Lola Young<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\tThe Lowdown\t<\/h2>\n
\n\tInfluencer turned chart dominator Alex Warren, whose \u00adballad \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 front-\u00adrunners. But don\u2019t discount soul belter Olivia Dean and R&B revivalist Leon Thomas. There\u2019s also Warren\u2019s fellow Hype House alum Addison Rae, who released her first full-length album that dwells in what Winter calls \u201cthe underground, cool-girl pop space.\u201d Somewhere between those acts lies the neo-girl-band Katseye and the genre-blurring indie-pop act the Mar\u00edas.<\/p>\n
\n\tBut it\u2019s the raspy-voiced Brit Lola Young who has been playing the long game. She released her first album in 2023 and leveled up with her shaggily appealing third full-length, I\u2019m Only F**king Myself<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\t\tWho Should Win\t<\/h2>\n
\n\tLola Young<\/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\tWho Will Win\t<\/h2>\n
\n\tAlex Warren<\/strong>
Alex Warren\u2019s dominance of radio and streaming, as well as his unabashed romanticism, will result in him taking home the gold. \u201cWarren is in a pantheon of male vocalists who are full of love, and yearning, and heartbreak, and pain,\u201d Winter says. \u201cAnd they don\u2019t shy away from those things. [They\u2019ve] historically been well-recognized by the Grammys.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Influencer turned chart dominator is poised to take home the gold at the Feb. 1 awards This year\u2019s Best New Artist 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 choices […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2194589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[311841,333913,386575,384851,355455,363144,362348,367642,342933,358273],"class_list":["post-2194588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-addison-rae","tag-alex-warren","tag-best-new-artist","tag-grammys-2026","tag-katseye","tag-leon-thomas","tag-lola-young","tag-olivia-dean","tag-sombr","tag-the-marias"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Who-Will-Win-Best-New-Artist.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194588","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=2194588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194590,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194588\/revisions\/2194590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2194589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}