New Industry Focus & ROSTR Launch Independent Voter Guide for 2026 GRAMMYs

New Industry Focus and ROSTR have launched the first-ever edition of their independent Voter Guide for the 2026 GRAMMY Awards.

Why it matters:

• With 95 categories, 497 nominations, and more than 1,000 credited nominees, the 2026 GRAMMY Awards ballot is bigger and more complex than ever.

• Built around data, credits, and criteria rather than opinion or campaign messaging, the NIF & ROSTR Guide cuts through the noise to give voters a clear view of who did what on each nominated project, all in one place – from headline artists to songwriters, producers, engineers, mixers and more.

• The Guide is an independent editorial product from The ROSTR Group, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Recording Academy or the GRAMMY Awards.

Key features:

• Full ballot coverage across all 95 categories for the 2026 GRAMMY Awards.

• 497 nominations and more than 1,000 credited contributors mapped and searchable.

• Category-level views with criteria, field grouping, nomination lists, and core data.

• Contributor-level views that show where individual people appear across categories.

• Fact-based, non-editorial framing designed to inform, not influence, voting decisions.

What they said:

• Mark Williamson, Co-Founder and CEO of The ROSTR Group: “GRAMMY guides have traditionally been heavy on ads and light on actual utility. We built this guide to give voters a super-modern way to get the info they need to cast their votes in one place. No fluff, no opinion.”