The artist with the most Album of the Year awards is absent from the 2026 Grammy nominations . Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl isn’t up for any awards — this year, at least. The 2026 Grammys eligibility period ran from August 31, 2024, through August 30, 2025, bumping Swift’s October 3 album into next year’s ceremony. That window is how we get 2024 releases like Leon Thomas’s Mutt competing for Album of the Year against Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend . The February 1 awards show will air nearly a year and a half after Thomas released his record in September 2024. (Fun fact: Carpenter’s Grammy-winning album, Short n’ Sweet , came out about a month before Mutt .)

Swift is on the bench with a slew of artists whose work appeared this fall. Cardi B, Rosalía, Doja C

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