BEST R&B ALBUM Coming Back To You - Melinda Doolittle Intuition - Jamie Foxx Point of No Return - Anthony Hamilton Evolver - John Legend Epiphany - Chrisette Michele Onmyradio - Musiq Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics -India.Arie Audience of One - Heather Headley Avant - Avant Let's Do It Again - Leela James The Promise - Deborah Cox Charlie Wilson Lotus Flower - Prince Soul - Seal The Rose Experience - Case Conga Square - Teena Marie Just Go - Lionel Richie
BEST CONTEMPORARY R&B ALBUM Freedom - Akon I Am...Sasha Fierce - Beyonce Human - Brandy A Different Me - Keyshia Cole Love vs. Money - The Dream In A Perfect World - Keri Hilson Ryan Leslie - Ryan Leslie Rebirth - Bobby Valentino Thr33 Ringz - T-Pain Fantasy Ride - Ciara Round 2 - J. Holiday Forever in a Day - Day 26
BEST MALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE "When It Hurts" - Avant "Hard to Breathe" - Anthony Hamilton "Everybody Knows" - John Legend "Pretty Wings" - Maxwell "sobeautiful" - Musiq "Mad" - Ne-Yo "How It Was Supposed to Be" - Ryan Leslie "Rockin That Sh*t" - The Dream "Valentine" - Static Major "We Need to Roll" - Joe "Lovely" - Case "The Hunger" - Eric Benet "Chocolate Legs" - Eric Benet "" - Prince "On the Ocean" - K'Jon "I Need A Girl" - Trey Songz "Last Chance" - Ginuwine "Good Morning" - Lionel Richie
BEST FEMALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE "" - Beyonce "Long Distance" - Brandy "You Complete Me" - Keyshia Cole "" - Melinda Doolittle "Epiphany (I'm Leaving)" - Chrisette Michele "Us Against the World" - Christina Milian "" - India.Arie "Lions, Tigers & Bears" - Jazmine Sullivan "Saying Goodbye" - Deborah Cox "Never Ever" - Ciara "" - Keri Hilson "Not Anymore" - LeToya Luckett "From My Heart To Yours" - Laura Izibor
BEST R&B PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCALS "Blame It" - Jamie Foxx f/T-Pain "Trust" - Keyshia Cole f/Monica "Quickly" - John Legend f/Brandy "No Other Love" - John Legend f/Estelle "Ifuleave" - Musiq f/Mary J. Blige "Chocolate High" - India.Arie f/Musiq "Nothing Left to Say" - Mint Condition "Come Over" - Estelle f/Sean Paul "Freeze" - T-Pain f/Chris Brown "My Love" - The Dream f/Mariah Carey "Can't Last A Day" - Teena Marie & Faith Evans "What To Do" - Chrisette Michele f/Ne-Yo "Perfectly Blind[/i] - Day 26 "Just Go" - Lionel Richie f/Akon "Nothing Left to Give" - Lionel Richie f/Akon
BEST R&B SONG "Blame It" (Jame Foxx f/T-Pain) "Just Like Me" "Pretty Wings" (Maxwell) "Turnin' Me On" (Keri Hilson f/Lil Wayne)
BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE "Face the Crowd" - Lionel Richie "I Need A Love Song" - Babyface "It's Your Love" - Melinda Doolittle "There Goes My Baby" - Charlie Wilson "T.O.N.Y." - Solange "F.W.B." - Wayne Brady "Still Hurts" - Macy Gray & Marsha Ambrousius
BEST URBAN/ALTERNATIVE PERFORMANCE "Manwomanboogie" - Q-Tip f/Amanda Diva "Say You Will" - Kanye West
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Originally posted by DCurrie: OMG! Are those seriously the top contenders for BEST CONTEMPORARY R&B ALBUM?!
I know. When I was typing out the list of contenders, I just kept shaking my head. The list of contenders thus far in almost every category are turgid.
Originally posted by DCurrie: OMG! Are those seriously the top contenders for BEST CONTEMPORARY R&B ALBUM?!
I know. When I was typing out the list of contenders, I just kept shaking my head. The list of contenders thus far in almost every category are turgid.
I agree, but this looks to be by far the worst for this genre lol.
And after that we can Ketchup like tomato. We can make love in Italy in the grotto. Fresh off the jet at the met, they screamin' bravo, bravo, bravo.
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I saw online earlier today that Seal's album has sold over 400,000 copies thus far...he's doing better than some of the other artists out there right now...
Teena Marie's new album, Conga Square, comes out June 9.
Oh man I'm just hearing "Can't Last A Day" (f/Faith Evans) for the first time. It's excellent. Should Teena and Faith go R&B Duo/Group or Traditional R&B Vocal? Teena Marie is way overdue to win a Grammy. It's an outrage she doesn't have one. This chick has been around since the late '70s and is still putting out quality R&B albums unlike many of the other oldheads from her time (Lionel Richie I'm looking at you).
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Originally posted by DoubleD: Teena Marie's new album, Conga Square, comes out June 9.
Oh man I'm just hearing "Can't Last A Day" (f/Faith Evans) for the first time. It's excellent. Should Teena and Faith go R&B Duo/Group or Traditional R&B Vocal? Teena Marie is way overdue to win a Grammy. It's an outrage she doesn't have one. This chick has been around since the late '70s and is still putting out quality R&B albums unlike many of the other oldheads from her time (Lionel Richie I'm looking at you).
I agree as well! I love me some Teena. I saw her last year in Chicago she was excellent. It probably would be better for her to submit that in Traditional to have a better chance of winning.
Posts: 1766 | Location: Wisconsin | Registered: September 25, 2007
Contemporary R&B Album - Intuition, Epiphany, I Am...Sasha Fierce, A Different Me, Ryan Leslie
**Jamie Foxx cd is definetely contemporary, no way it could be R&B. I think Chrisette will be submitted here as well. I see Keri and Dream being snubbed for Ryan and Chrisette.
Female Vocal: "?" Beyonce, You Complete Me, Epiphany, Lions, Tigers & Bears, From My Heart To Yours
Male Vocal: Pretty Wings, SoBeautiful, Mad, Everybody Knows, "?" Prince
Best R&B Song: Pretty Wings, Blame It, Epiphany, You Complete Me, Mad
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Also, I really think that Intuition and Epiphany should be put in Contemporary. The latter can probably slide by and enter the R&B Album category, but there's no way that Jamie Foxx's album can pass for anything else but Contemporary. The only reason his debut [unfairly] went into R&B Album was because his and Mary's label went running scared from Beyonce. Both of them should've gone Contemporary that year (in which case Mary should've & would've won. I'm just glad she won Best R&B Album anyway.)
Originally posted by MrTalented: The only reason his debut [unfairly] went into R&B Album was because his and Mary's label went running scared from Beyonce.
I keep reading things like this and I really don't understand it. How did you draw this conclusion? Is there any proof that Jamie Foxx and Mary went to Best R&B Album just to avoid Beyonce?
I do think Mary's and Jamie's albums had a little bit of contemporary R&B on them, but some may even argue that their albums deserved to be in R&B Album. Most of the tracks on Unpredictable are typical sappy slow jams that would only make buzz on R&B radio. Most of the songs on The Breakthrough were traditional R&B (i.e "This Ain't Really Love," "I Found My Everything," "Father in You," "No One Will Do"). So, their inclusions in R&B Album is as acceptable as their latest albums going Contemporary R&B. Growing Pains and Intuition are much more upbeat followups, so Contemporary R&B is/was great submissions for them.
I never understood why some folks on here thought Beyonce was the sole reason for Mary's and Jamie's labels submitting their work to another category. At that time, Jamie and Mary were huge and had a lot of buzz. Beyonce didn't get buzz until "Irreplaceable" was released and that was after the submissions and nominations. I never understood that.
