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Most-Nominated R&B Artist at 2026 Grammys

PowerVault Network Published: November 10, 2025 | Updated: November 12, 2025

Leon Thomas continues to cement his place as one among R&B’s brightest new stars.

The singer and musician is the most-nominated R&B artist on the 2026 Grammy Awards, incomes six nominations — primarily basically essentially the most of any R&B act this yr. He’s tied with Unhealthy Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Serban Ghenea for third-most nods entire, behind Kendrick Lamar (9) and Cirkut, Girl Gaga, and Jack Antonoff, who every have seven. It marks Thomas’ first six nominations as a soloist; he beforehand acquired Greatest R&B Tune for his contribution to SZA’s “Snooze.”

Contained in the R&B matter, Thomas leads the pack with 4 nods all by means of its 5 classes. His lauded sophomore album, MUTT, is up for Greatest R&B Album alongside Beloved by Givēon, Why Not Extra? by Coco Jones, The Crown by Ledisi and Escape Room by Teyana Taylor.

MUTT could also be contending contained in the Frequent matter for Album of the Yr, the place it’s the one precise R&B album. The stacked class furthermore consists of Unhealthy Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Justin Bieber’s SWAG, Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Greatest Buddy, Clipse’s Let God Kind Em Out, Girl Gaga’s MAYHEM, Kendrick Lamar’s GNX and Tyler, the Creator’s CHROMAKOPIA.

Additional, Thomas is contained in the working for Greatest New Artist, which “acknowledges an artist whose eligibility-year launch(s) achieved a breakthrough into the general public consciousness and notably impacted the musical panorama.” He’ll should go head-to-head with fully totally different breakout acts, together with Olivia Dean, KATSEYE, The Marias, Addison Rae, sombr, Alex Warren and Lola Youthful.

Leon Thomas. ({{Photograph}} Credit score rating score: Raymond Alva)

Circling as soon as extra to the R&B matter, “Mutt,” Thomas’ first prime 10 hit on the Billboard Scorching 100, has notched a nomination for Greatest R&B Effectivity. It’s worth noting that “Mutt (Reside From NPR’s Tiny Desk)” was submitted on condition that real monitor was launched via the eligibility interval for final yr’s ceremony. To be thought-about for a 2026 Grammy nomination, recordings needed to have been launched between Aug. 31, 2024, and Aug. 30, 2025.

Thomas’ half-dozen Grammy nominations arrive amid his Mutts Don’t Heel World Tour, which kicked off in late October. The trek spans North America, Europe, and Australia, with dates scheduled by the use of mid-April 2026.

The Reside Nation–promoted tour helps his 2024 album, which Thomas reissued in late Could as MUTT Deluxe: HEEL. The latter decisions 9 bonus tracks, collectively alongside along with his “Mutt (CB Remix)” with Chris Brown, “Fairly Be Alone” that options Halle and “Grime on My Sneakers” that options Kehlani.

Forward of his tour, Thomas dropped his PHOLKS EP, which featured the lead single “Merely How You Are.”

Try Leon Thomas’ 2026 Grammy nominations beneath.