The biggest surprise for Album of the Year was "A Sailor's Guide to Earth" by Sturgill Simpson, a country singer who has won a high-brow audience with abstract lyricism including meditations on Tibetan Buddhism.
Lielākais pārsteigums šajā kategorijā ir kantri mūziķa Stērdžila Simpsona albuma "A Sailor 's Guide to Earth" izvirzīšana gada labākā albuma godam.