Bad Bunny And Rosé Are Changing How The Grammys Recognize Songwriting
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The 2026 Grammys make history as Bad Bunny, Rosé, and “Golden” help bring both Spanish and Korean lyrics into the Song of the Year category, a very rare occurrence. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 05: Bad Bunny attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue The list of potential winners from 2026 Grammy nominations is excitingly diverse when it comes to language and cultures represented in some of the most competitive spaces, and that statement is especially true when it comes to the Song of the Year category. While the Recording Academy aims to make its flagship ceremony global and encompassing of all forms of music from every part of the planet, the event heavily favors Western music trends and English-language tracks. It’s not that albums and cuts performed in other tongues are ineligible, but typically they are only included in specific genre fields like Latin, global and the recently introduced African category. Song of the Year, which is awarded to the people who actually put pen to paper and wrote a track — not always the musicians who make a tune famous, though there’s usually overlap — features eight spots. For the first time ever, multiple potential winners are written either wholly or partially in a language other than English. Bad Bunny, Rosé and ‘Golden’ Represent Non-English Music Three of the eight nominated singles for Song of the Year feature non-English lyrics. Bad Bunny is up for the honor for “DTMF,” which is performed entirely in Spanish. Two cuts that include Korean lyrics — “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters and Blackpink singer Rosé’s “Apt.,” a team-up with Bruno…
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