This yr’s Grammy nominations are popping out this morning, and we now know who will compete for the yr’s greatest prize. Eight albums have been nominated within the Album Of The 12 months class, and most of them are each vital and industrial heavyweights. Simply as notably, most of them are additionally ladies.

There’s just one man nominated within the Album Of The 12 months class: Jon Batiste, who gained the award final yr and who’s now acquired his second nomination for World Music Radio. Batiste isn’t the one Grammy favourite within the class. Unsurprisingly, Taylor Swift has additionally been nominated for Midnights. Swift has already gained Album Of The 12 months 3 times, most just lately for folklore in 2021. She’s tied with Frank Sinatra, Stevie Surprise, and Paul Simon for essentially the most wins ever, and she or he was additionally nominated final yr for evermore. You’ve acquired to contemplate her the prohibitive favourite right here.

A lot of the different nominees might be thought of members of the prolonged Taylor Swift universe, although they’re all vastly completed artists in their very own proper. The largest information is that boygenius are up for the file, their first-ever full-length. (Phoebe Bridgers is a Taylor collaborator who opened a bunch of Eras Tour reveals.) Lana Del Rey, beforehand nominated for Norman Fucking Rockwell!, is in there with Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Below Ocean Blvd. (She’s one other former Taylor collaborator.) Miley Cyrus is in there with Countless Summer season Trip. (She and Taylor sang a Grammy-night duet one million years in the past.) Olivia Rodrigo, whose debut SOUR acquired a nomination, is again with GUTS. (Taylor Swift acquired songwriting credit on some SOUR songs, and there’s rumored beef between the 2 stars.)

There are additionally two R&B stars up for the award. SZA’s SOS is an absolute vital and industrial behemoth, and it will be cool to see her win it. Janelle Monaé, beforehand nominated for Soiled Pc, is up for The Age Of Pleasure, which isn’t an enormous hit however which looks as if the form of factor that Grammy voters can be into. (If Jon Batiste, SZA, and Janelle Monaé have any Taylor Swift connections, I can’t consider them off the highest of my head.) Try the entire checklist of nominees beneath.

boygenius – the file
Janelle Monáe – The Age Of Pleasure
Jon Batiste – World Music Radio
Lana Del Rey – Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Below Ocean Blvd
Miley Cyrus – Countless Summer season Trip
Olivia Rodrigo – GUTS
SZA – SOS
Taylor Swift – Midnights