{"id":1718574,"date":"2026-02-01T22:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1718574"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:07:40","slug":"cirkut-wins-producer-of-the-year-non-classical-at-2026-grammys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1718574","title":{"rendered":"Cirkut Wins Producer of the Year, Non-Classical at 2026 Grammys"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cirkut Wins Producer of the Year, Non-Classical at 2026 Grammys<\/h1>\n
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The first-time winner beats out Dan Auerbach, Dijon, Blake Mills, and Sounwave<\/div>\n
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Henry Russell Walter, better known as Cirkut, has won the Producer of the Year, Non-Classical award at the 2026 Grammys. The producer\u2014who assisted on Lady Gaga\u2019s Mayhem<\/em> and the Weeknd\u2019s Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/em>\u2014took the prize ahead of five-time nominee and one-time winner Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, who released an album last year, in addition to his production for the likes of Miles Kane and Hermanos Guti\u00e9rrez; Dijon, who supplemented Baby<\/em> with work on Justin Bieber\u2019s Swag<\/em>; three-time nominee Blake Mills, whose recent credits include Perfume Genius, Japanese Breakfast, and Lucy Dacus; and Sounwave, the co-producer of Kendrick Lamar\u2019s GNX<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you so much,\u201d said Cirkut, while accepting the trophy. \u201cReceiving this from Jimmy Jam, it doesn’t get better than that\u2026. Once upon a time I was a kid making beats in his bedroom in Canada and now I\u2019m here.\u201d Mayhem<\/em> went on to win Best Pop Vocal Album, while the Cirkut-assisted \u201cAbracadabra\u201d won Best Dance Pop Recording.<\/p>\n

At last year\u2019s Grammys, Dan Nigro, the Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan collaborator, took custody of a category that had, for three years, been the exclusive domain of Jack Antonoff, who won in 2022, \u201923, and \u201924, for work that encompassed records by Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, and too many more.<\/p>\n

See the full winners list and follow along with all of Pitchfork\u2019s coverage of the 2026 Grammys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

Source URL: http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/cirkut-wins-producer-of-the-year-non-classical-at-2026-grammys\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Cirkut Wins Producer of the Year, Non-Classical at 2026 Grammys The first-time winner beats out Dan Auerbach, Dijon, Blake Mills, and Sounwave By Jazz Monroe February 1, 2026 Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images Henry Russell Walter, better known as Cirkut, has won the Producer of the Year, Non-Classical award at the 2026 Grammys. The producer\u2014who assisted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,54],"class_list":["post-1718574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-pitchfork-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1718574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}