Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars have won 28 Grammy Awards between them – 13 for her, 15 for him – so it doesn’t take a genius to know that their recently released collaboration, “Die With a Smile,” is a strong contender for Grammy nominations. The song was released on August 16, two weeks before the conclusion of the 67th Annual Grammy Awards.

The instant hit has a good chance of being nominated for record of the year, song of the year and best performance by pop duo/group.

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Both artists have been nominated multiple times for record of the year for previous collaborations. Mars has been nominated three times for collaborations – as a featured artist on B.o.B.’s “Nothin’ on You” and Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk!” and as a co-lead artist with Anderson .Paak on Silk Sonic’s “Leave the Door Open.” If he’s nominated again for “Die With a Smile,” he’ll break out of a tie with Jay-Z and Rihanna as the artist with the most record of the year nominations as part of a collaboration.

Gaga is nominated for record of the year for two previous collaborations – “Shallow” with Bradley Cooper and “I Get a Kick Out of You” with Tony Bennett. If all singles are counted, not just collabs, this would be Mars’ seventh record of the year nomination; Gaga’s fourth.

The Grammy nominations will be announced on November 8. The 67th Annual Grammy Awards will be presented on February 2, 2025 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

Gaga and Mars co-wrote and produced “Die With a Smile” with Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II and Andrew Watt. James Fauntleroy served as an additional co-writer.

Mars has one of the best batting averages of any artist in Grammy history, having won 15 awards from just 31 nominations. Adele once had 15 awards from just 18 nominations, but her batting average dipped a bit when she won just one award from seven nominations in 2023. (Her current tally—16 awards from 25 nominations—is still pretty awesome!)

Gaga has won 13 awards from 36 nominations.

While it’s too early to predict who will win in the major categories, if “Die With a Smile” wins record of the year, Mars would set a major Grammy record: the first artist to win record of the year four times. He would break a tie with Paul Simon, who has won three times (counting two Simon & Garfunkel classics).

Mars won the award in 2016 as a featured artist on Ronson’s “Uptown Funk!”, in 2018 for the solo hit “24K Magic” and together with Anderson .Paak in 2022 for Silk Sonic’s “Leave the Door Open.”

If they win Song of the Year, Mars and D’Mile would become the first three-time winners in the category. They are currently tied with Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer, Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell, Adele, Brody Brown, James Horner, Will Jennings and the members of U2, with two wins each.

Mars previously won song of the year for his collaborations on “That’s What I Like” and “Leave the Door Open.” D’Mile previously won for his collaborations on HER’s “I Can’t Breathe” and “Leave the Door Open.”

If “Die With a Smile” wins either Record or Song of the Year, it would be Gaga’s first win in one of the so-called Big Four categories (Album, Record or Song of the Year plus Best New Artist).

If the collab wins the award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, it would mark Gaga’s record-breaking third win in the category, following wins for pairings with Cooper (“Shallow”) and Ariana Grande (“Rain on Me”). Gaga is currently tied with SZA with two wins each in the category (which was introduced during the 2012 ceremony).

Gaga and Mars share another Grammy tie: Neither was nominated for best new artist, despite both having stellar career starts. In both cases, it’s because their breakthroughs ran afoul of Grammy eligibility rules in that category.

Gaga competed for Best New Artist at the 2009 awards, but she was not nominated. She was nominated that year for Best Dance Recording for “Just Dance,” her Hot 100-topping collaboration with Colby O’Donis. That nomination prevented her from getting a second shot at Best New Artist the following year (the norm in that category for artists whose breakthroughs don’t fall neatly in a single Grammy-qualifying year).

Mars was never nominated for best new artist. He received seven nominations at the 2011 awards, and won best male pop vocal performance for his Hot 100-topper “Just the Way You Are.” But because his first full-length album had not yet been released by the end of that year of eligibility — it came out four days later, on Oct. 4, 2010 — he was ineligible for best new artist that year. And he was ineligible for the category the following year because he was a Grammy winner at the time. (That’s what you call a Grammy Catch-22.)

The fact that neither artist received a nomination for Best New Artist does not seem to have unnecessarily set back their careers.

“Die With a Smile” is expected to make a bid for a top 10 debut on the Billboard Hot 100 next week, with the chart being revealed on Monday (August 26).

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