The Grammys are introducing some adjustments to its classes, together with new guidelines for Greatest New Artist and a few breakdowns of the nation style.
The Recording Academy introduced on Thursday (June 12) that some guidelines for the 2026 Grammy Awards are getting tweaked, together with carving out a brand new stand-alone class for Greatest Album Cowl.
One of many largest adjustments is the creation of two separate classes for nation music: Greatest Conventional Nation Album and Greatest Modern Nation Album. Beforehand, there had solely been one Greatest Nation Album class, which was received by Beyoncé on this yr’s awards.
One other change is increasing the Greatest New Artist class to now permit acts who had been featured on earlier album of the yr nominees, so long as their contributions fall beneath 20 per cent of the album’s music.
Moreover, the Greatest Recording Package deal and the Greatest Boxed or Particular Restricted Version Package deal classes will now be mixed right into a single Greatest Recording Package deal class. This enables for the creation of the stand-alone Greatest Album Cowl class.
The Recording Academy has additionally introduced that the 68th Grammy Awards will happen on February 1, 2026.
In 2025’s version, comic Trevor Noah returned to host the occasion for the fifth consecutive yr as Beyoncé led the way in which with 11 nominations, making her essentially the most nominated artist within the awards’ historical past – she received the most important award of the evening, Album Of The Yr, for ‘Cowboy Carter’ marking her first win within the class.
Kendrick Lamar walked away as the most important winner of the evening, clinching 5 awards together with Report of The Yr and Track Of The Yr for ‘Not Like Us’. He additionally took dwelling the Grammys for Greatest Rap Efficiency and Greatest Rap Track for ‘Not Like Us’, which has additionally received Greatest Music Video.
Charli XCX received for Greatest Dance Pop Recording for ‘Von Dutch’ and Greatest Dance/Digital Album for ‘Brat’. Sabrina Carpenter has received Greatest Pop Solo Efficiency for ‘Espresso’, whereas Justice and Tame Impala took dwelling the Grammy for Greatest Dance/Digital Recording with ‘Neverender’.
