Sabrina Carpenter Is a Grammy Nominee for Album of the Year for the 2nd Year in Row. How Rare Is That?

Sabrina Carpenter is nominated for album of the year at the upcoming 68th Grammy Awards for Man’s Best Friend, just as she was at the 2025 ceremony for Short n’ Sweet. That puts her in an elite club.

Since the 1970 Grammy ceremony, just 13 acts have been nominated for album of the year at back-to-back ceremonies. (Before 1970, artists often released an album, or even multiple albums, every year, so it was much more common to be nominated in back-to-back years.)

A special shoutout to two artists who were nominated in back-to-back years two times. Both also were nominated in four out of five consecutive years. (The technical term for that is “being on a roll.”) Billy Joel was up for album of the year at the 1980 and 1981 ceremonies, took a year off in 1982, and was back in the running in 1983 and 1984. Taylor Swift was up for the top album award at the 2021 and 2022 ceremonies, was not in contention in 2023, and was back in her usual spot in 2024 and 2025.

Grammy fever is heating up as final-round voting opens on Friday (Dec. 12). Voting will continue over the holidays and close on Jan. 5. The 68th annual Grammy Awards will be presented at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Feb. 1.

Here are all the artists since the 1970 ceremony who were nominated for album of the year in back-to-back years. The years shown are the years of the Grammy ceremony.