Business Insider’s entertainment team predicts who will take home a Grammy

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Grammy’s night forecast: cloudy with a chance of snubs

After covering the Grammy Awards for nearly two decades, there are a few moments I know will happen on music’s biggest night: Someone will go home happy, and someone will go home sad.

Either way, we’ll get Trevor Noah as the host for his sixth and final time, performances you’ll text about, and candid moments between our favorite singers seated inside LA’s Crypto.com Arena on Sunday. It’ll all air on CBS.

Kendrick Lamar leads with nine nominations, including in the major categories such as Record, Album, and Song of the Year, followed by Lady Gaga and producers Cirkut and Jack Antonoff with seven. We’ll also be watching Super Bowl performer Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter, and my personal favorite, Leon Thomas, to see if they go home with trophies after nabbing six nods.

I asked Business Insider’s entertainment team who they thought would go home with a small, 24K gold-plated gramophone. Here’s what they’re betting on:

Jason Guerrasio, Entertainment correspondent: Tucked away in the midst of the 90-plus Grammy categories is Best Album Cover. I hope it goes to Perfume Genius’ “Glory” cover. Google it. It’s instantly eye-catching.

Samantha Rollins, deputy editor of Entertainment: When “Mayhem” single “Abracadabra” debuted during a commercial break at last year’s Grammys, many posited that Lady Gaga’s newest album would take a back-to-basics approach to the edgy electropop that made her famous. What emerged instead was far more interesting. Lady Gaga’s “Mayhem” is an invigorating return to form that proves one of pop’s most famous shape-shifters can still keep us guessing. She’ll take it for Album of the Year.

Callie Ahlgrim, senior pop culture writer: Record of the Year is supposed to honor the most superb blend of production and performance, but since it tends to favor ubiquity, I have to give the edge to the global pop smash “APT.” Bruno Mars has the cross-generational appeal that Grammy voters can’t resist, and Rosé would make history as the first K-pop star to win in a competitive category.