Best Progressive R&B Album Grammy Award Winners
Grammy Awards decided to change their category name from ‘Best Urban Contemporary Album’ to ‘Best Progressive R&B Album’ recently. This seems like a huge contribution in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Hence, we decided to show you the winners of this category over few years.
1. Frank Ocean won the Best Progressive R&B Album award for his ‘Channel Orange’ album in 2013. Chris Brown and Miguel were also nominated for ‘Fortune’ and ‘Kaleidoscope Dream’. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
2. Rihanna won the award for ‘Unapologetic’ album. Artists like Tamar, Fantasia, Salaam Remi and Mack Wilds were nominated in the category in 2014. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
3. Pharrell Williams received the award for his ‘Girl’ album in 2015. He even beat Beyonce’s ‘Beyonce’ album. (Photo by Jeff Vespa/WireImage)
4. In 2016, The Weeknd grabbed the award for ‘Beauty Behind the Madness’. The Internet, Kehlani, Lianna La Havas and Miguel were also nominated. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
5. Beyonce won the Best Progressive R&B Album award for her ‘Lemonade’ album while he beat Gallant, King, Anderson Paak and Rihanna as well in 2017. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)
6. The Weeknd received another award for this category for his ‘Starboy’ in 2018. 6Lack, Childish Gambino, Khalid and SZA were nominated for the same. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria’s Secret)
7. Jay z and Beyonce come together as The Carters and take away this award for ‘Everything Is Love’ in 2019. Other artists like Miguel, Chloe x Halle, Chris Dace and the Drumheads and Meshell Ndegeocello were nominated. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Roc Nation )
8. Lizzo in 2020 won the award for ‘Cus I Love You (Deluxe)’ album. He stole the award from Steve Lacy, Georgio Anne Muldrow, Nao and Jessi Reyez. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
By : Aatira Kakroo
