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Latin music is getting shown a lot of love at the 2026 Grammy Awards. While Bad Bunny continues to make history at the awards, there’s another wave of Latin acts that are ready to take Spanish-language music to the next level.

Bad Bunny is the most nominated Latin act at next year’s ceremony with six nominations. The Puerto Rican superstar, who has previously won three Grammys, is making history with his nominations in three major categories. For the first time in a single year at the Grammys, Spanish-language music is nominated in the Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year categories. Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos is up for the top prize while “DtMF” competes in two other categories. Only two Spanish-language LPs have ever been nominated for Album of the Year: Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti and Debí Tirar Más Fotos.

Karol G is another Latin juggernaut who is nominated at next year’s Grammy Awards. The Colombian superstar won her very first Grammy Award at last year’s ceremony in the Best Música Urbana Album category for Mañana Será Bonito. Karol G also made history as the first woman to win in that category. With her showgirl-inspired Tropicoqueta album, she is competing in the Best Latin Pop Album category. Now Uproxx is looking at standout Latin acts who could potentially win their first Grammy next year. Whether they walk away with a golden gramophone or not, each nominee is reshaping Latin music in their own way.

Feid

For the past five years, Feid has proudly represented his homeland of Medellín in reggaeton music. About introducing Colombian slang into the genre, he told Uproxx in 2023, “Our culture and our form of expressing ourselves that is special to us Colombians is taking over the world.” This year, Feid took a big risk with his latest LP Ferxxo Vol X: Sagrado that he produced, mixed, and mastered himself. The gamble paid off with a nomination in the Best Música Urbana Album.

Fuerza Regida

After years of cultivating the Mexican corridos tumbados scene, Fuerza Regida have finally received their first Grammy nomination. The Mexican-American group is known for their corridos that reflect life on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Last year, lead singer Jesús Ortíz Paz told Uproxx, “Getting to implement our style, the way we dress, the way we flow, and the way we do our thing into our Mexican culture is dope.” Fuerza Regida’s joint EP with Grupo Frontera, Mala Mía, is nominated for Best Música Mexicana Album.

Nicki Nicole

Nicki Nicole is one of Argentina’s top artists. She first started out as a pioneer of the country’s trap scene before blossoming into a Latin pop star with plenty of swagger. After multiple Latin Grammy nominations over the past few years, Nicole has finally received her first Grammy nomination. Her most recent LP Naiki is nominated for Best Música Urbana Album. She made a triumphant return to her Argentine trap roots with acts like Khea and Duki.

Trueno

After years of leading the Latin rap and hip-hop scenes, Trueno has received his first Grammy nomination. The former freestyle battler positioned himself as Argentina’s top rapper before going global with last year’s viral “Real Gangsta Love.” With this year’s EUB Deluxe, Trueno received a co-sign from hip-hop legend DJ Premier in “344.” He also interpolated the classic “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five into Spanish in “Grandmaster.” Trueno’s EUB Deluxe, which features Feid, an is nominated for Best Música Urbana Album.

Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso

2025 is the year of Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso. After going viral last year with their NPR Tiny Desk performance, the daring Argentine duo have kept the momentum going by performing at every major music festival. Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso channeled their conflicted feelings about their sudden fame into the playful Papota EP, which is nominated for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album. After opening for the Latin American leg of Kendrick Lamar’s Grand National Tour and recently collaborating with Fred Again, they’re just getting started.

Rauw Alejandro

Last year, Rauw Alejandro solidified his crossover from reggaeton leader to global pop star with his Cosa Nuestra album. In addition to cranking out reggaeton hits like “Qué Pasaría…” with Bad Bunny “Revolú” featuring Feid, he embraced more genres of the Caribbean. Alejandro took on salsa music with his fiery cover of Frankie Ruiz’s “Tú Con Él” and collaborated with bachata king Romeo Santos in the dreamy “Khé?” Now the Puerto Rican superstar is competing in the Best Latin Pop Album category.

The end of the year is coming. We’re in the middle of November and new Christmas recordings are starting to pop up, so it’s now time to start thinking about music fans’ favorite annual tradition: Spotify Wrapped, the streaming platform’s round-up of users’ listening habits.

The big issue with Spotify Wrapped is that it’s hard to know exactly when it’s coming, since there’s no set “Spotify Wrapped Day” that’s unchanging year-by-year. So, as far as when the 2026 edition will premiere, we don’t yet know. But, based on past years, we can come up with a strong estimate.

These are the dates Wrapped has dropped over the past few years:

2018: December 6
2019: December 5
2020: December 1
2021: December 1
2022: November 30
2023: November 29
2024: December 4

So, expect Wrapped 2026 to arrive in late November or early December.

For those who don’t want to wait, Spotify recently rolled out a new feature: Earlier this month, they announced listening stats. As their announcement post explains, “Available to Free and Premium users in more than 60 markets worldwide, this new feature shows your top artists and songs from the past four weeks, and it serves up playlists inspired by what you love or tracks you might want to queue up next. Each week, it also includes a special highlight that captures what makes your listening unique, whether it’s a milestone, a new discovery, or a fan moment.”

Klay Thompson is standing up for his lady Megan Thee Stallion after she was blamed for his on court slump. Despite being a four-time NBA champion and the current record-holder for most points in a quarter (37!), Klay’s current production has paled in comparison to his prime. He’s currently averaging just 8.5 points a game for the Dallas Mavericks, playing the lowest minutes since his rookie season for the Golden State Warriors (2011–12).

On a recent podcast, former NBA star Jason Williams (White Chocolate!) attributed his athletic woes to his domestic bliss, crassly saying it “only takes one p**** to drag a battleship across the desert … That’s how powerful it is.” He also directed commentary directly at Klay by name, remarking, “Klay Thompson, I ain’t sayin’ that’s what it is… but that might be what it is.”

After the social media admins for Williams’ podcast shared the clip on Instagram, Thompson himself chimed in in the comments section, writing, “Referring to my GF as a ‘p—y’ is so disgusting and disturbing. Especially from someone who played in the NBA. How would yall feel if I referred to your wives in such a way ? Do better fellas. Very disappointing.”

Klay and Meg first went public with their relationship in the summertime, and when he was asked about her on the red carpet of her foundation’s gala, he called her a “sweet lady” as he showed off a watch she’d given him.

As for the real reason that Thompson hasn’t been playing as well; you can probably attribute that to age and injury, as well as being on a new team that is playing through its fair share of behind-the-scenes turmoil (Nico Harrison). In Game 6 of the 2019 Finals against the Toronto Raptors, Thompson tore his ACL, and missed the entire 2020–21 season due to a torn Achilles.

It was previously known that Charli XCX was writing some music for the upcoming Wuthering Heights movie. It turns out her involvement runs deeper than just a few songs, though, as today (November 13), Charli announced an entire Wuthering Heights album, set for February 13, 2026.

She also shared a new song, “Chains Of Love.” A number of comments on the YouTube upload are from fans comparing the song to Charli’s 2013 debut album True Romance.

Meanwhile, Charli just launched a Substack newsletter and in her first post, she explained how she got involved with the movie, writing, “In early December 2024 I got a text from an unknown number that turned out to be Emerald Fennell. […] I began to sink into this reimagined world of Wuthering Heights and I suddenly began to feel… inspired. I was immersing myself in a story that was not my own, a story that was steeped in history, a story that had existed since 1847 (tysm Emily Brontë). I was purely a voyeur and I was enjoying being one. The language of this world felt so opposite from the world I had been inhabiting for the past 2 and a half years. I began to feel a sense of freedom again.”

She continued:

“I called Emerald and asked her what she was hoping for from my read of the script. She coyly suggested ‘A song?’ and I suggested ‘An album?’ because why not? I wanted to dive into persona, into a world that felt undeniably raw, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and full of actual real sentences, punctuation and grammar. Without a cigarette or a pair of sunglasses in sight, it was all totally other from the life I was currently living. I was f*cking IN.”

Listen to “Chains Of Love” above.

Charli XCX’s Wuthering Heights Album Cover Artwork

Wuthering Heights is out 2/13/2026 via Atlantic Records. Find more information here.

Charli XCX is on Substack now! Charli gets vulnerable in the inaugural post she shared yesterday, revealing that she was getting a bit tired of Brat towards the end of it.

Writing about how people latched onto the album and the project shifted to belonging to the public, Charli said:

“When this moment happens I normally go searching elsewhere for fulfillment. But with brat, my latest baby, people seemed to care about her more than usual. So I stuck with her and watched her grow. It was fun, don’t get me wrong, I reached new highs and new lows and both were equally important. But by the end of the process I sort of felt like I was squeezing blood from a stone, trying to get every last drop of liquid life out of an idea I had already been sat with for years prior. I still love her, don’t get me wrong but I was itching to move on and was simultaneously frustrated that I was so depleted that I couldn’t. I was stuck, I was empty, I was barren, I was running on the spot in a different kind of way. I couldn’t really even listen to music without feeling depressed. Everything felt monotonous and boring, even if it wasn’t.”

She also said she’s more excited by her movie work at the moment, writing, “As some of you may know I’m currently feeling more inspired by film than I am by music. Film is where my creative brain seems to be gravitating. I’m enjoying acting, I’m enjoying writing, I’m enjoying watching and I’m above all enjoying discovering a new craft. Those things feel really enriching and instinctual to me at the moment but also music is a limb I will probably never fully be able to cut from my body despite trying quite hard to do so at points.”

Read the full post here.

In 2015, Canadian singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr. released his debut album, Goon. The project earned some acclaim and was one of the year’s best-reviewed albums. He even performed with The Roots on Fallon.

After that, though, he shifted gears, instead carving out a career in more of a background role, as a songwriter. Over the past decade, he was at least partially responsible for a lot of songs you’ve probably heard of: Adele’s “When We Were Young” and Niall Horan’s “Slow Hands” are a couple examples, while he also all over projects like Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism, Dijon’s Baby, and Justin Bieber’s two Swag albums.

Now, with years of high-level songwriting under his belt, Jesso is giving his career as a primary artist another shot. Today (November 13), Jesso announced a new album, Shine (stylized as s h i n e. He also shared a video for “I Love You,” which arrives with a video featuring Dakota Johnson and Riley Keough.

Meanwhile, at the 2026 Grammys, Jesso is nominated for Songwriter Of The Year, Non-Classical. This comes after he won the award in 2023, the first time it was ever handed out.

Watch the “I Love You” video above.

Shine is out 11/21.

Over nearly three decades with Gorillaz, Damon Albarn has had the opportunity to work with a bunch of music icons. One of the ones that got away, though, was David Bowie.

In a new Radio X interview, Albarn said, “I nearly made a record with Ray Davis and David Bowie back in the late ’90s. That didn’t happen.”

They also discussed getting in the studio with Dionne Warwick but that ultimately not going anywhere. Jamie Hewlett said, “She was in the studio on the piano with Damon saying, ‘I’m not sure about the name of this album Demon Days. Why have you called it Demon Days?’” Albarn added, “I think she just found some of the lyrics and sort of some of the ideas a bit problematic. But an amazing, amazing person nonetheless.”

Albarn also discussed some favorite collaborators, saying, “De La Soul, obviously. Probably very, very important to us just as friends and pre-Gorillaz as an inspiration, you know? They’re really, really important; important to just the history of music, really. People like Bobby Womack, who I went on to make a record with. Just sitting at the piano with Bobby Womack working out new songs, kind of an incredible experience, a voice.”

Watch the full interview above.

The United Society Of Believers In Christ’s Second Appearing, a Christian sect better known as the Shakers, has quite the story. Today, they exist as a historical relic, as a mere three members remain as of 2025. Their past, though, is cinematic enough to get the movie treatment in the upcoming The Testament Of Ann Lee.

The film focuses on Ann Lee, one of the religious movement’s founders, and the story of her vision for the church. Amanda Seyfried stars, as do Lewis Pullman, Tim Blake Nelson, and more.

Ahead of the movie’s release, keep reading for everything you need to know before it hits theaters.

Plot

An official description reads, “From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker’s irrepressible leader, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers. The Testament Of Ann Lee captures the ecstasy and agony of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall and original songs & score by Academy Award winner Daniel Blumberg.”

Fastvold told IndieWire of her approach to the movie:

“Very recently, a third Shaker joined, and no one has joined [since 1978]. It’s quite extraordinary that a third joined, but no, I didn’t want to consult them because my interpretation of this story is probably quite different from theirs. I’ve taken creative liberties. I’ve merged characters. I’ve imagined things. My reason for telling the story is different probably from their reason to be part of this religion. I thought it was more respectful to let them have their relationship and me have mine.”

Cast

The movie stars Amanda Seyfried, Lewis Pullman, Thomasin McKenzie, Christopher Abbott, Tim Blake Nelson, Stacy Martin, Scott Handy, Matthew Beard, Viola Prettejohn, Jamie Bogyo, and David Cale.

Seyfried spoke with The Wrap about the challenges this role presented, saying:

“Getting over my own insecurities with playing somebody who had so much power and felt so strong-willed and someone so committed and someone so devoted. That’s it. That’s not me. But there’s so many qualities about her I could relate to.

In terms of what I couldn’t relate to, the accent, the technical aspect of the accent. I had to let go of my own ear when I’m listening to my own singing because it didn’t need to sound good, it just needed to sound devoted. Just needed to sound true, which is a different way of singing. […] It was just a lot. Choreography is like math to me; I don’t get it. So I had to work extra hard on that. Everything was hard about it. Everything.”

Release Date

The film is set to hit theaters on December 25.

Trailer

Watch the The Testament Of Ann Lee trailer below.

In recent years, Robyn has popped up on new songs here and there, like that Jamie xx collaboration or Charli XCX’s “360” remix, both from last year. As far as her own new songs, though, there haven’t been any since the release of her 2018 album Honey.

She appears to be launching a new era, though, as today (November 12), she has shared a new one, “Dopamine,” a catchy dance-pop number that arrives alongside a video. In a statement, Robyn says of the song:

“Everyone has a phone where they see their heart rate, and we’re learning how to decode our emotions through the hormones and chemical substances in our bodies. It’s almost like we don’t even accept that we’re human anymore, like we’re trying to shoot ourselves out of it and explain every single thing — which I think is great, but that’s also why the world is shit, this idea that you can figure out and win life or something. The doubleness of Dopamine is having an emotion that is super real, super strong, intense, enjoyable or painful, and at the same time knowing that this is just a biological process in my body — and then not to choose religion or science. To just accept that they’re there together and to be able to go in between.”

A press release doesn’t indicate if a new album is coming, but it does note that the song follows a “recent run of public appearances that have created huge anticipation and speculation around new Robyn music.”

Watch the “Dopamine” video above.

With winter coming just weeks away, who is better to help Cardi B bring in the snowy season than The Snowman? The Bronx bombshell’s Am I The Drama? standout “ErrTime” already includes one Atlanta trap star in Latto, and today, Cardi released a remix swapping in one of the godfathers of Atlanta trap, Jeezy.

The new version of the song (dubbed a “Snow Mix”) finds Jeezy opening the song with a brand-new verse before sprinkling his signature ad-libs all over the chorus. “Slow and smooth ass criminal, Teddy P, Easy E / Got that billionaire status, Robert Smith, Gary Vee / How you like it? Bad and bougie, Halle Berry, Cardi B / Drought seasons, know we cuttin’, red alert, Kid Capri.”

Jeezy broke his two-year hiatus since departing Def Jam in 2023 earlier this year with a Gangsta Grillz mixtape, Still Snowin’. The project was noted by fans for departing from Jeezy’s usual trap-style beats for soul samples, so his appearance on “ErrTime” will no doubt be welcomed for bringing him back to his roots.

Cardi, meanwhile, is in the midst of a cultural takeover that has her voicing MTA PSAs, promoting her first-ever tour , and flaunting her baby bump while supporting NFL beau Stefon Diggs.

You can listen to “ErrTime” featuring Jeezy above.