Though the 68th annual Grammy Awards ceremony is going down tonight (February 1st), the country categories were presented this afternoon. Highlighting the nominations list is Chris Stapleton, adding a twelfth Grammy award to his voluminous collection.
The rest of the categories saw relative newcomers earn their first trophies. Shaboozey and Jelly Roll picked up Best Country Solo Performance, and neo-traditional heroes Tyler Childers and Zach Top each snagged an award in Best Country Song and Best Traditional Country Album, respectively.
Notably, this year marks the first time that the Country Album of the Year award is split into two separate categories; the change arrived one year after controversy surrounded the 2025 ceremony, when Beyoncé won Best Country Album while competing against some of the genre’s most established artists.
Check out the full winners’ list below:
Country Solo Performance
- “Bad as I Used to Be (From F1 The Movie)” — Chris Stapleton
- “Nose on the Grindstone” — Tyler Childers
- “Good News” — Shaboozey
- “I Never Lie” — Zach Top
- “Somewhere Over Laredo” — Lainey Wilson
Country Duo/Group Performance
- “Amen” — Shaboozey and Jelly Roll
- “A Song to Sing” — Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton
- “Trailblazer” — Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert and Lainey Wilson
- “Love Me Like You Used to Do” — Margo Price and Tyler Childers
- “Honky Tonk Hall of Fame” — George Strait and Chris Stapleton
Country Song
- “Bitin’ List” — Tyler Childers, songwriter (Tyler Childers)
- “Good News” — Michael Ross Pollack, Sam Elliot Roman and Jacob Torrey, songwriters (Shaboozey)
- “I Never Lie” — Carson Chamberlain, Tim Nichols and Zach Top, songwriters (Zach Top)
- “Somewhere Over Laredo” — Andy Albert, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson, and Lainey Wilson, songwriters (Lainey Wilson)
- “A Song to Sing” — Jenee Fleenor, Jesse Frasure, Miranda Lambert, and Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton)
Traditional Country Album
- Ain’t in It for My Health — Zach Top
- Dollar a Day — Charley Crockett
- American Romance — Lukas Nelson
- Oh What a Beautiful World — Willie Nelson
- Hard Headed Woman — Margo Price
Contemporary Country Album
- Patterns — Kelsea Ballerini
- Snipe Hunter — Tyler Childers
- Evangeline vs. the Machine — Eric Church
- Beautifully Broken — Jelly Roll
- Postcards From Texas — Miranda Lambert
