The GRAMMYs

2026

Beautifully Broken

Dec 1st, 2025

Best Contemporary Country Album

Best Contemporary Country Album

Nomination

Beautifully Broken (Jelly Roll) is nominated for The GRAMMYs 2026 Best Contemporary Country Album

Beautifully Broken (Jelly Roll) is nominated for The GRAMMYs 2026 Best Contemporary Country Album

Beautifully Broken (Jelly Roll) is nominated for The GRAMMYs 2026 Best Contemporary Country Album

Jelly Roll's tenth studio album, Beautifully Broken, marks his sophomore country release, with net profits from pre-orders benefiting organizations helping individuals facing challenges with mental health and addiction.

Commercial success

  • Debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, earning 161K equivalent units in its first week.

  • Received Platinum certification from the RIAA.

  • Achieved the third-largest week for any country album in 2024, becoming the fifth country album to lead the all-genre Billboard 200 that year.

Cultural impact

  • ESPN selected the album track "Get By" as the official anthem for the 2024-25 college football season.

  • Jelly Roll performed "Winning Streak" during his musical debut on the premiere episode of SNL’s 50th Anniversary Season.

  • He also performed "I Am Not Okay" during the 'In Memoriam' segment at the Emmys.

Critical response

  • Variety described Beautifully Broken as "more ebullient than Jelly Roll’s surprisingly bracing lyrics sometimes are" and a "heartening piece of work." Read full review

  • Rolling Stone highlighted that the album "succeeds because he’s singing about what he knows firsthand." Read full review

  • The Guardian noted that the album's "originality, such that it is, comes from DeFord’s gravelly, untutored voice and the lyrical fixation on addiction." Read full review

Jelly Roll's tenth studio album, Beautifully Broken, marks his sophomore country release, with net profits from pre-orders benefiting organizations helping individuals facing challenges with mental health and addiction.

Commercial success

  • Debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, earning 161K equivalent units in its first week.

  • Received Platinum certification from the RIAA.

  • Achieved the third-largest week for any country album in 2024, becoming the fifth country album to lead the all-genre Billboard 200 that year.

Cultural impact

  • ESPN selected the album track "Get By" as the official anthem for the 2024-25 college football season.

  • Jelly Roll performed "Winning Streak" during his musical debut on the premiere episode of SNL’s 50th Anniversary Season.

  • He also performed "I Am Not Okay" during the 'In Memoriam' segment at the Emmys.

Critical response

  • Variety described Beautifully Broken as "more ebullient than Jelly Roll’s surprisingly bracing lyrics sometimes are" and a "heartening piece of work." Read full review

  • Rolling Stone highlighted that the album "succeeds because he’s singing about what he knows firsthand." Read full review

  • The Guardian noted that the album's "originality, such that it is, comes from DeFord’s gravelly, untutored voice and the lyrical fixation on addiction." Read full review

Jelly Roll's tenth studio album, Beautifully Broken, marks his sophomore country release, with net profits from pre-orders benefiting organizations helping individuals facing challenges with mental health and addiction.

Commercial success

  • Debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, earning 161K equivalent units in its first week.

  • Received Platinum certification from the RIAA.

  • Achieved the third-largest week for any country album in 2024, becoming the fifth country album to lead the all-genre Billboard 200 that year.

Cultural impact

  • ESPN selected the album track "Get By" as the official anthem for the 2024-25 college football season.

  • Jelly Roll performed "Winning Streak" during his musical debut on the premiere episode of SNL’s 50th Anniversary Season.

  • He also performed "I Am Not Okay" during the 'In Memoriam' segment at the Emmys.

Critical response

  • Variety described Beautifully Broken as "more ebullient than Jelly Roll’s surprisingly bracing lyrics sometimes are" and a "heartening piece of work." Read full review

  • Rolling Stone highlighted that the album "succeeds because he’s singing about what he knows firsthand." Read full review

  • The Guardian noted that the album's "originality, such that it is, comes from DeFord’s gravelly, untutored voice and the lyrical fixation on addiction." Read full review