The Grammy Nominees is a series of various artists compilation albums. Albums are released before the airing of the annual Grammy Awards. All of the songs on the albums are Grammy nominated in the year released. The first one of these albums was released in 1995 and has been released every year since to date. Each one through the 2007 edition has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), while the 1996 and 2000 editions have also been certified Platinum.

Other Grammy series albums have also been attempted for rap (1999–2001) and Latin music (1998–2005) nominees.
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