index — ☑: listened | ☐: not listened | ★: personal favorite | winner

———— record of the year

• ☐ now and then — the beatles
• ☑ texas hold ‘em — beyoncé
• ☑ espresso — sabrina carpenter ★
• ☑ 360 — charli xcx
• ☑ birds of a feather — billie eilish ★
• ☐ not like us — kendrick lamar
• ☑ good luck, babe! — chappell roan ★
• ☑ fortnight — taylor swift featuring post malone

———— album of the year

• ☐ new blue sun — andré 3000
• ☑ cowboy carter — beyoncé
• ☑ short n’ sweet — sabrina carpenter ★
• ☑ brat — charli xcx
• ☐ djesse vol. 4 — jacob collier
• ☑ hit me hard and soft — billie eilish ★
• ☑ the rise and fall of a midwest princess — chappell roan
• ☑ the tortured poets department — taylor swift

———— song of the year

• ☐ a bar song (tipsy) — shaboozey
• ☑ birds of a feather — billie eilish ★
• ☑ die with a smile — lady gaga & bruno mars ★
• ☑ fortnight — taylor swift featuring post malone
• ☑ good luck, babe! — chappell roan ★
• ☐ not like us — kendrick lamar
• ☑ please please please — sabrina carpenter ★
• ☑ texas hold ‘em — beyoncé

———— best new artist

• benson boone
• sabrina carpenter ★
• doechii
• khruangbin
• raye
• chappell roan
• shaboozey
• teddy swims

———— best solo performance

• ☑ bodyguard — beyoncé
• ☑ espresso — sabrina carpenter ★
• ☑ apple — charli xcx
• ☑ birds of a feather — billie eilish
• ☑ good luck, babe! — chappell roan

———— best pop duo/group performance

• ☑ us — gracie abrams featuring taylor swift
• ☐ levii’s jeans — beyoncé featuring post malone
• ☑ guess — charli xcx & billie eilish
• ☑ the boy is mine — ariana grande, brandy & monica
• ☑ die with a smile — lady gaga & bruno mars ★

———— best pop vocal album

• ☑ short n’ sweet — sabrina carpenter ★
• ☑ hit me hard and soft — billie eilish
• ☑ eternal sunshine — ariana grande ★
• ☑ the rise and fall of a midwest princess — chappell roan
• ☑ the tortured poets department — taylor swift

———— best dance pop recording

• ☑ make you mine — madison beer
• ☑ von dutch — charli xcx
• ☑ l’amour da me vie [over now extended edition] — billie eilish
• ☑ yes, and? — ariana grande ★
• ☐ got me started — troye sivan

———— best rock album

• ☐ happiness bastards — the black crowes
• ☐ romance — fontaines d.c.
• ☐ saviors — green day
• ☐ tangk — idles
• ☐ dark matter — pearl jam
• ☐ hackney diamonds — the rolling stones
• ☐ no name — jack white

———— best alternative music album

• ☐ wild god — nick cave & the bad seeds
• ☑ charm — clairo
• ☐ the collective — kim gordon
• ☐ what now — brittany howard
• ☐ all born screaming — st. vincent

———— best r&b album

• ☐ 11:11 (deluxe) — chris brown
• ☐ vantablack — lalah hathaway
• ☐ revenge — muni long
• ☐ algorithm — lucky daye
• ☐ coming home — usher

———— best rap album

• ☐ might delete later — j. cole
• ☐ the auditorium, vol. 1 — common & pete rock
• ☐ alligator bites never heal — doechii
• ☐ the death of slim shady (coup de grâce) — eminem
• ☑ we don’t trust you — future & metro boomin

———— best country album

• ☑ cowboy carter — beyoncé
• ☐ f-1 trillion post — malone
• ☑ deeper well — kacey musgraves
• ☐ higher — chris stapleton
• ☐ whirlwind — lainey wilson

———— best latin pop album

• ☐ funk generation — anitta
• ☐ el viaje — luis fonsi
• ☐ garcía — kany garcía
• ☐ las mujeres ya no lloran — shakira
• ☑ orquídeas — kali uchis

———— best música urbana album

• ☑ nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana — bad bunny
• ☐ rayo — j balvin
• ☑ ferxxocalipsis — feid
• ☐ las letras ya no importan — residente
• ☑ att. — young miko

———— best latin rock or alternative album

• ☐ compita del destino el — david aguilar
• ☐ pa’ tu cuerpa — cimafunk
• ☐ autopoiética — mon laferte
• ☐ grasa — nathy peluso
• ☐ ¿quién trae las cornetas? — rawayana

———— best música mexicana album (including tejano)

• ☐ diamantes — chiquis
• ☐ boca chueca, vol. 1 — carín león
• ☐ éxodo — peso pluma
• ☐ de lejitos — jessi uribe

———— best compilation soundtrack for visual media

• ☐ the color purple (various artists)
• ☑ deadpool & wolverine (various artists) ★
• ☑ maestro: music by leonard bernstein london symphony orchestra, yannick nézet-séguin, bradley cooper
• ☑ saltburn (various artists)
• ☑ twisters: the album (various artists)

———— best score soundtrack for visual media

• ☐ american fiction — laura karpman, composer
• ☑ challengers — trent reznor & atticus ross, composers
• ☐ the color purple — kris bowers, composer
• ☑ dune: part two — hans zimmer, composer ★
• ☐ shōgun — nick chuba, atticus ross & leopold ross, composers