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Genre
R&B
Wins*
679
Nominations*
3202
2016 - 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners
Best R&B Performance
Cranes In The Sky
Solange
Best Traditional R&B Performance
Angel
Lalah Hathaway
Best R&B Song
Lake By The Ocean
Best Urban Contemporary Album
Lemonade
Beyoncé
Best R&B Album
Lalah Hathaway Live
Lalah Hathaway
All Nominations From This Genre
*Through the 66th 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."