Rosalía won Album of the Year for Lux (Complete Works) at the 27th Annual Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday, November 12, 2026, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. It is her third win in the category, a total no woman had reached before, and the Latin Recording Academy’s official winners list marks Lux (Complete Works) as the winner of Category 2.
Juanes presented the Album of the Year award, the last of the night’s four general field honours. The Associated Press, reporting from Las Vegas on the night, put it plainly: Spanish singer Rosalía took home the top prize of album of the year at the 2026 Latin Grammys for her 2025 album Lux.
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Rosalía Album of the Year Latin Grammys Win Makes History
The history is in the count. Rosalía first won this award in 2019 for El Mal Querer, then won it again in 2022 for Motomami, when she became the first female artist to win the category twice. A third win moves her past that mark and into different company altogether: she now sits alongside Alejandro Sanz and Juanes on three Album of the Year wins, with only Juan Luis Guerra, on five, ahead of her in the category’s history. No other woman is close to that line.
The field she beat explains why the win carries weight beyond the record itself. The ten nominees were Anitta’s Equilibrivm, CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso’s Free Spirits, Jorge Drexler’s Taracá, Silvana Estrada’s Vendrán Suaves Lluvias, Karol G’s Tropicoqueta, Mon Laferte’s Femme Fatale, Carín León’s Muda, Milo J’s La Vida Era Más Corta, Rawayana’s ¿Dónde Es El After? and Lux. The official credits for the winning album name Noah Goldstein, David Rodríguez, Rosalía and Dylan Wiggins as album producers, Manny Marroquin as mixer, and Bob Jackson and Brian Lee as mastering engineers.
A Six-Category Night for Lux and La Perla
Album of the Year was not an isolated result. Rosalía arrived with seven nominations, tied for the second most of any artist, and her work won across six categories on the night. Lux (Complete Works) also took Best Alternative Music Album, and the album won Best Engineered Album for its engineering team. Her song La Perla, featuring Yahritza y Su Esencia, won both Song of the Year and Best Pop Song, with songwriting credits shared by Noah Goldstein, David Rodríguez, Rosalía, Ryan Tedder and Dylan Wiggins. Sauvignon Blanc won Best Short Form Music Video, directed by Noah Dillon.
The Associated Press reported that when La Perla won song of the year, Rosalía thanked Mexico in her speech and invited her collaborators on the song, the American urban sierreño trio Yahritza y Su Esencia, to join her on stage. She had opened the ceremony itself hours earlier, performing a medley of the Lux tracks La Rumba del Perdón, La Perla and Dios Es Un Stalker, joined by dancers ornamented with halos on a stage made to look like heavenly clouds.
What Lux Is, and Why Voters Chose It
Lux is Rosalía’s fourth studio album, released on November 7, 2025 through Columbia Records, with the digital reissue Lux (Complete Works), carrying all 18 tracks, following on April 17, 2026. The album is built in four movements and was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daníel Bjarnason, with Rosalía as executive producer. Its guest voices include Björk, Carminho, Estrella Morente, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Yahritza y Su Esencia and Yves Tumor, and its songs draw on the lives of female saints, sung in more than a dozen languages, from her native Catalan and Spanish to Arabic, Japanese and Ukrainian.
Writing on the album’s first anniversary this month, Rosalía described the ambition behind it in her own words: “When I was making this album, I was thinking about cathedrals. Trying to make an album that sounds like a cathedral, I don’t know if I succeeded, I suppose just trying is enough for me.” The scale was commercial as well as artistic. Lux debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, her first top 10 album in the United States, and reached No. 1 across five Billboard album rankings, including Top Latin Albums and Top Latin Pop Albums.
The ceremony, hosted by Roselyn Sánchez for a tenth time, honoured recordings released between June 1, 2025 and May 31, 2026 across 60 categories, with Daddy Yankee named the Academy’s Person of the Year. Within that room, Lux was the night’s defining album: the record that opened the show, supplied the song of the year, and closed the night with its biggest prize.
What a Third Win Changes
Each of Rosalía’s three Album of the Year wins belongs to a different artistic phase: the flamenco and pop fusion of El Mal Querer, the reggaeton and experimental pop of Motomami, and now the orchestral, multilingual Lux. Winning the same top honour with three records that sound almost nothing alike is the rarest part of the achievement, and it is why the third win reads as a career verdict rather than a single album’s moment.
Rosalía leaves Las Vegas as the most decorated woman in this category’s history, level with two of its defining male winners and chasing only Guerra. Lux began as an attempt to build a cathedral out of an album. On Thursday night, Latin music’s own academy treated it like one.
References
Latin Recording Academy, 2026 Latin Grammys Winners Full List (grammy.com)
Associated Press, Rosalía’s Lux wins album of the year at the 2026 Latin Grammy Awards
Rolling Stone, Rosalía Makes History With Third Album of the Year Win at the Latin Grammys
