
Genre
R&B
Wins*
678
Nominations*
3201
2009 - 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Beyoncé
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
Pretty Wings
Maxwell
Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Blame It
Jamie Foxx
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
At Last
Beyoncé
Best Urban/Alternative Performance
Pearls
India.Arie
Best R&B Song
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Best R&B Album
Blacksummers' Night
Maxwell
Best Contemporary R&B Album
I Am... Sasha Fierce
Beyoncé
All Nominations From This Genre
*Through the 65th GRAMMY Nominations
Music Facts: R&B
R&B, short for "rhythm and blues," was born in African American communities in the 1940s.
R&B's stylistic origins include jazz, blues, spirituals, gospel, boogie-woogie, jump blues, and swing.
In 2017, rap and R&B became the biggest music genre in the U.S., in terms of total consumption, surpassing rock for the first time ever.
Famous recent R&B GRAMMY winners include John Legend, Anderson .Paak, H.E.R., and Bruno Mars.
At the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2021, the Recording Academy introduced the Best Progressive R&B Album category, formerly known as the Best Urban Contemporary Album category, to "appropriately categorize and describe this subgenre" and reflect a "more accurate definition to describe the merit or characteristics of music compositions or performances themselves within the genre of R&B."