The 68th Grammy Awards took place Sunday evening (Feb. 1) at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Ahead of Music’s Biggest Night, hosted by Trevor Noah, the majority of the awards, including the entire R&B field, were presented at the Premiere Ceremony at the Peacock Theater.
The R&B field includes Best R&B Performance, Best Traditional R&B Performance, Best R&B Song, Best Progressive R&B Album and Best R&B Album.
“The Premiere Ceremony is one of the most exciting parts of Grammy weekend,” said Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy.
“Witnessing the ceremony, you see the wide range of genres and crafts that make up our music community, and all the people who push music forward. I can’t wait to see this year’s lineup of presenters and performers kick off Grammy Sunday and help celebrate as we present the first awards of the day.”
Breakout star Leon Thomas was the most nominated R&B artist at this year’s ceremony with six nods, including Album of the Year (MUTT), Best R&B Album and Best New Artist. He ended up taking home two trophies. Meanwhile, there were a couple of first-time winners in the R&B field, one of whom also won two awards.
See the list of winners at the 2026 Grammy Awards below.
Best R&B Performance
For new vocal or instrumental R&B recordings.
WINNER: Kehlani — “Folded”
Justin Bieber – “Yukon”
Chris Brown Featuring Bryson Tiller — “It Depends”
Leon Thomas — “Mutt (Live From NPR’s Tiny Desk)”
Summer Walker — “Heart Of A Woman”
Best Traditional R&B Performance
For new vocal or instrumental traditional R&B recordings.
WINNER: Leon Thomas – “Vibes Don’t Lie”
Durand Bernarr — “Here We Are”
Lalah Hathaway — “Uptown”
Ledisi — “Love You Too”
SZA — “Crybaby”
Best R&B Song
A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.
WINNER: “Folded” — Darius Dixson, Andre Harris, Donovan Knight, Don Mills, Kehlani Parrish, Khris Riddick-Tynes & Dawit Kamal Wilson, songwriters (Kehlani)
“Heart Of A Woman” — David Bishop & Summer Walker, songwriters (Summer Walker)
“It Depends” — Nico Baran, Chris Brown, Ant Clemons, Ephrem Lopez Jr., Ryan Press, Bryson Tiller, Elliott Trent & Dewain Whitmore Jr., songwriters (Chris Brown Featuring Bryson Tiller)
“Overqualified” — James John Abrahart Jr & Durand Bernarr, songwriters (Durand Bernarr)
“YES IT IS” — Jariuce Banks, Lazaro Andres Camejo, Mike Hector, Peter Lee Johnson, Rodney Jones Jr., Ali Prawl & Leon Thomas, songwriters (Leon Thomas)
Best Progressive R&B Album
For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of newly recorded progressive vocal tracks derivative of R&B.
WINNER: Durand Bernarr — BLOOM
Bilal — Adjust Brightness
Destin Conrad — Love On Digital
FLO — Access All Areas
Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon — Come As You Are
Best R&B Album
For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new R&B recordings.
WINNER: Leon Thomas — MUTT
GIVĒON — Beloved
Coco Jones — Why Not More?
Ledisi — The Crown
Teyana Taylor — Escape Room
Best Melodic Rap Performance
For a solo or collaborative performance containing both elements of R&B melodies and Rap.
WINNER: Kendrick Lamar With SZA — “luther”
Fridayy Featuring Meek Mill — “Proud Of Me”
JID Featuring Ty Dolla $ign & 6Lack — “Wholeheartedly”
Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon Featuring Rapsody — “WeMaj”
PARTYNEXTDOOR & Drake — “SOMEBODY LOVES ME”
Record Of The Year
Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s) and mastering engineer(s), if other than the artist.
WINNER: Kendrick Lamar With SZA — “luther”
Jack Antonoff, Scott Bridgeway, M-Tech, roselilah, Sounwave & Kamasi Washington, producers; Jack Antonoff, Ray Charles Brown Jr., Hector Castro, Oli Jacobs, Jack Manning, Sean Matsukawa, Dani Perez, Tony Shepperd, Laura Sisk & Johnathan Turner, engineers/mixers; Ruairi O’Flaherty, mastering engineer
Bad Bunny — “DtMF”
Scotty Dittrich, Hydra Hitz, La Paciencia, JULiA LEWiS, MAG & Tyler Spry, producers; Antonio Caraballo, Josh Gudwin, Roberto Rosado & Tyler Spry, engineers/mixers; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer
Sabrina Carpenter— “Manchild”
Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter, producers; Jack Antonoff, Bryce Bordone, Jozef Caldwell, Serban Ghenea, Sean Hutchinson, Oli Jacobs, Michael Riddleberger & Laura Sisk, engineers/mixers; Ruairi O’Flaherty, mastering engineer
Doechii — “Anxiety”
Doechii, producer; Jayda Love, engineer/mixer; Nicolas De Porcel, mastering engineer
Billie Eilish — “WILDFLOWER”
FINNEAS, producer; Jon Castelli, FINNEAS & Aron Forbes, engineers/mixers; Dale Becker, mastering engineer
Lady Gaga — “Abracadabra”
Cirkut, Lady Gaga & Andrew Watt, producers; Bryce Bordone, Serban Ghenea & Paul LaMalfa, engineers/mixers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer
Chappell Roan — “The Subway”
Daniel Nigro, producer; Chris Kasych, Mitch McCarthy & Daniel Nigro, engineers/mixers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer
ROSÉ, Bruno Mars — “APT.”
Rogét Chahayed, Cirkut, Omer Fedi & Bruno Mars, producers; Bryce Bordone, Serban Ghenea, Charles Moniz & Julian Vasquez, engineers/mixers; Chris Gehringer, mastering engineer
Best Americana Album
For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental Americana recordings.
WINNER: Jon Batiste — BIG MONEY
Larkin Poe — Bloom
Willie Nelson — Last Leaf On The Tree
Molly Tuttle — So Long Little Miss Sunshine
Jesse Welles — Middle
See the full list of winners at grammy.com.
