Epic Information celebrates six nominations on the 68th GRAMMY® Awards, going down in February 2026, together with albums from GIVĒON and Yolanda Adams, hits from Tyla and Zara Larsson, and particular recognition acknowledgment for Sade and Eddie Benjamin
The nominations for subsequent yr’s 68th GRAMMY® Awards have been revealed, and the Epic Information household is well-represented with six nominations and particular recognitions throughout the R&B, Afrobeats, Pop, Dance and Gospel genres. BELOVED, GIVĒON’s sophomore studio album, earns the Lengthy Seaside native his second ‘Finest R&B Album’ nomination, following the nomination for his debut EP, TAKE TIME, in 2021. The announcement comes simply sooner or later after he carried out a sold-out live performance on the world-famous Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis, the conclusion of the North American leg of his international Pricey Beloved Tour. The nomination for BELOVED makes GIVĒON an eight-time GRAMMY nominee – a formidable run for the singer, who formally debuted in 2020.
TYLA makes her return to the GRAMMY ranks with a nomination for “PUSH 2 START,” the sensational hit report discovered on the deluxe version of her historic debut album, TYLA+. The deluxe, launched in October 2024, added three new songs to TYLA’s authentic 14-song tracklist, and “PUSH 2 START” proved transcendental, incomes TYLA her second solo placement on the Billboard Scorching 100, and her second no. 1 on the Billboard Afrobeats chart. Its oft-discussed music video, which made headlines and disrupted social media with its meticulous choreography, has surpassed 120 million views as “PUSH 2 START” continues to determine itself as one in all TYLA’s signature data. TYLA’s nomination for ‘Finest African Music Efficiency’ gives the South African megastar to safe victory on this class for the second time in three years, following her win for “Water” in 2024. Concurrently, the singer is pushing yet one more one in all her breakout hits to the highest of the charts. “Chanel,” the empowerment anthem that has already racked up over 5 million YouTube views in two weeks, has landed TYLA her third no. 1 on the Billboard Afrobeats charts (her second in as a few years).
The unequivocal and dominant gospel legend Yolanda Adams places on for the style as soon as once more together with her newest nomination, for her comeback album Sunny Days. Launched in February, Sunny Days marked Ms. Adams’ first full-length album since 2011’s Turning into, and her fourteenth studio album total. Sunny Days’ nomination is the sixteenth for Ms. Adams—together with 4 victories—whose popularity because the Queen of Modern Gospel Music and the world’s preeminent feminine gospel singer is simply bolstered by yet one more banner yr. Simply final yr, the album’s lead single, “Church Doorways,” secured a GRAMMY® nomination for ‘Finest Gospel Efficiency.’
Zara Larsson, the Swedish sensation who’s dominated the previous decade with a litany of worldwide dance hits, earns her first-career nomination with Midnight Solar for ‘Finest Dance Pop Recording.’ The ten-track album, Larsson’s fifth, is her third chart-topping album on the Swedish charts—her first since 2017—and the third of her albums to chart throughout the U.S. Billboard 200.
Epic additionally makes a particular acknowledgment of off-label, GRAMMY®-recognized work by its artists. Sade’s “Younger Lion” struck an unmistakable chord with listeners when it launched final yr in help of transgender consciousness as a part of non-profit Purple Scorching’s TRAИƧA album. Now, the legendary band, whose frontwoman Sade Adu has a transgender son named Izaak, has been acknowledged for his or her visible artistry with a particular recognition ‘Finest Music Video’ nomination for his or her contributions to the TRAИƧA marketing campaign. Eddie Benjamin, identified for his work with Meghan Trainor, Shawn Mendes, and Justin Bieber, additionally earns the dignity as a part of his inclusion within the ‘Album of the Yr’ nomination for Bieber’s SWAG, the chart-topping shock album from one of many largest pop stars of the century. Benjamin contributed songwriting and manufacturing to a few songs, together with the album’s title monitor, “Swag,” in addition to “Too Lengthy” and “All I Can Take,” the latter of which peaked as a High 25 hit on the Scorching 100.
Epic’s dedication to musical brilliance and inventive excellence spans genres, generations, hemispheres and age demographics, and this yr’s crop of nominees is a shining instance. We jubilantly congratulate our artists on their profitable campaigns, and sit up for one other yr of making indelible cultural moments in 2026.
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