How to watch the 2026 Grammy nominations, announced by Chappell Roan, Doechii and more

If you’re already counting down to February’s Grammy Awards, here’s thing to clasp you implicit — the nominations announcement is conscionable astir the corner.

This Friday, the Recording Academy, joined by a fistful of acquainted faces (and voices), volition denote the nominees for music’s biggest nighttime successful a livestream.

Here’s everything you request to cognize astir the announcement.

How tin I watch?

Friday’s livestream kicks disconnected astatine 8 a.m. PT connected the Grammys website and connected the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel. For those who similar an other dose of drama, support successful caput that screencasting is ever an option.

According to the Grammys website, nonstop timing is taxable to change, but you tin expect the livestream to tally for astir 30 minutes.

Who is presenting?

As usual, presenters volition see past Grammy winners and nominees, peculiar guests and Recording Academy Chief Executive Harvey Mason Jr. Several presenters, including 2025 Grammy recipients Chappell Roan, Doechii and Sabrina Carpenter, volition apt beryllium vying for apical spots this awards cycle.

Here are the remainder of the presenters:

Angélique Kidjo
Brandi Carlile
CeCe Winans
David Foster
Chelsey Green
Gayle King
Jon Batiste
Karol G
Little Big Town
Lizzo
Masaki Koike
Mumford & Sons
Nicole Scherzinger
Sam Smith

What awards are being announced?

The Recording Academy volition beryllium revealing the nominees successful each 95 Grammy categories, including 2 caller ones announced successful June, for medium screen and accepted state album.

The second summation has proved controversial, with immoderate criticizing the alteration arsenic an effort to barroom artists of colour from designation — the determination came months aft Beyoncé collected the grant for champion state medium with “Cowboy Carter” — and others arguing that it’s a long-overdue accommodation that makes mode for much unorthodox state artists.

At the clip of the June announcement, Mason Jr. called this year’s class additions “much-needed updates that guarantee those who are making important contributions to the philharmonic process are decently recognized and person the accidental to beryllium celebrated connected Music’s Biggest Night.”

When are the Grammys?

The 68th Annual Grammy Awards volition instrumentality spot Feb. 1 astatine L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena. The ceremonial volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected CBS and disposable to watercourse unrecorded and connected request connected Paramount+.

What’s antithetic this year?

Absent medium submissions from awards-season mainstays similar Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Billie Eilish, this year’s contention is poised to beryllium 1 of the slightest predictable and astir breathtaking successful a agelong time.

Also contributing to a consciousness of novelty are caller channels done which underrated artists are expanding their chances astatine recognition.

This twelvemonth is the archetypal that members of Grammy U, a Recording Academy programme for aspiring euphony professionals betwixt 18 and 29, were invited to taxable their picks for Grammy consideration. With younger ears to the ground, emerging artists are better-positioned than ever to emergence successful the ranks.

Plus, the Recording Academy voting assemblage is undergoing a shake-up arsenic caller members, including invitees from the Latin Recording Academy, are inducted.

“The summation of galore Latin Recording Academy voting members underscores that euphony has nary borders and that our ngo to service euphony people, careless of wherever they are from, is stronger than ever,” Harvey Jr. said successful a quality release. “I can’t hold for our members’ passionateness and hard enactment to radiance done successful this year’s nominations.”