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\n\tLeading up to\u00a0the Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, <\/em>Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories<\/a>. For each, we\u2019re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\tThis year\u2019s Best New Artist<\/a> field is a head-scratcher because it\u2019s just so wide open. \u201cA lot has been going on in specific genre spaces,\u201d says Cecilia Winter, Editorial Lead for Global Hits at Spotify, \u201cbut the obvious [nominee] choices that we had this time last year are not as present \u2014 with the possible exception of an Alex Warren or a Sombr, who have had hockey-stick growth in the past year and who are also relatively new artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\tBest New Artist \u2014 Our Predictions\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tLola Young\u00a0
Role Model
Sombr
Alex Warren
Yungblud
Megan Moroney
Olivia Dean
The Mar\u00edas<\/p>\n

\n\t\tWho Will Win?\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tAlex Warren<\/em><\/strong>
Warren\u2019s dominance of radio and streaming, as well as his unabashed romanticism, will likely result in him taking home the golden gramophone in February. \u201c\u2019Ordinary\u2019 is such a huge love song,\u201d says Winter. \u201cWarren is in a pantheon of male vocalists who are full of love, and yearning, and heartbreak, and pain\u2014and they don\u2019t shy away from those things. [They\u2019ve] historically been well-recognized by the Grammys.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\tWho Should Win?\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tLola Young<\/em><\/strong>
Young had a fantastic year, following up the success of \u201cMessy\u201d with preview cuts from I\u2019m Only F**ing Myself<\/em> that showed how she wasn\u2019t going to let that song\u2019s popularity force her to sound a certain way \u2014 and how she was going to remain fiercely true to herself in her lyric-writing, too. \u201cShe has built this really sticky audience because of these super raw, vulnerable, relatable lyrics,\u201d says Winter. \u201cAnd she has this really compelling voice and sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\tForecasting the Field\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tInfluencer-turned-chart-dominator Warren, whose ballad \u201cOrdinary\u201d had a lock on the Hot 100\u2019s top spot this summer, and Sombr, the flame-keeper of downtown New York cool, are two nomination locks. But, Winter notes, \u201cthere aren\u2019t a lot of no-brainer nominees\u201d in terms of acts that are both brand-new and hugely popular.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are, however, artists who have been knocking around for a while who fit the Best New Artist criterion of having breakthroughs during the nomination year. Raspy-voiced Brit Lola Young released her first album in 2023, but her downcast 2024 cut \u201cMessy\u201d was one of the year\u2019s biggest viral sensations; her shaggily appealing third full-length I\u2019m Only F**king Myself <\/em>came out on Sept. 19, just after the 2026 Grammys\u2019 eligibility period ended. Witty Nashville upstart Megan Moroney and neo-neo-soul belter Olivia Dean also released their first albums in 2023 but had large leaps into the public consciousness during the September-to-August nomination period.<\/p>\n

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\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n

\n\tBritish yelper Yungblud released his debut in 2018 and has been cultivating a fervent fanbase for his ambitious, acidic music in the years since, but his co-sign from Ozzy Osbourne before the metal titan\u2019s death<\/a> this summer and his ambitious album Idols<\/em> raised his profile in the wider rock world. The social-media sensation Role Model and the genre-blurring indie-pop act the Mar\u00edas also released their first music in the \u201810s, but they found game-changing streaming success with the loose-limbed country-pop cut \u201cSally, When the Wine Runs Out\u201d<\/a> and the chill-sounding, anxiety-riddled \u201cNo One Noticed,\u201d respectively.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tEchoing Winter\u2019s comment on this year\u2019s Best New Artist field being unpredictable, the list of artists who have an outside shot at making the category\u2019s Elite Eight is full of new and new-to-mass-audience acts. KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>\u2019 heroines Huntr\/X laid down a rallying cry, \u201cGolden,\u201d that was strong enough as a pure pop song to transcend its soundtrack status and land in the Hot 100\u2019s top spot. Warren\u2019s fellow Hype House alum Addison Rae released her first full-length \u2014 although in contrast to him, her record dwells in what Winter calls \u201cthe underground, cool-girl pop space.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSomewhere between those two acts lies the neo-girlband Katseye, who had streaming success with the sinewy \u201cGabriela\u201d and the surrealistic \u201cGnarly.\u201d Leon Thomas began his singing career as a 10-year-old on Broadway, but his second album Mutt<\/em> and its soulful lead single of the same name have marked him as an R&B star. BigXthaPlug self-released his first mixtape in 2020 but with the collab-heavy I Hope You\u2019re Happy<\/em> he brought his Southern charm to the modern country world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

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Leading up to\u00a0the Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories. For each, we\u2019re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night.\u00a0 This year\u2019s Best New Artist field is a head-scratcher because it\u2019s just so wide open. \u201cA lot has been going on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2073791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[386575,384851],"class_list":["post-2073790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-best-new-artist","tag-grammys-2026"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Grammys-2026-Predictions-Best-New-Artist-Nominees.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073792,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073790\/revisions\/2073792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}