The GRAMMYs are coming up on Sunday, February 1st, and the Recording Academy just dropped the full list of nominees including two refreshed country categories this year.
Tyler Childers leads all country nominees this year with four total nominations: Solo Performance, Duo/Group (with Margo Price), Best Country Song, and Contemporary Country Album.
Miranda Lambert also pulls in four nominations, including Duo/Group (twice, once with Chris Stapleton and once with Reba & Lainey), Best Country Song, and Contemporary Country Album.
Lainey Wilson lands three nominations across Solo Performance, Duo/Group, and Best Country Song, continuing her streak.
Zach Top makes a huge showing with three nominations, proving his traditional-leaning sound is resonating.
Here’s who made the final cut for the Country categories:
Best Country Solo Performance
Tyler Childers — “Nose on the Grindstone”
Shaboozey — “Good News”
“Bad As I Used To Be” (from the F1 movie)
Zach Top — “I Never Lie”
Lainey Wilson — “Somewhere Over Laredo”
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton — “A Song to Sing”
Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert & Lainey Wilson — “Trailblazer”
Margo Price & Tyler Childers — “Love Me Like You Used To Do”
Shaboozey & Jelly Roll — “Amen”
George Strait & Chris Stapleton — “Honky Tonk Hall of Fame”
Best Country Song
(songwriters award)
“Bitin’ List” — Tyler Childers
“Good News” — Michael Ross Pollack, Sam Elliot Roman, Jacob Torrey (Shaboozey)
“I Never Lie” — Carson Chamberlain, Tim Nichols, Zach Top (Zach Top)
“Somewhere Over Laredo” — Andy Albert, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson, Lainey Wilson (Lainey Wilson)
“A Song to Sing” — Jenee Fleenor, Jesse Frasure, Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton (Lambert & Stapleton)
Best Traditional Country Album
Charley Crockett — Dollar A Day
Lukas Nelson — American Romance
Willie Nelson — Oh What a Beautiful World
Margo Price — Hard Headed Woman
Zach Top — Ain’t In It for My Health
Best Contemporary Country Album
Kelsea Ballerini — Pattern
Tyler Childers — Snipe Hunter
Eric Church — Evangeline vs. the Machine
Jelly Roll — Beautifully Broken
Miranda Lambert — Postcards From Texas
Catch the 2026 GRAMMY Awards live on Sunday, February 1st at 7pm CT on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. You can also check out the full list of nominees across every genre at GRAMMY.com. SPOILER: Sadly, country music earned no nominations in the four major all-genre categories. Womp Womp.
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