The Recording Academy will unveil nominations for the 69th Grammy Awards on Monday morning, kicking off three months of campaigning ahead of a February ceremony that will mark the first time Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" is eligible for the top prizes.
The nominations will be announced beginning at 7:45 a.m. ET from a presentation in New York's Times Square, with the full list posted to the Recording Academy's site at 9 a.m. ET. Coverage of the announcement lists presenters including Olivia Dean, Kehlani, Pharrell Williams, Alan Menken, Amy Allen, Carly Pearce and David Guetta, with the broadcast also carried live on "Good Morning America."
Swift's album, released in October, arrived too late to qualify for this year's ceremony, which is part of why her absence from the 2026 nominee pool drew attention; it now falls squarely within the eligibility window that closed for Monday's announcement. Industry anticipation around her potential nomination count has become one of the most closely watched storylines heading into the reveal, alongside this year's crop of new categories.
Reporting on the new category slate indicates the Recording Academy is adding several fields to the ballot this cycle, with best traditional pop vocal performance and best R&B collaboration or duo/group performance among the additions cited across outlets, though accounts differ on the exact final count and some categories' precise titles.
Swift has won album of the year four times, more than any other artist, and a nomination for "The Life of a Showgirl" would place her in contention for a fifth as soon as this cycle. The album's commercial run made it one of the year's dominant pop releases, and its exclusion from this year's ceremony left one of the clearest open questions ahead of Monday's reveal: how strongly voters will respond to it against a crowded field of 2026 releases from hip-hop, country and Latin music also expected to compete for the top categories.
Final-round voting will run from December 10 through January 7, determining winners from the nominee pool announced Monday. The 69th Grammy Awards ceremony itself is scheduled for February 7 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, giving nominees roughly twelve weeks between Monday's announcement and the show to campaign for Recording Academy voters. The nominations are being unveiled as a standalone morning broadcast rather than a scripted primetime special, a format the Academy has used in recent years to generate a second wave of attention separate from the ceremony itself.