Hello Out readers, are you excited for the 2026 Grammys? The nominees for the 2026 Grammys were announced last week, with queer artists like Lady Gaga, Doechii, Billie Eilish, Tyler, the Creator, and Katseye all earning nominations!
Rapper Kendrick Lamar is this year's most nominated artist, with nine noms, while producers Cirkut and Jack Antonoff, as well as singer Lady Gaga, follow up with seven noms each.
Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny, fresh off his Super Bowl Halftime controversy, also earned six nominations, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year. His album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS is just the second Spanish-language album to be nominated in the category. The first? Bad Bunny's 2022 album Un Verano Sin Ti.
Lady Gaga is also having a great year at the Grammys, with seven nominations total for her album Mayhem — her highest for a single album!
One of our favorite nominations comes in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category, where Wicked stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were nominated for the movie version of the classic duet "Defying Gravity."
While we love that they were nominated in the category, what we love even more is seeing their reaction to the nomination! Thankfully, Erivo and Grande were with director Jon M. Chu and their co-stars when they found out the good news! Make sure you watch their reaction here!
Keep reading to find out our Man Crush Monday!
- Mey Rude
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Man Crush Monday
How could our Man Crush Monday be anyone other than the dashing and disturbingly talented Wicked: For Good star and People's Sexiest Man Alive, Jonathan Bailey? In a new interview with Esquire, Bailey teased that his character, Fiyero, will have a story that is "quite brutal and dark" in the upcoming sequel. We can't wait!
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