After leaving as the top winner at the 2025 Grammy Awards earlier this year, Kendrick Lamar will head into the 2026 ceremony as the top nominee, picking up nine new Grammy nominations on Friday morning (Nov. 7).

Nipping at Lamar’s heels is Lady Gaga, along with producers Jack Antonoff and Cirkut, each with seven nods. Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter, Leon Thomas and mixing engineer Serban Ghenea all scored six nominations during Friday’s Recording Academy livestream.

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Lamar’s career Grammy nomination total has now reached 66, including 22 wins. He picked up five of those wins at the 2025 ceremony, including record and song of the year for his Billboard Hot 100-topping Drake diss track “Not Like Us.” This time around, Lamar has three Big

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