We asked AI who the winners of the 2026 Grammy Awards will be: this was the response

The biggest night in music is almost here. On Sunday, February 1, the 2026 Grammy Awards will take place, with the Recording Academy honoring artists, songs, albums and more across 95 official categories, including the four general awards as well as prizes recognizing pop, dance/electronic, rock, metal, R&B, rap, jazz, instrumental, gospel and Latin music, among other genres.

For the 68th Grammy Awards, Kendrick Lamar leads the nominations with nine nods, followed by Lady Gaga, Jack Antonoff and Cirkut with seven each. Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter, Leon Thomas and mixing engineer Serban Ghenea are close behind with six nominations apiece.

In addition to being among the most nominated artists, Bad Bunny made history at the 2026 Grammys thanks to his album Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which is up for album of the year, and its lead track “DtMF,” nominated for both song and record of the year. That achievement makes him the first Spanish-speaking artist ever nominated for all three top awards in the same year.

Who will win at the Grammys, according to AI?

Here are the projected winners in the main Grammy categories, according to ChatGPT, including the four general awards: album of the year, song of the year, record of the year and best new artist.

Album of the year

• “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” – Bad Bunny
• “SWAG” – Justin Bieber
• “Man’s Best Friend” – Sabrina Carpenter
• “Let God Sort Em Out” – Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
• “MAYHEM” – Lady Gaga
• “GNX” – Kendrick Lamar – AI PREDICTED WINNER
• “MUTT” – Leon Thomas
• “CHROMAKOPIA” – Tyler, The Creator

Best New Artist

• Olivia Dean
• KATSEYE
• The Marias
• Addison Rae
• shadow
• Leon Thomas - WINNER
• Alex Warren
• Lola Young

Record of the Year

• “DtMF” – Bad Bunny
• “Manchild” – Sabrina Carpenter
• “Anxiety” – Doechii
• “WILDFLOWER” – Billie Eilish
• “Abracadabra” – Lady Gaga
• “luther” – Kendrick Lamar With SZA - WINNER
• “The Subway” – Chappell Roan
• “APT.” – ROSÉ, Bruno Mars

Song of the Year

• “Abracadabra” – Lady Gaga
• “Anxiety” – Doechii
• “APT.” – Bruno Mars and Rosé
• “DtMF” – Bad Bunny
• “Golden” – KPop Demon Hunters
• “luther” – Kendrick Lamar With SZA - WINNER
• “Manchild” – Sabrina Carpenter
• “WILDFLOWER” – Billie Eilish

Best Pop Vocal Album

• “SWAG” – Justin Bieber
• “Man’s Best Friend” – Sabrina Carpenter
• “Something Beautiful” – Miley Cyrus
• “MAYHEM” – Lady Gaga - WINNER
• “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2)” – Teddy Swims

Best Pop Solo Performance

• “Daisies” – Justin Bieber
• “Manchild” — Sabrina Carpenter - WINNER
• “Disease” — Lady Gaga
• “The Subway” — Chappell Roan
• “Messy” — Lola Young

Best Pop Performance by a Duo/Group

• “Defying Gravity” – Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande
• “Golden [From “KPop Demon Hunters”]” – HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami
• “Gabriela” – Katseye
• “APT.” – Rosé, Bruno Mars - WINNER
• “30 for 30” – SZA With Kendrick Lamar

Best Rock Album

• “Private Music” — Deftones
• “I Quit” — Haim
• “From Zero” – Linkin Park
• “Never Enough” — Turnstile - WINNER
• “Idols” — Yungblud

Best Rock Song

• “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, songwriters (Nine Inch Nails)
• “Caramel” – Vessel1 and Vessel2, composers (Sleep Token)
• “Glum” – Daniel James and Hayley Williams, composers (Hayley Williams)
• “Never Enough” – Daniel Fang, Franz Lyons, Pat McCrory, Meg Mills and Brendan Yates, songwriters (Turnstile) - WINNER
• “Zombie” – Dominic Harrison and Matt Schwartz, composers (Yungblud)

Best alternative music album

• Sable, Fable – Bon Iver
• Songs of a Lost World – The Cure
• Don’t Tap the Glass – Tyler, the Creator - WINNER
• Moisturizer – Wet Leg
• Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party – Hayley Williams

Best Rap Album

• “Let God Sort Em Out” – Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
• “Glorious” – GloRilla
• “God Does Like Ugly” – JID
• “GNX” – Kendrick Lamar - WINNER
• “Chromakopia” – Tyler, the Creator

Best rap song

• “Anxiety” — Jaylah Hickmon, songwriter (Doechii)
• “The Birds Don’t Sing” — Gene Elliott Thornton Jr., Terrence Thornton, Pharrell - WINNER
• Williams and Stevie Wonder, composers (Clipse, Pusha T and Malice with John Legend and Voices of Fire)
• “Sticky” — Aaron Bolton, Dudley Alexander Duverne, Gloria Woods, Dwayne Carter, Jr., Janae Wherry, Tyler Okonma and Rex Zamor, songwriters (Tyler, the Creator with GloRilla, Sexyy Red and Lil Wayne)
• “TGIF” — Lucas Alegria, Dillon Brophy, Yakki Davis, Gloria Woods, Jess Jackson, Ronnie Jackson, Mario Mims and Jorge M. Taveras, composers (GloRilla)
• “TV Off” — Jack Antonoff, Larry Jayy, Kendrick Lamar, Dijon McFarlane, Sean Momberger, Mark Anthony Spears and Kamasi Washington, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar with Lefty Gunplay)

Best dance/electronic album

• Eusexua — FKA Twigs
• Ten Days — Fred Again.. - WINNER
• Fancy That — PinkPantheress
• Inhale / Exhale — Rüfüs Du Sol
• F*** U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! <3 — Skrillex

Best R&B song

• “Folded” — Darius Dixson, Andre Harris, Kehlani Parrish, Donovan Knight, Don Mills, Khris Riddick-Tynes and Dawit Kamal Wilson, songwriters (Kehlani)
• “Heart of a Woman” — David Bishop and Summer Walker, songwriters (Summer Walker)
• “It Depends” — Nico Baran, Chris Brown, Ant Clemons, Ephrem Lopez Jr., Ryan Press, Bryson Tiller, Elliott Trent and Dewain Whitmore Jr., songwriters (Chris Brown with Bryson Tiller)
• “Overqualified” — James John Abrahart Jr. and Durand Bernarr, songwriters (Durand Bernarr)
• “Yes It Is” — Jariuce Banks, Lazaro Andres Camejo, Mike Hector, Peter Lee Johnson, Rodney Jones Jr., Ali Prawl and Leon Thomas, composers (Leon Thomas) - WINNER

Best R&B Album

• Beloved — Giveon
• Why Not More? — Coco Jones
• The Crown — Ledisi
• Escape Room — Teyana Taylor
• Mur — Leon Thomas - WINNER

Best country song

• “Bitin’ List” — Tyler Childers, songwriter (Tyler Childers)
• “Good News” — Michael Ross Pollack, Sam Elliot Roman and Jacob Torrey, songwriters (Shaboozey)
• “I Never Lie” — Carson Chamberlain, Tim Nichols and Zach Top, songwriters (Zach Top)
• “Somewhere Over Laredo” — Andy Albert, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson and Lainey Wilson, songwriters (Lainey Wilson)
• “A Song to Sing” — Jenee Fleenor, Jesse Frasure, Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton) - WINNER

Best traditional country album

• Dollar a Day — Charley Crockett
• American Romance — Lukas Nelson
• Oh What a Beautiful World — Willie Nelson - WINNER
• Hard Headed Woman — Margo Price
• Ain’t in It for My Health — Zach Top

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 - WINNER

Best Latin Pop Album

• Our Thing – Rauw Alejandro
• Bogotá (Deluxe) – Andrés Cepeda
• Tropicoqueta – Karol G - WINNER
• Songbook – Natalia Lafourcade
• What now? – Alejandro Sanz

Best urban music album

• I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN MORE PHOTOS — Bad Bunny - WINNER
• Mixteip — J Balvin
• FERXXO VOL X: Sacred — Feid
• NAIKI — Nicki Nicole
• EUB DELUXE — Thunder
• SYMPHONIC (Live) — Yandel

Best Original Score for Visual Media (includes film and television)

• How to Train Your Dragon – John Powell, composer
• Severance: Season 2 – Theodore Shapiro, composer
• Sinners – Ludwig Göransson, composer - WINNER
• Wicked – John Powell & Stephen Schwartz, composers
• The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers, composer

Best song written for visual mediocrities

• “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” – “Tron: Ares”
• “Golden” – “KPop Demon Hunters”
• “I Lied to You” – “Sinners” – WINNER
• “Never Too Late” - “Elton John: Never Too Late”
• “Pale, Pale Moon” – “Sinners”
• “Sinners” - “Sinners”

Best Music Video

• “Young Lion” — Sade
• “Manchild” — Sabrina Carpenter - WINNER
• “So Be It” — Clipse
• “Anxiety” — Doechii
• “Love” — OK Go

How to watch the 2026 Grammy Awards?

The ceremony will take place on February 1, 2026, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The show will air live on CBS and stream live and on demand on Paramount+. As in previous years, most awards will be presented during a pre-telecast ceremony, typically available on the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel and official website.

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