Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album

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Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album
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SOS by SZA is the most recent recipient
Awarded forQuality progressive R&B music albums
CountryUnited States
Presented by The Recording Academy
First awarded2013
Currently held by SZA – SOS (2024)
Website grammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for high quality works on albums in the urban contemporary subgenre within the R&B field. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Recording Academy 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". [1]

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This category was one of the three newly created categories for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards as Best Urban Contemporary Album. [2] In June 2020, the Recording Academy announced a renaming and redefining of the category. [3] Its new name was Best Progressive R&B Album, with immediate effect, "to appropriately categorize and describe this subgenre. This change includes a more accurate definition to describe the merit or characteristics of music compositions or performances themselves within the genre of R&B." [4] Adding to this, the description of this category is now as follows: "[t]his category is intended to highlight albums that include the more progressive elements of R&B and may include samples and elements of hip-hop, rap, dance, and electronic music. It may also incorporate production elements found in pop, euro-pop, country, rock, folk, and alternative." [4]

According to Recording Academy president Harvey Mason Jr. in the same press release, these changes reflected "the current state of the music industry and how it's evolved over the past 12 months." In the weeks leading up to this decision, the label "urban" to indicate music made by African American musicians, songwriters and producers had come under fire. [5]

The award goes to the artist, producer and engineer/mixer, provided they are credited with more than 50% of playing time on the album. A producer and engineer with less than 50% of playing time, as well as the mastering engineer, can apply for a "Winners Certificate". [6]

Controversies

Many African American musicians have disputed the use of the term "urban contemporary", seen as a "catchall for music created by Black artists, regardless of genre". [7] In a backstage interview given after his first Grammy win (for Best Rap Album), artist Tyler, the Creator stated that "[i]t sucks that whenever we — and I mean guys that look like me — do anything that's genre-bending or that's anything, they always put it in a rap or urban category", adding that "I don't like that 'urban' word — it's just a politically correct way to say the n-word to me". [8]

Recipients

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Frank Ocean was the first recipient in 2013
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The Weeknd is the first artist to win this award twice, in 2016 and 2018
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Beyoncé is the first female artist to win this award twice, in 2017 and 2019
Year [I] Performing artist(s)WorkNomineesRef.
2013 Frank Ocean Channel Orange [9]
[10]
2014 Rihanna Unapologetic [11]
[10]
2015 Pharrell Williams
  • Pharrell Williams, producer; Andrew Coleman, Mick Guzauski and Mike Larson, engineers/mixers
 Girl [12]
[10]
2016 The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness [13]
[10]
2017 Beyoncé Lemonade [14]
[10]
2018 The Weeknd Starboy [15]
[10]
2019 The Carters Everything Is Love [16]
[10]
2020 Lizzo Cuz I Love You (Deluxe) [17]
[10]
2021 Thundercat It Is What It Is [18]
2022 Lucky Daye Table for Two [19]
2023 Steve Lacy
  • Steve Lacy, producer; Neal H Pogue and Karl Wingate, engineers/mixers
 Gemini Rights
[20]
2024 SZA SOS [21]
2025 TBATBA [22]

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

Artists with multiple wins

2 wins

Artists with multiple nominations

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