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Here are my predictions for Album of the Year. It's actually a competitive category this year with a lot of established pop stars, fresh faces, and icons vying for a nomination.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR:

1. Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving
2. Olivia Rodrigo - You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
3. Raye - This Music May Contain Hope
4. Rosalia - Lux
5. Noah Kahan - The Great Divide
6. Phoebe Bridgers - The Lost Weekend
7. Harry Styles - Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally
8. Madonna - Confessions II

Possibilities:

• Bruno Mars - The Romantic
• Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl
• Kacey Musgraves - Middle of Nowhere
• Ella Langely - Dandelion

Should be in contention:

• Lily Allen - West End Girl
• Sienna Spiro - The Visitor
• Paul McCartney - The Boys of Dungeon Lane

There are only two days left for artists to submit their music for the 2027 Grammys. Where are the changes? lol

This could just be my fan brain, but I think that Lost Weekend has the potential for an AOTY nomination, perhaps a win. Anyone else think so? What are your thoughts about what categories it may be nominated for or win? So far, it's had universal critical acclaim and user reviews are high. It has a star-studded list of collaborators, including Jack Antonoff on the production team. Phoebe and her team are really acing the album rollout ahead of her tour which runs Sept through Dec, and it's her first album in 6 years outside of boygenius. She's released two music videos and I feel a third coming in the next several months. the record from boygenius won a few Grammys...I really do feel like Phoebe has a place in the conversation for something and I think, at the very least, it's late eligibility period release shakes some things up.

I think Grammys have been giving out AOTY based on some narratives for quite a while now such that despite of general consensus, deep down we all knew which albums were getting the AOTY in their respective years.

2024- Midnights (some people were like SOS deserves it but deep down we all knew it was going to Midnights cause of the impact this album had on the music industry and Taylor's career in general)

2025- Cowboy Carter (many people thought it should have gone to HMHAS and BRAT but again we all kinda knew it was going to Beyonce and she was overdue and the Grammys needed to beat their racism allegations)

2026- (this year was the weakest and there was not a single standout album against DTMF except Mayhem but even then we all knew that Bad Bunny was taking it as an example against the injustices of ICE)

2027, this year we really do not have any narrative to follow and no artist had a very impactful album. People are supporting their reasons, some are saying critics opinion matters more some are saying general people's opinion matter more but deep down we all know there is not a single album that stands out amongst the rest. So, that brings me to make the list of albums that definitely won't win AOTY this year and they are-

1. The Romantic by Bruno Mars: Bruno had beaten his critical reception in the past to win AOTY for his album, 24K Magic so it's not unthinkable to think he is a front runner this time too. However, I think by his own fault, he has produced two massive hits recently, Die with a smile; APT, that his recent singles don't look like hits anymore, even though they have done really well on the US Radios. This comparison won't go unnoticed and hence he will lose AOTY.

2. Girl so in love by Olivia Rodrigo: Her fans are patrolling Reddit and Twitter to heavily downvote, report and push the posts to lower reach in algorithms if the post is not in favour of her. But it is the truth that Olivia Rodrigo is a POP Star with means to reach more audience than someone like Raye, Olivia Dean etc. So, her new album not producing any hits will definitely impact the reception of her album by the voters of the Grammys.

3. The life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift: I think she could have turned around the opinions of the voters about her album by promoting it well but whether she was busy with her marriage and attending events like premiere of Toy Story 5; Songwriters Hall of Fame, that it looks like she did not care enough for this album and voters will follow the critical opinions if Taylor herself is not bothered enough to say otherwise.

Other than them, any album could win. It's just a matter of who.

Edit: LUX by Rosalia won’t win either cause that album had no impact and is only good critics score. So basically an album made for critics and not people. No replay value.

I feel like Lux Rosalia might take it, because of the production and lyrics and its very good thought it’s not for me.

Compared to the other albums, they maybe popular but they might have also have a chance

TAOL
Raye
Petal
TLOAG
GSIL

If Olivia dean wins or O Rod, won’t get mad either. All good Albums!

I know ive said that adela had lowered her chances of getting in but with the success of aint in la and the soon release of her debut album i think we're in an olivia dean last year situation.. song goes viral and then the album releases to be considered next year. If there wasnt a sienna spiro in the battle i would see adela as the winner of best new artist over slayyyter

Taylor Swift with Evermore. Billie Eilish submitted Wildflower for Pop Solo too but it went directly to SOTY/ROTY instead. There's a couple others I can think of like Jacob Collier's Vol 3 & 4 but his is a bit of a different case.

AOTY: This Music May Contain Hope.
ROTY: Where Is My Husband?
SOTY: Man I Need
New: Sienna Spiro
Pop Solo: The Fate of Ophelia (she won’t go empty handed)
Pop Album: This Music May Contain Hope.
Pop Duo: Click Clack Symphony
Dance Pop: The Dead Dance (neither will she)
Dance Song: Dracula
Dance Album: Deadbeat
Dance Remix: Dracula ft. Jennie
Music Video: Berghain
Music Film: Mayhem Requiem
Visual Media: Shape Of A Woman
Rock Album: Music, Film, Fashion
Rock Song: What’s Wrong With Me
Rock Performance: What’s Wrong With Me
Alt Song: The Cure
Alt Album: YSSFAGSIL
Urban Album: Lux
Global Music: Berghain
Album Cover: Music, Film, Fashion

The Recording Academy announced that it may revamp its brand new best asian pop performance category for Grammys 2027. Do you think they might allow songs which are in English to be nominated in this category? If so, do you think any of the songs from Blackpink's Deadline album might be nominated?

I think a lot of people like to claim that Olivia Rodrigo isn’t gonna win anything as an unpopular opinion that has become pretty popular recently.

As much as I loved RAYE and Olivia Dean’s Albums, they are going to get a split vote from jazz voters, while Rodrigo is likely to get the entirety of the pop vote, as the other huge pop album release, Taylor Swift’s The Life of A Showgirl was largely disliked by critics.

I believe that the only other contender to beat Olivia Rodrigo is Rosalía’s Lux, which is loved by critics and will get the Latin voters.

It then becomes which album can get the other genre voters, and, with the stamp of approval from Robert Smith, I think Olivia Rodrigo will get a majority of the vote.

If we combine the huge popularity Rodrigo’s album had in pop culture and the critical success it received, it is THE front runner for album of the year with barely any other competition.

Due to all the brigading that has happened on this subreddit, for the time being, I would like to consolidate all posts about BTS to this megathread. This isn't to say that BTS can never be mentioned, but posts that are specifically about BTS will be deleted and be redirected to this megathread.

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