‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ ‘Wicked,’ ‘A Complete Unknown’ & More Top 2026 Grammys Contenders for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

KPop Demon Hunters, which has topped the Billboard 200 for 2 nonconsecutive weeks, and Wicked, which debuted and peaked astatine No. 2 connected that illustration past December, are among the 48 soundtracks vying for Grammy nominations for champion compilation soundtrack for ocular media. Wicked received 10 Oscar nominations earlier this year, including nods for some of its main stars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

Soundtracks from 2 different films that were large players astatine the Oscars connected March 2 are besides vying for Grammy nominations: the philharmonic Emilia Pérez, which led each films this twelvemonth with 13 Oscar nods, and the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, which received 8 nods, including 1 for its prima Timothée Chalamet.

In some of these cases, the stars of the soundtracks – Clément Ducol and Camille for Emilia Pérez and Chalamet for A Complete Unknown – are identified by sanction connected the introduction database from which Grammy voters volition marque their selections successful first-round voting. (In astir cases, specified arsenic with KPop Demon Hunters and Wicked, the database simply says Various Artists.)

All 4 of these soundtracks look apt to person Grammy nominations. If KPop Demon Hunters wins, it volition beryllium the 4th soundtrack from an animated movie to instrumentality the grant (which dates to the 2000 Grammy ceremony), pursuing Tarzan, Frozen and Encanto. If Wicked wins, it would beryllium the 2nd soundtrack to a movie that was adapted from a Broadway philharmonic to assertion the prize, pursuing Chicago.

Soundtracks vying for the 5th spot connected the last ballot see some albums that are credited to circumstantial artists and those that amusement Various Artists.

Artist-identifying possibilities see Piece by Piece (credited to 13-time Grammy victor Pharrell Williams); Better Man (credited to Robbie Williams and Adam Tucker); Godfather of Harlem: Season 4 (credited to Godfather of Harlem and Swizz Beatz); Spellbound (credited to 11-time Grammy victor Alan Menken and Cast); and Maria (credited to Maria Callas, though since the legendary opera prima died successful 1977, she isn’t eligible to triumph a Grammy).

Other possibilities, credited conscionable to Various Artists, see soundtracks from manager Ryan Coogler’s <...