Genre
R&B
Wins*
679
Nominations*
3202
2010 - 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners
Female R&B Vocal Performance
Bittersweet
Fantasia
Male R&B Vocal Performance
There Goes My Baby
Usher
R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Soldier Of Love
Sade
Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
Hang On In There
John Legend
Urban/Alternative Performance
Fuck You
Cee Lo Green
R&B Song
Shine
R&B Album
Wake Up!
John Legend
Contemporary R&B Album
Raymond V Raymond
Usher
All Nominations From This Genre
*Through the 65th GRAMMY Awards
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."