Two Apple Originals Have Been Nominated for Grammy Awards
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The service formerly known as Apple TV+ has already been a trailblazer among streaming services, setting records for Emmy nominations and wins and making history with the first Best Picture Oscar to ever be won by a non-traditional studio.
Now, it looks like Apple can add another feather in its cap, with Grammy Award nominations for two of its highest-profile originals: F1: The Movie and Severance.
Of the four nominations, three are for music featured in Apple’s blockbuster Formula 1 racing flick. The fourth recognizes the overall soundtrack for season 2 of Apple’s sci-fi thriller, Severance.
The 68th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on February 1, 2026, and while it’s surely an honor just to be nominated, Apple will be up against some stiff competition from artists like Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Tyler Childers, and Shaboozey.
The most prominent categories in which songs from F1 have been nominated are Best Dance Pop Recording for Tate McRae’s “Just Keep Watching” and Best Country Solo Performance for Chris Stapleton’s “Bad As I Used to Be.” The full soundtrack has also been nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.
In the Best Dance Pop Recording category, Apple will be facing up against “Bluest Flame” by Selena Gomez & benny blanco, “Abracadabra” by Lady Gaga, “Midnight Sun” by Zara Larsson, and “Illegal” by PinkPantheress.
For Best Country Solo Performance, the other contenders are “Nose on the Grindstone” by Tyler Childers, Shaboozey’s “Good News,” Zach Top’s “I Never Lie,” and “Somewhere Over Laredo” by Lainey Wilson.
The other films in the Best Compilation Soundtrack race are A Complete Unknown, KPop Demon Hunters, Sinners, and Wicked.
Meanwhile, Severance has the distinction of being the sole TV series going up against four feature films for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media: How to Train Your Dragon, Sinners, Wicked, and The Wild Robot.
You can find the full list of nominees on the 2026 Grammy Awards website.
Apple’s History of Acclaim
For Apple, these nominations represent not just recognition for its productions but also a continuation of its long-standing relationship with the music world.
In an interesting twist, it won’t be the first time Apple has been recognized by the Recording Academy.
In 2002, Apple received a Technical Grammy Award for its “outstanding technical contributions to the music industry and recording field.”
Apple Computer, Inc.’s Macintosh computer was a revelation in how personal computers could be used as a creative tool, including in music production. From its introduction, the Mac inspired third party developers to create tools for recording, editing, and playing music. One of these third parties include Digidesign, which introduced Sound Tools as a Mac program. The Mac’s processors and structure allowed it to become seamlessly compatible with production peripherals.
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Ten years later, Steve Jobs, Apple’s legendary co-founder and CEO, was posthumously honored with a Trustees Award to recognize his role “as the mastermind behind major music-related innovations such as iTunes, the iPod and iPhone.” Long-time Apple executive Eddy Cue, who helped Jobs build the iTunes Store, accepted on his behalf.
Still, if Apple wins next year, it will mark the first time it’s walked away with a Grammy award for an actual piece of music — a move that echoes its long road to the Emmys, which began with Outstanding Commercial Awards for 1998’s ”Think Different” campaign and 2014’s “Misunderstood” and a technical award for Siri on Apple TV years before it started cleaning up on Prime Time Emmys for Ted Lasso and The Studio. Even a single win for F1 could help bolster Apple’s push into more blockbuster theatrical releases, but whether it takes home any trophies or not, it’s clear the company’s entertainment ambitions are racing ahead.
