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Kendrick Lamar leads the 2026 Grammy Award nominations, with the potential to take home nine trophies.
Three of those nine nominations are for the biggest awards of the night: record, song and album of the year. This marks the third time he's had simultaneous nominations in those big categories, and makes him and SZA the first duet partners to receive two record of the year nominations.
Lamar has 22 Grammy career wins and 66 nominations. GNX is his fifth consecutive studio album to be nominated for album of the year, making him the first solo artist in Grammy history to do so. If it wins, it will be his first win in the category. And it will be only the third rap album to win the top prize, following Lauryn Hill in 1999 for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and Outkast in 2004 for Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
Album of the year will be a first for someone
In fact, no one nominated in the album of the year category this year has ever won it before. Other nominees include Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Justin Bieber's Swag and Sabrina Carpenter's Man's Best Friend.
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