Big Win For Beyoncé at The 2022 Soul Train Awards

The Soul Train Awards, which was recently aired on BET and BET Her, had Beyoncé as the top winner. With ‘Renaissance’, she won album of the year for the fourth time. With ‘Break My Soul,’ she won song of the year for the third time and with Ronald Isley & The Isley Brothers’ ‘Make Me Say It Again, Girl,’ she won best collaboration.

A female solo artist has now won album of the year five years in a row. Before Bey won, H.E.R.’s ‘H.E.R.’, Lizzo’s ‘Cuz I Love You’, Summer Walker’s ‘Over It’ and Jazmine Sullivan’s ‘Heaux Tales’ also took home awards.

However, Beyoncé was absent when the event was taped earlier this month at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. The BET Awards are mostly a show about tributes and performances, not awards. Over the course of the two-hour show, just two competitive categories were presented.

Deon Cole, an actor and comedian, served as the host of the 2022 Soul Train Awards, which also included victories for Lizzo, Mary J. Blige and Muni Long. ‘About Damn Time’ by Lizzo received the award for best dance performance. Blige won the Certified Soul title (formerly known as the Centric Award). For ‘Hrs & Hrs,’ Long received the Ashford & Simpson Songwriter Award. At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Beyoncé and three of these musicians, were nominated in Big Four categories.

For the second time in three years, Chris Brown won the award for best R&B/soul male performer. Last year, Giveon was the recipient.

With ‘Smokin’ Out the Window,’ Silk Sonic won video of the year for the second time in a row. The award went to the retro-soul pair last year for their song ‘Leave the Door Open.’ The duo’s Bruno Mars won in that same category for ‘Finesse’ (remix featuring Cardi B, 2018) and ’24K Magic’ .

Sikha Sohan