Canadians chase 2027 Grammy nominations into the final weekend before the Recording Academy announces the 69th Grammy Awards field on Monday, November 16, 2026, with Justin Bieber and Tate McRae among the most heavily submitted names in pop. The nominations presentation starts at 4:45 a.m. PT and 7:45 a.m. ET, and the complete list across 100 categories posts at 9 a.m. ET, according to the Academy’s official Grammys live blog.
A necessary honesty note before the names: what exists today is submissions, the entries labels and artists have put forward for consideration, tracked in published for your consideration listings. Submissions are not nominations. The Academy’s voters decide the field, and Monday morning is when anyone, including the artists, finds out who actually made it.
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The Canadians chase 2027 Grammy nominations with real volume
Bieber’s reported submission slate is the deepest of any Canadian. Swag II is entered for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. Speed Demon is entered for Record of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Music Video. His Tems collaboration, I Think You’re Special, is entered for Best R&B Song and for the duo and group performance honours, in a year when the Academy has introduced a dedicated Best R&B Collaboration or Duo/Group Performance category for the 2027 awards.
McRae’s slate is narrower and sharper. Tit For Tat is entered for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance, and Nobody’s Girl is entered for Best Music Video. The Calgary singer’s submission run follows a year in which So Close To What topped the Billboard 200 and her single Housewife opened her next chapter this fall. A first Grammy nomination is the one major line her resume is still missing, and Monday decides whether the chase ends.
The Tems connection runs both ways
The most interesting Canadian thread in the submissions is a collaboration. Tems has entered I Think You’re Special, her song featuring Bieber, across the R&B categories, while her Dave collaboration Raindance is entered for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Melodic Rap Performance and Best Rap Song, and Big Daddy is in for Best African Music Performance. If the Bieber duet advances, a Canadian voice sits inside one of the season’s most watched R&B entries, a reminder that the Canadian story at the Grammys increasingly runs through collaborations as much as solo entries.
The dates that govern the race
The 2027 Grammys recognise music released between August 31, 2025 and August 28, 2026, and the ceremony itself airs Sunday, February 7, 2027 from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The nominations announcement will be presented by a roster that includes Pharrell Williams, Kehlani, David Guetta and Ziggy Marley, and it streams on Grammy.com and the Academy’s YouTube channel.
For Canadian music, Monday’s list is the verdict on a strong eligibility year: a Bieber comeback album cycle that produced two full albums, a McRae era that reached number one, and Canadian producers and songwriters threaded through other artists’ entries across the ballot. iimiTV will publish the full Canadian nominations breakdown when the list posts at 9 a.m. ET on November 16. Until then, the chase is exactly that, a chase, and the submissions say the Canadians are in it in numbers.
