Kendrick Lamar, Extra Nominations Making Historical past

And the Grammy milestone goes to…

Although nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards have been introduced by the Recording Academy in November, a number of artists have already gained huge forward of the award ceremony.

Take Kendrick Lamar, for instance. Along with his nomination for Album of the Yr for GNX, he’s now the primary rapper to obtain 5 nominations on this class as a lead artist. What’s extra is he’s additionally the primary solo artist ever to be nominated for this award with 5 consecutive studio albums.

Kendrick, who topped the record of nominees with 9 nods complete, additionally made Grammy historical past otherwise as for the primary time, three albums have been nominated for each Finest Rap Album and Album of the Yr. And becoming a member of GNX in that feat have been Clipse, Pusha T & Malice‘s Let God Kind Em Out and Tyler, The Creator‘s CHROMAKOPIA.

As well as, with ROSÉ and Bruno Mars‘ nods for Document of the Yr and Track of the Yr for his or her monitor “APT.,” the Blackpink singer simply turned the primary Ok-pop artist to obtain a nomination as a principal performer for one of many prime 4 Grammy awards—which additionally contains Album of the Yr and Finest New Artist.