "Disease" — Lady Gaga
- "The Subway" — Chappell Roan
- "Messy" — Lola Young
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Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
- "Defying Gravity" — Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande
- "Golden" (from KPop Demon Hunters) — HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI
- "Gabriela" — KATSEYE
- "APT." — ROSÉ & Bruno Mars
- "30 for 30" — SZA featuring Kendrick Lamar
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Best Pop Vocal Album
- SWAG — Justin Bieber
- Man's Best Friend — Sabrina Carpenter
- Something Beautiful — Miley Cyrus
- MAYHEM — Lady Gaga
- I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2) — Teddy Swims
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Best Dance/Electronic Recording
- "No Cap" — Disclosure & Anderson .Paak
- "Victory Lap" — Fred again.., Skepta, & PlaqueBoyMax
- "SPACE INVADER" — KAYTRANADA
- "VOLTAGE" — Skrillex
- "End of Summer" — Tame Impala
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Best Dance Pop Recording
- "Bluest Flame" — Selena Gomez and benny blanco
- "Abracadabra" — Lady Gaga
- "Midnight Sun" — Zara Larsson
- "Just Keep Watching" (from F1® the Movie) — Tate McRae
- "Illegal" — PinkPantheress
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Best Dance/Electronic Album
- EUSEXUA — FKA twigs
- Ten Days — Fred again..
- Fancy That — PinkPantheress
- Inhale / Exhale — RÜFÜS DU SOL
- F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3 — Skrillex
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Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
- "Abracadabra" (Gesaffelstein Remix) — Lady Gaga / Gesaffelstein
- "Don't Forget About Us" — Mariah Carey / KAYTRANADA
- "A Dreams a Dream" (Ron Trent Refix) — Soul II Soul / Ron Trent)
- "Galvanize" — (The Chemical Brothers / Chris Lake)
- "Golden" (David Guetta REM/X) — (HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI / David Guetta
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Field 02: Rock, Metal & Alternative
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Best Rock Performance
- "U Should Not Be Doing That" — Amyl and the Sniffers
- "The Emptiness Machine" — Linkin Park
- "NEVER ENOUGH" — Turnstile
- "Mirtazapine" — Hayley Williams
- "Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back to the Beginning" — YUNGBLUD featuring Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman and II of Sleep Token
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Best Metal Performance
- "Night Terror" — Dream Theater
- "Lachryma" — Ghost
- "Emergence" — Sleep Token
- "Soft Spine" — Spiritbox
- "BIRDS" — Turnstile
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Best Rock Song
- "As Alive as You Need Me to Be" — Nine Inch Nails
- "Caramel" — Sleep Token
- "Glum" — Hayley Williams
- "NEVER ENOUGH" — Turnstile
- "Zombie" — YUNGBLUD
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Best Rock Album
- private music — Deftones
- I quit — HAIM
- From Zero — Linkin Park
- NEVER ENOUGH — Turnstile
- Idols — YUNGBLUD
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Best Alternative Music Performance
- "Everything Is Peaceful Love" — Bon Iver
- "Alone" — The Cure
- "SEEIN' STARS" — Turnstile
- "mangetout" — Wet Leg
- "Parachute" — Hayley Williams
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Best Alternative Music Album
- SABLE, fABLE — Bon Iver
- Songs of a Lost World — The Cure
- DON'T TAP THE GLASS — Tyler, the Creator
- moisturizer — Wet Leg
- Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party — Hayley Williams
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Field 03: R&B, Rap & Spoken Word Poetry
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Best R&B Performance
- "YUKON" — Justin Bieber
- "It Depends" — Chris Brown featuring Bryson Tiller
- "Folded" — Kehlani
- "MUTT (Live from NPR's Tiny Desk)" — Leon Thomas
- "Heart of a Woman" — Summer Walker
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Best Traditional R&B Performance
- "Here We Are" — Durand Bernarr
- "UPTOWN" — Lalah Hathaway
- "LOVE YOU TOO" — Ledisi
- "Crybaby" — SZA
- "VIBES DON'T LIE" — Leon Thomas
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Best R&B Song
- "Folded" — Kehlani
- "Heart of a Woman" — Summer Walker
- "It Depends" — Chris Brown featuring Bryson Tiller
- "Overqualified" — Durand Bernarr
- "YES IT IS" — Leon Thomas
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Best Progressive R&B Album
- BLOOM — Durand Bernarr
- Adjust Brightness — Bilal
- LOVE ON DIGITAL — Destin Conrad
- Access All Areas — FLO
- Come As You Are — Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon
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Best R&B Album
- BELOVED — Giveon
- Why Not More? — Coco Jones
- The Crown — Ledisi
- Escape Room — Teyana Taylor
- MUTT — Leon Thomas
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Best Rap Performance
- "Outside" — Cardi B
- "Chains & Whips" — Clipse, Pusha T & Malice featuring Kendrick Lamar & Pharrell Williams
- "Anxiety" — Doechii
- "tv off" — Kendrick Lamar featuring Lefty Gunplay
- "Darling, I" — Tyler, the Creator featuring Teezo Touchdown
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Best Melodic Rap Performance
- "Proud of Me" — Fridayy featuring Meek Mill
- "Wholeheartedly" — JID featuring Ty Dolla Sign & 6lack
- "luther" — Kendrick Lamar & SZA
- "WeMaj" — Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon featuring Rapsody
- "SOMEBODY LOVES ME" — PartyNextDoor & Drake
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Best Rap Song
- "Anxiety" — Doechii
- "The Birds Don't Sing" — Clipse, Pusha T & Malice featuring John Legend & Voices of Fire
- "Sticky" — Tyler, the Creator featuring GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil Wayne
- "TGIF" — GloRilla
- "tv off" — Kendrick Lamar featuring Lefty Gunplay
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Best Rap Album
- Let God Sort Em Out — Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
- GLORIOUS — GloRilla
- God Does Like Ugly — JID
- GNX — Kendrick Lamar
- CHROMAKOPIA — Tyler, the Creator
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Best Spoken Word Poetry Album
- A Hurricane in Heels: healed people don't act like that (partially recorded live @City Winery & other places) — Queen Sheba
- Black Shaman — Marc Marcel
- Pages — Omari Hardwick & Anthony Hamilton
- Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends at Treepeople — Saul Williams, Carlos Niño & Friends
- Words for Days Vol. 1 — Mad Skillz
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Field 04: Jazz, Traditional Pop, Contemporary Instrumental & Musical Theater
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Best Jazz Performance
- "Noble Rise" — Lakecia Benjamin featuring Immanuel Wilkins & Mark Whitfield
- "Windows (Live)" — Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade
- "Peace of Mind / Dreams Come True" — Samara Joy
- "Four" — Michael Mayo
- "All Stars Lead To You (Live)" — Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold, Rachel Eckroth & Sam Weber
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Best Jazz Vocal Album
- Elemental — Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap
- We Insist 2025! — Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell
- Portrait — Samara Joy
- Fly — Michael Mayo
- Live at Vic's Las Vegas — Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold, Rachel Eckroth & Sam Weber
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Best Jazz Instrumental Album
- Trilogy 3 (Live) — Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade
- Southern Nights — Sullivan Fortner featuring Peter Washington & Marcus Gilmore
- Belonging — Branford Marsalis Quartet
- Spirit Fall — John Patitucci featuring Chris Potter & Brian Blade
- Fasten Up — Yellowjackets
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Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
- Orchestrator Emulator — The 8-Bit Big Band
- Without Further Ado, Vol 1 — Christian McBride Big Band
- Lumen — Danilo Pérez & Bohuslän Big Band
- Basie Rocks — Deborah Silver & The Count Basie Orchestra
- Lights on a Satellite — Sun Ra Arkestra
- Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores — Kenny Wheeler Legacy featuring The Royal Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra & Frost Jazz Orchestra
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Best Latin Jazz Album
- La Fleur de Cayenne — Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band
- The Original Influencers: Dizzy, Chano & Chico — Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra featuring Pedrito Martinez, Daymé Arocena, Jon Faddis, Donald Harrison & Melvis Santa
- Mundoagua - Celebrating Carla Bley — Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
- A Tribute to Benny Moré and Nat King Cole — Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Yainer Horta & Joey Calveiro
- Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard — Miguel Zenón Quartet
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Best Alternative Jazz Album
- honey from a winter stone — Ambrose Akinmusire
- Keys To The City Volume One — Robert Glasper
- Ride into the Sun — Brad Mehldau
- LIVE-ACTION — Nate Smith
- Blues Blood — Immanuel Wilkins
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Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
- Wintersongs — Laila Biali
- The Gift Of Love — Jennifer Hudson
- Who Believes in Angels? — Elton John & Brandi Carlile
- Harlequin — Lady Gaga
- A Matter of Time — Laufey
- The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume 2 — Barbra Streisand
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Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
- Brightside — ARKAI
- Ones & Twos — Gerald Clayton
- BEATrio — Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez
- Just Us — Bob James & Dave Koz
- Shayan — Charu Suri
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Best Musical Theater Album
- Buena Vista Social Club — Original Broadway Cast
- Death Becomes Her — Original Broadway Cast
- Gypsy — 2024 Broadway Cast
- Just in Time — Original Broadway Cast
- Maybe Happy Ending — Original Broadway Cast
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Field 05: Country & American Roots
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Best Country Solo Performance
- "Nose on the Grindstone" — Tyler Childers
- "Good News" — Shaboozey
- "Bad as I Used to Be" (from F1® the Movie) — Chris Stapleton
- "I Never Lie" — Zach Top
- "Somewhere Over Laredo" — Lainey Wilson
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Best Country Duo/Group Performance
- "A Song to Sing" — Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton
- "Trailblazer" — Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert and Lainey Wilson
- "Love Me Like You Used to Do" — Margo Price and Tyler Childers
- "Amen" — Shaboozey and Jelly Roll
- "Honky Tonk Hall of Fame" — George Strait and Chris Stapleton
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Best Country Song
- "Bitin' List" — Tyler Childers
- "Good News" — Shaboozey
- "I Never Lie" — Zach Top
- "Somewhere Over Laredo" — Lainey Wilson
- "A Song to Sing" — Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton
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Best Traditional Country Album
- Dollar a Day — Charley Crockett
- American Romance — Lukas Nelson
- Oh What a Beautiful World — Willie Nelson
- Hard Headed Woman — Margo Price
- Ain't in It for My Health — Zach Top
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Best Contemporary Country Album
- Patterns — Kelsea Ballerini
- Snipe Hunter — Tyler Childers
- Evangeline Vs. the Machine — Eric Church
- Beautifully Broken — Jelly Roll
- Postcards from Texas — Miranda Lambert
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Best American Roots Performance
- "LONELY AVENUE" — Jon Batiste featuring Randy Newman
- "Ancient Light" — I'm With Her
- "Crimson and Clay" — Jason Isbell
- "Richmond on the James" — Alison Krauss & Union Station
- "Beautiful Strangers" — Mavis Staples
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Best Americana Performance
- "Boom" — Sierra Hull
- "Poison in My Well" — Maggie Rose & Grace Potter
- "Godspeed" — Mavis Staples
- "That's Gonna Leave a Mark" — Molly Tuttle
- "Horses" — Jesse Welles
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Best American Roots Song
- "Ancient Light" — I'm With Her
- "BIG MONEY" — Jon Batiste
- "Foxes in the Snow" — Jason Isbell
- "Middle" — Jesse Welles
- "Spitfire" — Sierra Hull
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Best Americana Album
- BIG MONEY — Jon Batiste
- Bloom — Larkin Poe
- Last Leaf on the Tree — Willie Nelson
- So Long Little Miss Sunshine — Molly Tuttle
- Middle — Jesse Welles
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Best Bluegrass Album
- Carter & Cleveland — Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter
- A Tip Toe High Wire — Sierra Hull
- Arcadia — Alison Krauss & Union Station
- Outrun — The Steeldrivers
- Highway Prayers — Billy Strings
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Best Traditional Blues Album
- Ain't Done with the Blues — Buddy Guy
- Room on the Porch — Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo'
- One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey — Maria Muldaur
- Look Out Highway — Charlie Musselwhite
- Young Fashioned Ways — Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Bobby Rush
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Best Contemporary Blues Album
- Breakthrough — Joe Bonamassa
- Paper Doll — Samantha Fish
- A Tribute to LJK — Eric Gales
- Preacher Kids — Robert Randolph
- Family — Southern Avenue
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Best Folk Album
- What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow — Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson
- Crown of Roses — Patty Griffin
- Wild and Clear and Blue — I'm With Her
- Foxes in the Snow — Jason Isbell
- Under the Powerlines April 24 — September 24 — Jesse Welles
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Best Regional Roots Music Album
- Live at Vaughan's — Corey Henry & The Treme Funktet
- For Fat Man — Preservation Brass & Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- Church of New Orleans — Kyle Roussel
- Second Line Sunday — Trombone Shorty and New Breed Brass Band
- A Tribute to the King of Zydeco — Various Artists
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Field 06: Gospel & Contemporary Christian
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Best Gospel Performance/Song
- "Do It Again" — Kirk Franklin
- "Church" — Tasha Cobbs Leonard and John Legend
- "Still (Live)" — Jonathan McReynolds & Jamal Roberts
- "Amen" — Pastor Mike Jr.
- "Come Jesus Come" — CeCe Winans featuring Shirley Caesar
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Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
- "I Know a Name" — Elevation Worship, Chris Brown, Brandon Lake
- "YOUR WAY'S BETTER" — Forrest Frank
- "Hard Fought Hallelujah" — Brandon Lake with Jelly Roll
- "Headphones" — Lecrae, Killer Mike and T.I.
- "Amazing" — Darrel Walls and PJ Morton
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Best Gospel Album
- Sunny Days — Yolanda Adams
- Tasha — Tasha Cobbs Leonard
- Live Breathe Fight — Tamela Mann
- Only On the Road (Live) — Tye Tribbett
- Heart of Mine — Darrel Walls and PJ Morton
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Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
- CHILD OF GOD II — Forrest Frank
- Coritos Vol. 1 — Israel & New Breed
- King of Hearts — Brandon Lake
- Reconstruction — Lecrae
- Let the Church Sing — Tauren Wells
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Best Roots Gospel Album
- I Will Not Be Moved (Live) — The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
- Then Came the Morning — Gaither Vocal Band
- Praise & Worship: More Than a Hollow Hallelujah — The Isaacs
- Good Answers — Karen Peck and New River
- Back to My Roots — Candi Staton
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Field 07: Latin, Global, African, Reggae & New Age, Ambient or Chant
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Best Latin Pop Album
- Cosa Nuestra — Rauw Alejandro
- BOGOTÁ DELUXE — Andrés Cepeda
- Tropicoqueta — KAROL G
- Cancionera — Natalia Lafourcade
- ¿Y ahora qué? — Alejandro Sanz
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Best Música Urbana Album
- DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS — Bad Bunny
- Mixteip — J Balvin
- FERXXO VOL X: Sagrado — Feid
- NAIKI — Nicki Nicole
- EUB DELUXE — Trueno
- SINFÓNICO (En Vivo) — Yandel
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Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
- Genes Rebeldes — Aterciopelados
- ASTROPICAL — Bomba Estéreo and Rawayana (ASTROPICAL)
- PAPOTA — CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso
- ALGORHYTHM — Los Wizzards
- Novela — Fito Paez
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Best Música Mexicana Album (including Tejano)
- MALA MÍA — Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera
- Y Lo Que Viene — Grupo Frontera
- Sin Rodeos — Paola Jara
- Palabra de To's (Seca) — Carín León
- Bobby Pulido & Friends una Tuya y una Mía : Por la Puerta Grande (En Vivo) — Bobby Pulido
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Best Tropical Latin Album
- Fotografías — Rubén Blades and Roberto Delgado & Orquesta
- Raíces — Gloria Estefan
- Clásicos 1.0 — Grupo Niche
- Bingo — Alain Pérez
- Debut y Segunda Tanda, Vol. 2 — Gilberto Santa Rosa
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Best Global Music Performance
- "EoO" — Bad Bunny
- "Cantando en el Camino" — Ciro Hurtado
- "JERUSALEMA" — Angélique Kidjo
- "Inmigrante y Que?" — Yeisy Rojas
- "Shrini's Dream (Live)" — Shakti
- "Daybreak" — Anoushka Shankar featuring Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar
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Best African Music Performance
- "Love" — Burna Boy
- "With You" — Davido featuring Omah Lay
- "Hope & Love" — Eddy Kenzo & Mehran Matin
- "Gimme Dat" — Ayra Starr featuring Wizkid
- "PUSH 2 START" — Tyla
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Best Global Music Album
- Sounds of Kumbha — Siddhant Bhatia
- No Sign of Weakness — Burna Boy
- Eclairer le monde - Light the World — Youssou N'Dour
- Mind Explosion (50th Anniversary Tour Live) — Shakti
- Chapter III: We Return to Light — Anoushka Shankar featuring Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar
- Caetano e Bethânia Ao Vivo — Caetano Veloso and Maria Bethânia
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Best Reggae Album
- Treasure Self Love — Lila Iké
- Heart & Soul — Vybz Kartel
- BLXXD & FYAH — Keznamdi
- From Within — Mortimer
- No Place Like Home — Jesse Royal
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Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album
- Kuruvinda — Kirsten Agresta-Copely
- According to the Moon — Cheryl B. Engelhardt, GEM, Dallas String Quartet
- Into the Forest — Jahnavi Harrison
- NOMADICA — Carla Patullo featuring The Scorchio Quartet & Tonality
- The Colors in My Mind — Chris Redding
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Field 08: Children's, Comedy, Audio Book Narration & Storytelling, Visual Media & Music Video/Film
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Best Children's Album
- Ageless: 100 Years Young − Joanie Leeds & Joya
- Buddy's Magic Tree House − Mega Ran
- Harmony − FYÜTCH & Aura V
- Herstory − Flor Bromley
- The Music of Tori and the Muses − Tori Amos
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Best Comedy Album
- Drop Dead Years − Bill Burr
- PostMortem − Sarah Silverman
- Single Lady − Ali Wong
- What Had Happened Was... − Jamie Foxx
- Your Friend, Nate Bargatze − Nate Bargatze
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Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording
- Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story − Kathy Garver
- Into the Uncut Grass − Trevor Noah
- Lovely One: A Memoir − Ketanji Brown Jackson
- Meditations: Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
− Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama
- You Know It's True: The Real Story of Milli Vanilli − Fab Morvan
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Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
- A Complete Unknown — Timothée Chalamet
- F1® the Album — Various Artists
- KPop Demon Hunters — Various Artists
- Sinners — Various Artists
- Wicked — Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande & Wicked Movie Cast
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Best Score Soundtrack Album for Visual Media
- How to Train Your Dragon — John Powell
- Severance: Season 2 — Theodore Shapiro
- Sinners — Ludwig Göransson
- Wicked — John Powell & Stephen Schwartz
- The Wild Robot — Kris Bowers
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Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Secrets of the Spires — Pinar Toprak
- Helldivers 2 — Wilbert Roget II
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — Gordy Haab
- Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate's Fortune — Cody Matthew Johnson & Wilbert Roget II
- Sword of the Sea — Austin Wintory
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Best Song Written for Visual Media
- "As Alive as You Need Me to Be" (from Tron: Ares) — Nine Inch Nails
- "Golden" (from KPop Demon Hunters) — HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna & REI AMI
- "I Lied to You" (from Sinners) — Miles Caton
- "Never Too Late" (from Elton John: Never Too Late) — Elton John & Brandi Carlile
- "Pale, Pale Moon" (from Sinners) — Jayme Lawson
- "Sinners" (from Sinners) — Rod Wave
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Best Music Video
- "Manchild" — Sabrina Carpenter
- "So Be It" — Clipse
- "Anxiety" — Doechii
- "Love" — OK Go
- "Young Lion" — Sade
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Best Music Film
- Devo — Devo
- Live at the Royal Albert Hall — Raye
- Relentless — Diane Warren
- Music by John Williams — John Williams
- Piece by Piece — Pharrell Williams
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Field 09: Package, Notes & Historical
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Best Recording Package
- And the Adjacent Possible — OK Go
- Balloonerism — Mac Miller
- Danse Macabre: De Luxe — Duran Duran
- Loud Is As — Tsunami
- Sequoia — Various Artists
- The Spins (Picture Disc Vinyl) — Mac Miller
- Tracks II: The Lost Albums — Bruce Springsteen
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Best Album Cover
- CHROMAKOPIA — Tyler, the Creator
- The Crux — Djo
- DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS — Bad Bunny
- Glory — Perfume Genius
- moisturizer — Wet Leg
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Best Album Notes
- Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974 — Buck Owens and His Buckaroos
- After the Last Sky — Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland
- Árabe — Amanda Ekery
- The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 — Sly & the Family Stone
- A Ghost is Born (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) — Wilco
- Miles 55: The Prestige Recordings — Miles Davis
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Best Historical Album
- Joni Mitchell Archives − Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) — Joni Mitchell
- The Making of Five Leaves Left — Nick Drake
- Roots Rocking Zimbabwe: The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980 (Analog Africa No. 41) — Various Artists
- Super Disco Pirata: De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965-1980 (Analog Africa No. 39) — Various Artists
- You Can't Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos — Doc Pomus
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Field 10: Production, Engineering, Composition & Arrangement
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Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
- All Things Light — Cam
- Arcadia — Alison Krauss & Union Station
- For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) — Japanese Breakfast
- That Wasn't a Dream — Pino Palladino & Blake Mills
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Best Engineered Album, Classical
- Cerrone: Don't Look Down — Sandbox Percussion
- Eastman: Symphony No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 — Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra
- Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk District — Andris Nelsons, Kristine Opolais, Günther Groissböck, Peter Hoare, Brenden Gunnell & Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Standard Stoppages — Third Coast Percussion
- Yule — Trio Mediæval
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Producer of the Year, Classical
- Blanton Alspaugh
- All Is Miracle — The Choral Music Of Kyle Pederson (Timothy J. Campbell & Transept) (A)
- Heggie: Intelligence (Kwame Ryan, Janai Brugger, Jamie Barton, J'Nai Bridges & Houston Grand Opera) (A)
- Marsalis: Blues Symphony (Jader Bignamini & Detroit Symphony Orchestra) (A)
- Massenet: Werther (Robert Spano, Matthew Polenzani, Isabel Leonard & Houston Grand Opera) (A)
- The Mirage Calls (Charles Bruffy & Kansas City Chorale) (A)
- Sheehan: Ukrainian War Requiem (Michael Zaugg, Axios, Men's Ensemble & Pro Coro Canada) (A)
- Sun, Moon, Stars, Rain (Christopher Gabbitas & Phoenix Chorale) (A)
- Sergei Kvitko
- Biedenbender: Enigma; River Of Time (Kevin L. Sedatole & Michigan State University Wind Symphony) (A)
- Chiaroscuro (Vedrana Subotic) (A)
- Dancing In A Still Life (Tasha Warren) (A)
- Excursions (Vuorovesi Trio) (A)
- Four Hands. Two Hearts. One Hope. Ukrainian And American Music For Piano Duo (Mykhailo Diordiiev & Anastasiia Larchikova) (A)
- Here And Now — Trumpet Music By Virginia Composers (Jason Crafton, Richard Masters, Annie Stevens & Paul Langosch) (A)
- Lansky: Touch And Go (Gwendolyn Dease) (A)
- Orbiting Garden (William Hobbs) (A)
- Would That Loving Were Enough (Haven Trio) (A)
- Morten Lindberg
- Fred Over Jorden (Peace To The World) (Elisabeth Holte, Kjetil Bjerkestrand & Uranienborg Vokalensemble) (A)
- Stjernebru (Anne Karin Sundal-Ask & Det Norske Jentekor) (A)
- Yule (Trio Mediæval) (A)
- Dmitriy Lipay
- Heggie: Before It All Goes Dark (Joseph Mechavich, Megan Marino, Ryan McKinny & Music Of Remembrance Ensemble) (A)
- Odyssey (Jorge Glem, Gustavo Dudamel & Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Of Venezuela) (A)
- Ortiz: Yanga (Gustavo Dudamel, Alisa Weilerstein & Los Angeles Philharmonic) (A)
- Elaine Martone
- Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra) (A)
- Chopin & Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas (Brian Thornton & Spencer Myer) (A)
- Dear Mrs. Kennedy (Ryan Townsend Strand) (A)
- Eastman: Symphony No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra) (A)
- LeFrak: Romántico (Sharon Isbin, Lopez-Yañez & Orchestra Of St. Luke's) (A)
- Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 & Symphony No. 29 (Garrick Ohlsson, Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestrea) (A)
- The Poet & The Prodigy (Debra Nagy & Mark Edwards) (A)
- Shapes In Collective Space (Tallā Rouge) (A)
- Songs Of Orpheus (Kelley O'Connor) (A)
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Best Immersive Audio Album
- All American F—ckboy — Duckwrth
- Immersed — Justin Gray
- An Immersive Tribute To Astor Piazzolla (Live) — Various Artists
- Tearjerkers — Tearjerkers
- Yule — Trio Mediæval
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Best Instrumental Composition
- "First Snow" — Nordkraft Big Band, Remy Le Boeuf & Danielle Wertz
- "Live Life This Day: Movement I" — Miho Hazama, Danish Radio Big Band & Danish National Symphony Orchestra
- "Lord, That's a Long Way" — Sierra Hull
- "Opening" — Zain Effendi
- "Train to Emerald City" — John Powell & Stephen Schwartz
- "Why You Here / Before the Sun Went Down" — Ludwig Göransson featuring Miles Caton
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Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
- "Be Okay" — Cynthia Erivo
- "A Child Is Born" — Nordkraft Big Band & Remy Le Boeuf
- "Fight On" — The Westerlies
- "Super Mario Praise Break" — The 8-Bit Big Band
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Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals
- "Big Fish" — Nate Smith Featuring säje
- "How Did She Look?" — Seth MacFarlane
- "Keep an Eye on Summer" — Jacob Collier
- "Something In The Water (Acoustic-Ish)" — Lawrence
- "What a Wonderful World" — Cody Fry
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Field 11: Classical
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Best Orchestral Performance
- Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Ballade Op. 4, Suites From '24 Negro Melodies — Michael Repper; National Philharmonic Orchestra
- Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie — Andris Nelsons; Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Ravel: Boléro, M. 81 — Gustavo Dudamel; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
- Still & Bonds — Yannick Nézet-Séguin; The Philadelphia Orchestra
- Stravinsky: Symphony In Three Movements — Esa-Pekka Salonen; San Francisco Symphony
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Best Opera Recording
- Heggie: Intelligence — Jamie Barton; Houston Grand Opera; Gene Scheer
- Huang Ruo: An American Soldier — Carolyn Kuan; American Composers Orchestra; David Henry Hwang
- Kouyoumdjian: Adoration — Alan Pierson; Silvana Quartet; The Choir Of Trinity Wall Street
- O'Halloran: Trade & Mary Motorhead — Elaine Kelly; Irish National Opera Orchestra; Mark O’Halloran
- Tesori: Grounded — Yannick Nézet-Séguin; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus; George Brant
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Best Choral Performance
- Advena - Liturgies For A Broken World — Craig Hella Johnson; Simon Barrad, Emily Yocum Black & Michael Hawes; Conspirare
- Childs: In The Arms Of The Beloved — Grant Gershon; Billy Childs, Dan Chmielinski, Christian Euman, Larry Koonse, Lyris Quartet, Anne Akiko Meyers, Carol Robbins & Luciana Souza; Los Angeles Master Chorale
- Lang: Poor Hymnal — Donald Nally; Steven Bradshaw, Michael Hawes, Lauren Kelly, Rebecca Siler & Elisa Sutherland; The Crossing
- Ortiz: Yanga — Gustavo Dudamel; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Master Chorale
- Requiem Of Light — Steven Fox; Brian Giebler & Sangeeta Kaur; The Clarion Choir
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Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
- Dennehy: Land Of Winter — Alan Pierson & Alarm Will Sound
- La Mer - French Piano Trios — Neave Trio
- Lullabies For The Brokenhearted — Lili Haydn & Paul Cantelon
- Slavic Sessions — Mak Grygic and Mateusz Kowalski
- Standard Stoppages — Third Coast Percussion
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Best Classical Instrumental Solo
- Coleridge-Taylor: 3 Selections From '24 Negro Melodies' — Curtis Stewart; National Philharmonic
- Hope Orchestrated — Mary Dawood Catlin; Venezuela Strings Recording Ensemble
- Inheritances — Adam Tendler
- Price: Piano Concerto In One Movement In D Minor — Han Chen; Malmö Opera Orchestra
- Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos — Yo-Yo Ma; Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works — Yuja Wang; Boston Symphony Orchestra
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Best Classical Vocal Solo
- Alike - My Mother's Dream — Allison Charney; Benjamin Loeb; National Symphonia Orchestra
- Black Pierrot — Sidney Outlaw; Warren Jones
- In This Short Life — Devony Smith; Danny Zelibor; Michael Nicolas
- Kurtág: Kafka Fragments — Susan Narucki; Curtis Macomber
- Schubert Beatles — Theo Hoffman; Steven Blier
- Telemann: Ino - Opera Arias For Soprano — Amanda Forsythe; Robert Mealy, Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs; Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
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Best Classical Compendium
- Cerrone: Don't Look Down — Sandbox Percussion
- The Dunbar/Moore Sessions, Vol. II — Will Liverman
- Ortiz: Yanga — Gustavo Dudamel
- Seven Seasons — Janai Brugger, Isolde Fair, MB Gordy & Starr Parodi; Nicholas Dodd
- Tombeaux — Christina Sandsengen
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Best Contemporary Classical Composition
- Cerrone: Don't Look Down — Christopher Cerrone; Conor Hanick & Sandbox Percussion
- Dennehy: Land Of Winter — Donnacha Dennehy; Alan Pierson & Alarm Will Sound
- León: Raíces — Origins — Tania León; Edward Gardner & London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Okpebholo: Songs In Flight — Shawn E. Okpebholo; Will Liverman, Paul Sánchez & Various Artists
- Ortiz: Dzonot — Gabriela Ortiz; Alisa Weilerstein, Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic
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Best of luck to all the nominees!