Grammys 2026 live chat: Ready for music's biggest night with Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and more

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With the 2026 Grammys officially upon us, work astir each of the night’s champion and worst moments beneath successful our Grammys unrecorded chat betwixt popular euphony professional Mikael Wood and unit writer August Brown.

4:45 p.m. Let maine archer you, I earned similar 10 years of cool-uncle-August credibility with my friend’s five-year-old aft I sent implicit a video clip of the Huntr/x singers performing astatine the UMG gala yesterday. I’m keeping an oculus retired connected a macro level to spot if Kendrick Lamar oregon Bad Bunny - 2 of the astir politically and creatively salient artists moving contiguous for a assortment of reasons - are capable to yet instrumentality location the capstone medium prize erstwhile each person been deservedly circling it for immoderate time. Artists and voters consciousness immoderate urgency to marque this a connection award. But for Record and Song, don’t number retired Grammy bestie Bruno Mars and Blackpink’s Rosé sneaking successful for immoderate hardware either. — A.B.

4:45 p.m. August, my friend, we’re going up, up, up — it’s our infinitesimal (which is to accidental different accidental to liveblog different Grammys ceremony). So gladsome to beryllium with you contiguous arsenic the enactment unfolds astatine Crypto.com Arena. Will “Golden” go the archetypal K-pop tune to triumph opus of the year? Will Lady Gaga yet triumph a apical Grammy with “Abracadabra” oregon “Mayhem”? Will Bad Bunny instrumentality it each en way to adjacent weekend’s Super Bowl halftime performance? These are conscionable a fewer of the evening’s galore burning questions. —M.W.