By: Sadie Christine
It’s award season, and as music lovers, the Grammys are a big deal. This year features five major country categories: Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Duo/Group Performance, Best Country Song, Best Traditional Country Album, and Best Contemporary Country Album.
2025 was such an exciting year for country music, with so many amazing projects getting their flowers and well-deserved recognition. We can’t wait to see who takes home the win.
Here is a complete list of all the nominees for the 68th Annual GRAMMY Awards, airing Sunday, February 1, 2026, on CBS, as well as our Wildhearted take!
Best Country Solo Performance
- Somewhere Over Laredo – Lainey Wilson
- I Never Lie – Zach Top
- Bad As I Used to Be – Chris Stapleton
- Good News – Shaboozey
- Nose on the Grindstone – Tyler Childers
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
- Honky Tonk Hall of Fame – George Strait & Chris Stapleton
- Amen – Shaboozey & Jelly Roll
- Love Me Like You Used to Do – Margo Price & Tyler Childers
- Trailblazer – Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert & Lainey Wilson
- A Song to Sing – Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton
Best Country Song
- A Song to Sing
(Jenee Fleenor, Jesse Frasure, Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton, songwriters — Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton) - Somewhere Over Laredo
(Andy Albert, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson & Lainey Wilson, songwriters — Lainey Wilson) - I Never Lie
(Carson Chamberlain, Tim Nichols & Zach Top, songwriters — Zach Top) - Good News
(Sean Cook, Collins Obinna Chibueze, Michael Ross Pollack, Sam Elliot Roman, Nevin Sastry & Jacob Torrey, songwriters — Shaboozey) - Bitin’ List
(Tyler Childers, songwriter — Tyler Childers)
Best Traditional Country Album
- Ain’t In It for My Health – Zach Top
- Hard Headed Woman – Margo Price
- Oh What a Beautiful World – Willie Nelson
- American Romance – Lukas Nelson
- Dollar a Day – Charley Crockett
Best Contemporary Country Album
- Postcards from Texas – Miranda Lambert
- Beautifully Broken – Jelly Roll
- Evangeline vs. the Machine – Eric Church
- Snipe Hunter – Tyler Childers
- Patterns – Kelsea Ballerini
So many of these artists have yet to take home a Grammy. Will this upcoming ceremony on Sunday see that change? We’re so excited to find out.
Wildhearted Take
We love all of these projects so much, but there are a few that really stand out to us and ones we’d especially love to see earn their moment.
2025 was a breakout year for Zach Top, and it was well earned. His classic country sound and delivery truly set him apart, and his three nominations are highly deserved.
Kelsea Ballerini has been a dominant figure in country music for more than a decade, and despite six nominations over the years, she has yet to take home a win. We would love to see Patterns earn that moment. It’s a deeply moving album filled with vulnerability and authenticity from Kelsea. Tracks like “Beg for Your Love” and “How Much Do You Love Me” showcase some of her strongest songwriting to date.
Margo Price is nominated twice this year, for her collaboration with Tyler Childers as well as her album Hard Headed Woman. Much like Zach Top, she’s bringing back an authentic country sound, think Loretta or Dolly.
Speaking of Loretta and Dolly, those two iconic women are referenced in Trailblazer by Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, and Lainey Wilson. It’s one of the most sentimental and inspiring songs to come out last year, and a track that honours and celebrates country stars of today, yesterday, and tomorrow.
GRAMMY Sunday is fast approaching, and for hardcore music fans like us, this is our Super Bowl.
Stay Wild. Stay Creating. Country.
