Awards & Winners

Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works on albums in the urban contemporary sub-genre within the R&B field. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position". This category was one of the three newly created categories for the 55th Grammy Awards. According to the category description guide it is intended for "albums containing at least 51 percent playing time of newly recorded contemporary vocal tracks derivative of R&B. This category is intended for artists whose music includes the more contemporary elements of R&B and may incorporate production elements found in urban pop, urban Euro-pop, urban rock, and urban alternative".

Check all the winners of Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album presented under Grammy Awards since 2012 .


Rihanna

Honored for : Unapologetic

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Tamar Braxton Love and War
Fantasia Side Effects of You
Salaam Remi One: In The Chamber
Rihanna Unapologetic
Tristan Wilds New York: A Love Story

Frank Ocean, Jeff Ellis, Boy Wonder

Honored for : channel ORANGE
(Frank Ocean, artist. Jeff Ellis & Frank Ocean, engineers/mixers. Om'mas Keith & Frank Ocean, producers.)

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Chris Brown Fortune
Miguel Jontel Pimentel Kaleidoscope Dream
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE
Artist, Engineer/Mixer, Producer","Engineer/Mixer","Producer
Jeff Ellis channel ORANGE
Artist, Engineer/Mixer, Producer","Engineer/Mixer","Producer
Boy Wonder channel ORANGE
Artist, Engineer/Mixer, Producer","Engineer/Mixer","Producer