Girl groups are making history at the 2026 Grammys. Not only did global girl group Katseye earn a Best New Artist nomination, but Huntr/x, the girl group from Kpop Demon Hunters, earned numerous nominations for “Golden,” the hit song from the Netflix film.
2026 will mark the first time in nearly 20 years that a girl group’s song gets a nomination in the Song of the Year category, thanks to the nod for “Golden.” The last time that a girl group was nominated in the category was in 2007, when the Chicks won for “Not Ready to Make Nice.”
If “Golden” wins for Song of the Year, the Grammy would go to EJAE and Mark Sonnenblick, who co-wrote the track for Huntr/x, the animated trio voiced by EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami. In the Song of the Year category, “Golden” is up against Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra,” Doechii’s “Anxiety,” Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT,” Bad Bunny’s “DtMF,” Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild,” and Billie Eilish’s “Wildflower.”
Only two other girl group songs have earned Song of the Year nods in the last 25 years: TLC in 2000 for “Unpretty” and Destiny’s Child in 2001 for “Say My Name,” though neither won their awards.
Both Huntr/x’s “Golden” and Katseye’s “Gabriela” make history in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category, since it marks the first time a girl group has been nominated in the category since the award’s creation in 2012. Both songs are up against Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande’s “Defying Gravity,” Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT,” and SZA and Kendrick Lamar’s “30 for 30.”
In the Best New Artist category, Katseye is repping girl groups, which have seen decent representation over the years: Wet Leg was up for the award in 2023, Chloe x Halle earned a nod in 2019, and Haim was up for it in 2015. This year, Katseye will face off against Olivia Dean, the Marías, Addison Rae, Sombr, Leon Thomas, Alex Warren, and Lola Young. The only all-women groups to win the award in Grammy history were the Judds in 1985 and the Chicks in 1999.
Huntr/x’s film KPop Demon Hunters also earned a nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Song Written for a Visual Media for “Golden.”
Aside from Katseye and Kpop Demon Hunters, British R&B trio FLO earned a nod for Best Progressive R&B Album for their Access All Areas album. Jorja Douglas, Stella Quaresma, and Renée Downer follow in the footsteps of Chloe x Halle, who were nominated for Ungodly Hour in 2021 and The Kids Are Alright in 2019. FLO are up against Durand Bernarr’s Bloom, Bilal’s Adjust Brightness, Destin Conrad’s Love on Digital, and Terrace Martin and Kenyon Dixon’s Come As You Are.
