Major Categories
| Category | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| Album of the Year | Bad Bunny | DeBÍ Tirar Más Fotos |
| Record of the Year | Kendrick Lamar feat. SZA | “Luther” |
| Song of the Year | Billie Eilish | “Wildflower” |
| Best New Artist | Olivia Dean | — |
Bad Bunny’s DTMF became the first album to win Album of the Year in both LATIN GRAMMY and GRAMMY. It is also the first Spanish language album to win Album of the Year.
Kendrick Lamar surpassed Jay-Z to become the most Grammy-awarded rapper ever, with 27 Grammy wins to Jay-Z’s 25 — a record confirmed by milestone tracking sources.
Lamar is also only the third artist in history to win Record of the Year in back-to-back years—joining Roberta Flack, U2, and Billie Eilish—and the first ever to win Song of the Year two years in a row, following “Not Like Us” sweeping both categories at the 2025 GRAMMYs.
With “Wildflower” winning Song of the Year at the 2026 Grammys, Billie Eilish and Finneas reached three wins in the category—the highest total ever achieved. The confusion over whether this “broke” or “tied” the record comes from how Grammy history is documented.
In the early decades of the Grammys, awards were often credited to songs rather than carefully tallied per individual songwriter. Credits were recorded inconsistently, and co-writing was handled differently than it is today. Because of this, historians can say that no songwriter has ever exceeded three Song of the Year wins, but they cannot definitively name a single individual from earlier eras who can be cleanly credited with that total.
Billie Eilish and Finneas are the first songwriters whose three wins are clearly documented under modern record-keeping, which is why their achievement is described as tying the all-time record, while also standing alone in the contemporary era.
Another interesting tidbit: This is the first in seven years that Bruno Mars, nominated in 2 of the major categories, didn’t win a Grammy.
Pop
| Category | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| Best Pop Solo Performance | Lola Young | “Messy” |
| Best Pop Vocal Album | Lady Gaga | Mayhem |
| Best Dance Pop Recording | Lady Gaga | “Abracadabra” |
| Best Pop Duo/Group Performance | Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande | Defying Gravity |
Lady Gaga is the first artist ever to win every single pop category.
- Best Pop Vocal Album
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (2x)
- Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (3x)
- Best Pop Solo Performance
- Best Dance Pop Recording
- Best Pop Vocal Performance
She is also a Grammy winner across pop, dance, jazz, traditional pop, and soundtrack categories — a rare spread for a mainstream artist. Her wins include:
- Film-related music recognition
- Pop (solo and vocal albums)
- Dance / electronic recordings
- Jazz collaborations (with Tony Bennett)
- Traditional pop vocal albums
Ariana Grande joins Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and SZA as the only artists to win Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the Grammy’s multiple times.
Rap/HipHop
| Category | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| Best Rap Album | Kendrick Lamar | GNX |
Rock/Alternative
| Category | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| Best Rock Album | Turnstile | Never Enough |
| Best Metal Performance | Turnstile | “Birds” |
| Best Alternative Music Album | The Cure | Songs of a Lost World |
| Best Alternative Music Performance | The Cure | Alone |
This is the first time The Cure won a Grammy and they won two in one night.
R&B
| Category | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| Best R&B Album | Leon Thomas | Mutt |
| Best R&B Song | Kehlani | “Folded” |
Country
| Category | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| Best Contemporary Country Album | Jelly Roll | Beautifully Broken |
| Best Country Duo/Group Performance | Jelly Roll & Shaboozey | “Amen” |
Latin
| Category | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| Best Música Urbana Album | Bad Bunny | DeBÍ Tirar Más Fotos |
| Best Latin Pop Album | Natalia Lafourcade | Cancionera |
| Best Música Mexicana Album | Carín León | Palabra de To’s (Seca) |
Visual Media/OST
| Category | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| Best Song Written for Visual Media | Golden | K-Pop Demon Hunters |
| Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media | Various Artists | Sinners |
| Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Ludwig Göransson | Sinners |
The win for “Golden” from K-Pop Demon Hunters ties pop performance to narrative media, where audience discovery increasingly happens through story rather than charts alone. Soundtrack placements introduce artists to viewers who may never actively search for new music, embedding songs emotionally through character, plot, and visual memory.
With this, EJAE and Teddy Park became the first Kpop acts to win a Grammy. EJAE was a trainee at SM Entertainment before shifting to songwriting as she failed to make the cut. Teddy was a member of the Kpop group 1TYM. He is the primary songwriter and producer of Blackpink. He is the CEO and primary songwriter and producer for The Black Label.
Production/Songwriting
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Songwriter of the Year (Non-Classical) | Amy Allen |
| Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) | Cirkut |
| Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical) | That Wasn’t a Dream — Pino Palladino & Blake Mills |
