The Grammy telecast where Bad Bunny made history with his album of the year win is competing with the superstar's Super Bowl halftime show.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 01: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Bad Bunny accepts the Album of the Year award for "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS" from Harry Styles onstage during the 68th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 01, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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The 2026 Grammy Awards telecast was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for outstanding variety special (live) on July 8. It’s the 10th time the annual Grammy telecast has been nominated in that category (or in equivalent predecessor categories). The show has yet to win a top program award. It has lost to the Oscars twice, to the Tonys twice and to a variety of other shows once each.
This year, the Grammys are competing with three other awards shows – the Oscars, the Tonys and the Golden Globes – as well as The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny. That last show may be Grammys’ chief competition this year. Bad Bunny of course was also a major player on the Grammy telecast. He won two on-air awards – album of the year and best música urbana album. And a recurring bit on the show was host Trevor Noah trying to coax him to perform. (His scheduled performance on the Super Bowl just one week later precluded him from performing on the Grammys.)
