{"id":1718577,"date":"2026-02-01T22:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1718577"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:24:53","slug":"zach-top-wins-best-traditional-country-album-for-aint-in-it-for-my-health-at-2026-grammys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1718577","title":{"rendered":"Zach Top Wins Best Traditional Country Album for Ain\u2019t in It for My Health at 2026 Grammys"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zach Top Wins Best Traditional Country Album for Ain\u2019t in It for My Health<\/em> at 2026 Grammys<\/h1>\n
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Top beat out records by Charley Crockett, Lukas Nelson, Margo Price, and Willie Nelson<\/div>\n
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Zach Top has won the inaugural award for Best Traditional Country Album at the 2026 Grammys for Ain\u2019t in It for My Health<\/em>. Top came out on top over fellow nominees Charley Crockett (Dollar a Day<\/em>), Lukas Nelson (American Romance<\/em>), Margo Price (Hard Headed Woman<\/em>), and Willie Nelson (Oh What a Beautiful World<\/em>).<\/p>\n

This is Top\u2019s first win of the night and indeed his first ever. He was also up for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for the Ain\u2019t in It for My Health<\/em> single \u201cI Never Lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyonc\u00e9 took home the 2025 Best Country Album Grammy for Cowboy Carter<\/em>. It was her first year being nominated in any of the awards\u2019 country music categories. (Nearly a decade prior, the Grammys\u2019 country music committee had rejected her submission of \u201cDaddy Lessons,\u201d from 2016\u2019s Lemonade<\/em>.) The Recording Academy subsequently announced that it was splitting up the Best Country Album category into two awards: Best Contemporary Country Album and Best Traditional Country Album.<\/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\/zach-top-wins-best-traditional-country-album-for-aint-in-it-for-my-health-at-2026-grammys\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Zach Top Wins Best Traditional Country Album for Ain\u2019t in It for My Health at 2026 Grammys Top beat out records by Charley Crockett, Lukas Nelson, Margo Price, and Willie Nelson By Walden Green February 1, 2026 Zach Top (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images) Zach Top has won the inaugural award for Best Traditional […]<\/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-1718577","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\/1718577","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=1718577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}