{"id":229851,"date":"2025-12-12T21:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/229851\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:26:10","slug":"who-will-win-album-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/229851\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Win Album of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThis year\u2019s Album of the Year<\/a> field isn\u2019t lacking for front-\u00adrunners: Any one of these eight LPs would be a worthy victor. But Lady Gaga<\/a>\u2019s Mayhem is poised to overshadow the rest. The ever-evolving singer, songwriter, and performer has been nominated for the top-album prize before but never took home the gold. That should change on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

\t\tThe Nominees\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBad Bunny<\/a> \u2013 Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos
Justin Bieber<\/a> \u2013 Swag
Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> \u2013 Man\u2019s Best Friend
Clipse<\/a> \u2013 Let God Sort Em Out
Lady Gaga \u2013 Mayhem
Kendrick Lamar<\/a> \u2013 GNX
Leon Thomas<\/a> \u2013 Mutt
Tyler, the Creator \u2013 Chromakopia<\/p>\n

\t\tThe Lowdown\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Lady Gaga has the mojo, Bad Bunny is one to watch as a spoiler, says John Stein, head of North America Editorial at Spotify. \u201cHe\u2019s never won outside a Latin category before, and it\u2019s overdue,\u201d Stein says. Benito\u2019s high-profile gig a week after the Grammys \u2014 headlining the Super Bowl LX halftime show \u2014 also helps his case and raises the Puerto Rican\u2019s profile among voters.<\/p>\n

\n\tTyler, the Creator\u2019s Chromakopia could also upset because of its \u201cvery strong message, and the aesthetic tied to it,\u201d according to Stein. The album reflects the best of Tyler\u2019s lush, layered production chops, as well as thematic growth. On \u201cHey Jane,\u201d he explores the permutations of having a baby, while on \u201cMother\u201d he juxtaposes his mother\u2019s lessons with the lack of insight from his father. \u201cTyler gives a dope blueprint, especially with this album, to still be yourself, but to grow the fuck up,\u201d says Genius VP of Music and Content Rob Markman.<\/p>\n

\n\tKeep an eye on Sabrina Carpenter, too. Her Man\u2019s Best Friend album showcases an artist who\u2019s unapologetically herself and provided the musical year with some of its catchiest hooks \u2014 \u201cManchild\u201d was so irresistible, in fact, that Carpenter wooed country fans with it when she performed the song at Nashville\u2019s Grand Ole Opry in October.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLeon Thomas\u2019 Mutt is also a strong contender. The New York singer, songwriter, and producer, who got his start singing on Broadway when he was just 10, is reviving R&B for a new generation, while also paying tribute to its past.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd there\u2019s Kendrick Lamar, who may prove to be the ultimate spoiler of Gaga\u2019s Mayhem. His album GNX captured the momentum of K. Dot\u2019s victory over Drake in their musical throwdown and ran with it. Break\u00adout singles like \u201cLuther\u201d sure didn\u2019t hurt, too.<\/p>\n

\n\tStein says that GNX is an album that has performed well by nearly every metric: culturally, critically, and commercially. \u201cIt feels like a good moment for Kendrick \u2014 it seems like he\u2019s a household name in a way he never was in the past,\u201d Stein says. \u201cWhich feels great for Album of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\t\tWho Should Win\t<\/p>\n

\n\tLady Gaga \u2013 Mayhem<\/strong>
Lady Gaga leans hard into her own history on Mayhem, her sixth solo studio album and a record that many consider a return to her dance-pop roots. She turns her own name into a chorus on the unbeatable \u00ad\u201cAbracadabra,\u201d gets macabre at the club in \u201cDisease,\u201d while bringing it all to vivid life with a career-defining Coachella performance in 2025 and a knockout tour to match. As Rolling Stone said in our four-star \u00adreview<\/a>: \u201cMayhem is the type of fan service that doesn\u2019t dilute the artist. Gaga feels like her most authentic self from start to finish on this album: There\u2019s no characters, concepts, or aesthetic impulses overshadowing the songs. Instead, she has made one of her most sonically challenging and uniform albums yet.\u201d \u00adFinally, it is Stefani Germanotta\u2019s time.<\/p>\n

\t\tWho Will Win\t<\/p>\n

\n\tLady Gaga \u2013 Mayhem<\/strong>
Gaga scored three consecutive Album of the Year nominations, beginning in 2010 with The Fame, followed up by The Fame Monster the next year, and Born This Way in 2012. Yet she\u2019s never won. In fact, her only album victories came in the Pop Vocal and Electronic\/Dance fields. But more than a decade later, Lady Gaga has experience, momentum, and goodwill on her side, not to mention a stunner of an LP in Mayhem that, as Rolling Stone\u2019s Brian Hiatt wrote in a December cover story<\/a>, reclaimed \u201cevery bit of her musical Gagatude, in all its multiplicities, after all of her years of shying away from it.\u201d It also helped her find herself. \u201cIt was months and months and months of rediscovering everything that I\u2019d lost,\u201d she told Rolling Stone. \u201cAnd I honestly think that\u2019s why it\u2019s called Mayhem. Because what it took to get it back was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year\u2019s Album of the Year field isn\u2019t lacking for front-\u00adrunners: Any one of these eight LPs would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[76749,17891,96786,18,117,62287,19,17,741,1448,26293,87387,337,974,16977],"class_list":{"0":"post-229851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-album-of-the-year","9":"tag-bad-bunny","10":"tag-clipse","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-grammys-2026","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-justin-bieber","17":"tag-kendrick-lamar","18":"tag-lady-gaga","19":"tag-leon-thomas","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-sabrina-carpenter","22":"tag-tyler-the-creator"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115708715882527837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}