Outstanding Music Artist Adam Lambert, Velvet (More Is More/Empire) Brandy Clark, Your Life Is a Record (Warner Records) Halsey, Manic (Capitol) Kehlani, It Was Good Until It Wasn't (Atlantic) Lady Gaga, Chromatica (Streamline/Interscope) Miley Cyrus, Plastic Hearts (RCA) Pabllo Vittar, 111 (BMT/Sony Music Brasil) Peppermint, A Girl Like Me: Letters to My Lovers (Producer Entertainment Group) Ricky Martin, Pausa (Sony Latin) Sam Smith, Love Goes (Capitol)
Outstanding Breakthrough Music Artist Arca, KiCk i (XL) Chika, Industry Games (Warner Records) FLETCHER, The (S)ex Tapes (Capitol) Keiynan Lonsdale, Rainbow Boy (Keiynan Lonsdale) Kidd Kenn, Child’s Play (Island Records) Orville Peck, Show Pony (Columbia/Sub Pop) Phoebe Bridgers, Punisher (Dead Oceans) Rina Sawayama, Sawayama (Dirty Hit/Avex Trax) Trixie Mattel, Barbara (Producer Entertainment Group/ATO Records) Victoria Monét, Jaguar (Tribe Records)
Special Recognition After Forever (Amazon) Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast Happiest Season Soundtrack (Facet/Warner Records) Noah’s Arc: The ‘Rona Chronicles (Patrik Ian-Polk Entertainment) Out (Pixar/Disney+) Razor Tongue (YouTube) "The Son" Little America (Apple TV+) Special Recognition (Spanish-Language) Jesse & Joy, “Love (Es Nuestro Idioma)”