It goes without saying that Drake and Beyonce served as the reigning King and Queen of the charts this year
Hence, it’s fitting that the ‘Mine’ collaborators lead the pack of talent in the nominations for the 2016 Soul Train Awards.
Drizzy, much like his AMA placings, stands tallest with 11 honors, while Bey blazes the scene with 8.
Both have achieved gargantuan success with their ‘Views’ and ‘Lemonade’ projects respectively.
The awards are set to be handed out on November 6th at Las Vegas’ Orleans Arena, with the ceremony itself airing on BET on November 27th.
Peep the full list of nominees after the jump…
Best New Artist
ANDERSON .PAAK
ANDRA DAY
BRYSON TILLER
CHANCE THE RAPPER
RO JAMES
TORY LANEZ
Best R&B/Soul Male Artist
ANTHONY HAMILTON
BRYSON TILLER
MAXWELL
THE WEEKND
USHER
Centric Certified Award
AFTER 7
ANDERSON .PAAK
BILAL
LALAH HATHAWAY
MUSIQ SOULCHILD
Video of the Year
BEYONCÉ – FORMATION
BEYONCÉ – SORRY
DRAKE – HOTLINE BLING
KANYE WEST – FADE
RIHANNA FT. DRAKE – WORK
Best Gospel/ Inspirational Song
DONNIE MCCLURKIN – I NEED YOU
HEZEKIAH WALKER – BETTER
KIRK FRANKLIN – 123 VICTORY
TAMELA MANN – GOD PROVIDES
TRAVIS GREENE – MADE A WAY
Album/Mixtape of the Year
BEYONCÉ – LEMONADE
BRYSON TILLER – T R A P S O U L
DJ KHALED – MAJOR KEY
DRAKE – VIEWS
KANYE WEST – THE LIFE OF PABLO
RIHANNA – ANTI
Rhythm & Bars Award (Formerly Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year)
CHANCE THE RAPPER FT. LIL WAYNE & 2 CHAINZ – NO PROBLEM
DJ KHALED FT. DRAKE – FOR FREE
DRAKE – CONTROLLA
DRAKE FT. WIZKID & KYLA – ONE DANCE
FAT JOE & REMY MA FT. FRENCH MONTANA & INFARED – ALL THE WAY UP
Best R&B/Soul Female Artist
ALICIA KEYS
BEYONCÉ
FANTASIA
JILL SCOTT
RIHANNA
Song of the Year
ADELE – HELLO
BEYONCÉ – FORMATION
BRYSON TILLER – DON’T
DRAKE – CONTROLLA
RIHANNA FT. DRAKE – WORK
The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award
HELLO – WRITTEN BY: ADELE LAURIE BLUE ADKINS, GREGORY ALLEN KURSTIN (ADELE)
RISE UP – WRITTEN BY: ANDRA DAY, JENNIFER DECILVEO (ANDRA DAY)
FORMATION – WRITTEN BY: MICHAEL L. WILLIAMS II, BEYONCÉ KNOWLES, KHALIF BROWN, AAQUIL BROWN, ASHETON HOGAN, (BEYONCÉ)
DON’T – WRITTEN BY: JOHNTÁ M. AUSTIN, MARIAH CAREY, BRYAN-MICHAEL COX, JERMAINE DUPRI, TAVORIS JAVON HOLLINS, ISOM BRANDON STEWART, BRYSON DEJUAN TILLER (BRYSON TILLER)
NEEDED ME – WRITTEN BY: NICHOLAS VALENTINO AUDINO, RACHEL DERRUS, ADAM KING FEENEY, ROBYN R. FENTY, BRITTANY TALIA HAZZARD, CHARLES HINSHAW JR., LEWIS BERESFORD HUGHES, DIJON ISAIAH MCFARLANE, KHALED ROHAIM, TE WHITI TE RANGITEPAIA MATAA WARBICK (RIHANNA)
Best Dance Performance
BEYONCÉ – FORMATION
DRAKE – HOTLINE BLING
KANYE WEST (DANCE PERFORMANCE FT. TEYANA TAYLOR) – FADE
RIHANNA FT. DRAKE – WORK
USHER FT. YOUNG THUG – NO LIMIT
Best Collaboration
BEYONCÉ FT. KENDRICK LAMAR – FREEDOM
CHANCE THE RAPPER FT. LIL WAYNE & 2 CHAINZ – NO PROBLEM
DJ KHALED FT. DRAKE – FOR FREE
FAT JOE & REMY MA FT. FRENCH MONTANA & INFARED – ALL THE WAY UP
RIHANNA FT. DRAKE – WORK
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They won’t be there.
Beyonce should be at EVERY black award show this year.
I know babe but she won’t. She MIGHT but I doubt it.
@Donzou
With the exception of Chris Brown, Beyonce has performed at more black award shows than anybody out right now. Plus, she perfromed at the BET Awards. So she might show up. Either way, Beyonce is not the only black artist who should support BET and Soul Train. ALL of them should.
Tyler don’t come checking me I know the receipts. Like I said it shouldn’t be a MAYBE she will be there. She should be at every single one of them every year, flat out especially if they are nominating her.
LMAO WHY SHOULD SHE BE THERE? ITS NOT LIKE THAT BUM BRINGS IN VIEWERS, SHE CAN’T EVEN BRING IN VIEWERS FOR HER OWN CRAP LMAO.
@Donzou
Calm tf down you sensitive to the curb ass N****. Ain’t nobody trying to check you.
@Tyler I just had to let you know.
You didn’t let me know s***.
It is safe to say that Beyonce is totally domimating award season this year.
Yep. Next is the Grammy’s 🙂
LOL THEN WHY DID THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS IGNORE HER ASS? LMAO
She was only ignored her on the singles front. She’s nominated in everything else. Sit cho troll ass somewhere.
I had no idea “Needed Me” had that many songwriters
Lol @having rihanna under “best female r&b/soul artist”
That’s like putting justin bieber under best male r&b artist, you can’t just put someone in a genre that they’re simply not!
“and best r&b album by a female goes to, britney spears!”
Rihanna = 7 nominations!
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1) LMFAO. Drake and “Rihanna” were the reigning King and Queens of the charts this year but of course this remedial site would dare say otherwise.
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2) I wonder if any of them will show up. They better! (I will drag Rih. if she doesn’t).
Drake had 11, so he leads the nominations. Beyonce has 1 more nomination then Rihanna, so why didn’t Sam put her name up there? Hating Ass!!
And she’s nominated for every award Beyonce was nominated for. Beyonce was just nominated twice in the video category
Drake snatching everyone’s edges
Yup and he’s rubbing Fads face in feces as I type! ?
LOL AND PISSSING IN KOOLAID AS WE ALL TYPE LMAO.
Didn’t views steal all Lemonades shine? She’s drinking his p*** as we speak.
WTF. this isn’t soul. Soul Train really screwed up this year.
a black awards show…..let’s just call it The Beyonce’s… no shade
LOL YEAH RIGHT, SHE DIDN’T START BEING BLACK UNTIL HER SALES STARTED DECLINING LMAO
you sound dumb as f***, she performed formation at the super bowl, way before the album and white people didn’t like it, so of course her sales will decline jackass!! have several seats /_ /_ /_ and drink a glass of stfu
Is there a sample in Needed Me?
Congrats Bey!!! Hope she cleans house and performs!!!
LMAO @Needed Streams/Vocals having so many writer’s yet the Slavi come for Bey’s song writing credits ?????????
NeededANumber1Hit
Yes we know Fad needs a #1, she’s irrelevant. It would be the only thing to save the era. But sadly she won’t EVER be seeing another #1. ?
Her last Number 1 was in 2011 (this decade) Beys last was in 2008 (almost 10 years ago).
Lol “needed streams”
LOL BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE WROTE FLOPMATION AND IT STILL BOMBED THO? LMAO
Lmao where did it bomb? It was free for almost 3 full month’s and debuted as a Top 10 hit, has the BIGGEST debut sales by a female artists this year, it also has a GOLD certification and will inevitably become platinum. It’s been picking up awards all year long left and right oh and I see you can’t count. It took 5 writer’s.
LMAO SIT BUG, GAGA WILL SEE A #1 HIT BEFORE THAT S**** JAY Z MARRIED THO LMAO #NONUMBERONEHITINADECADE #THESTRUGGLEFORAHITISNOTAGAME LMAO
Lying is a sin! Fad will never see another number 1! Single sales are crap now, radio pays her absolute dust and she isn’t even a thought in the streaming community LMFAOOO!!!
LOL BUT PERFECT ILLUSION OUTPEAKED EVERY SINGLE THAT FLOPPED OFF OF KOOLAID THO LMAO. AND JESUS WILL COME BACK BEFORE THAT BASIC BYTCH U WORSHIP HAS ANOTHER #1 HIT LOL. BTW, WHAT NUMBER DID HOLD UP FLOP AT THIS WEEK? LMAO
@LOL bítch Formation, Sorry, Hold Up, and 6 inch all outpeaked and performed Perfect Delusion. Tf are you talking about?
Needed me has a sample like Bryson tillers don’t so all the writers on the original were also credited stupid
Doesn’t negate the fact that on Lemonade she has about 5 songs that sample other’s yet the Slavi still talk Shít!
I looked and Need streams doesn’t even have a sample! ??? it just took 1 billion writers to write that song. The only songs credited for samples on Anti is Work, Same Ol Mistakes, Never Ending, Higher and Goodnight Gothem. ????
Uhhh… #NoLimit
ALL I EVER SEE IS BEYONCE, RIHANNA, ALICIA JENNIFER HUDSON, JAYZ & Drake, Janelle monae, and Nicki minaj… Let’s face it all the other r&b acts are only used for tributes… No award show never gives the following artist a platform to perform their material, Fantasia, chrisette michelle, k michelle, jazmine Sullivan,Luke James, Kelly Rowland, ciara turese,..how can we support artist with good Rb soul if they are not being put out there… Why can’t Beyonce bring out an artist …the award shows back in the day were so different.. Everyone showed each other love… Let’s face it Rb is dead… Rihanna is not an Rb star she is pop… AMA’s billboard, soul train nor the grammus will recognize the real Rb stars…. And they won’t do nothing until we complain
switch Fantasia and Jennifer Hudson
LMAO DEATH @ DRAKE AND THE S**** BEING KING & QUEEN OF THE CHARTS LMAO.
EVERYONE KNOWS 2016 WAS OWNED BY DRAKE AND RIHANNA, SO KEEP THE DELUSIONS COMING INSECTS LMAO…
Girl u pressed! Bey has been multi nominated & won multiple awards at EVERY award show. The American Music Awards, Soul Train Awards, & Grammys will be no different. I would mad too if my fav was always coming up short handed every award show!
#Staymad ???
She won’t attend… just send a video BEY
LMAO DOESN’T CHANGE THE FACT THAT 2016 WAS DRAKE AND RIH’S YEAR, BOTH BREAKING RECORDS ON A WEEKLY BASIS ALL YEAR LONG. SO KEEP CLINGING TO YOUR BUG QUEEN’S PURCHASED AWARDS LMAO
Breaking lowest first week sales and streaming records aren’t huge accomplishments lmao. Try grossing 250 million with 40 something dates. Rih, or Gagz will never!!
This is where I have a problem with the A- list r&b acts
Beyonce is not gonna show… hasn’t in this decade
Drake is not gonna show….
They really don’t understand how impportant it is to show up and show out at a black awards show.
King and Queen of the year = Drake and Rihanna.
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Beyonce hasn’t had a hit in a decade, tragic.
But her FORMATION TOUR with 49 sold out dates grossed over 250 million dollars..THAT SOUND LIKE A HIT TO ME. MEANWHILE THE CANTi tour is well…..NVM
Not seeing flopation, floppy or flop down on the charts anywhere. Go buy those trashy songs
Take ur advice and go buy CANTi tour tickets..cause there are still plenty available sis. LMAO
Still not seeing floptation, sloppy or flop down on the charts
whether she has a hit or not she has power. and if you put her name in an award show you will get people to watch to see if she shows up !
LOL THEN WHY DID THE MTV AWARDS HAVE THEIR LOWEST RATINGS IN YEARS LAST MONTH? LMAO THAT BYTCH CAN’T EVEN PULL IN HER OWN VIEWERS, THESE SHOWS DON’T BOOK HER ASSS FOR RATINGS LMAO.
People didn’t even know she was performing until minutes before it started. Frih and Brittle-knee were the promoted artists nd just like 2012, they didn’t bring in s***. In fact Bey’s performance was the most viewed and popular.
Drake Beyonce and Rih are soul now???? This is a joke, what about JAsmine Sullivan? What about Emeli or Adele? What about Toni and Baby face? Like foreal?
Exactly, wtf. Where’s Brian McKnight, Johnny Gill, Frank Ocean, Jaheim, Tank, Joe, ECT
Honestly, these nominations are a joke and probably only wanted for ratings. It’s a slap to the face to the many artists who kill this genre of music. I will be boycotting this if any of these pop girls win.
Love me some Drake , Rih and Bey, but lets keep it real if you say drake and beyonce names you might get people to watch if you say JAzmin Sullivan not many people will care. they know where they can get ratings. now i will say beyonce has some soulful songs on lemonade.
They won’t show up.
Okay now ! Lets see if they show up, you know these award shows love using people names for ratings !
doubt it!
I will be perched as I am every year. Soul Train Awards used to be theeeeee premiere black awards show.
what charts did Beyoncé nominate? lololol not Hot 100 nor BB200
SALES charts. You know she has the best- SELLING album released this year.
If rihanna was white I can tell you for a fact that she would not be nominated for a “best female r&b/soul artist” award.
Tamar was right, this is a bunch of bull!
I’m so sick of all of these artists, rihanna, beyonce, dj khaled, kanye, bryson, and even Drake who put out one of the biggest letdown albums of the year.
How is this any different than the BET awards, or the bet hip hop awards, if this didn’t say “Soul Train” I’d have thought it was the bet hip hop awards or something.
Work being nominated in a Soul show for song of the year…i didn’t know work or formation were soul song …lmao
I’m pretty sure Beyoncé will show up with Jay z since she is in a “black proud era” and maybe perform..
Rihanna ….maybe she will she needs some promotions to help her sales.
But Drake and Adele they won’t show up.
Funny,and irrelevant????
This isn’t the AMA’s..
Honeys he isnt touring anymore, so its best if she atleast did this red carpet appearance. Atleast
Lmfao @Drake getting nominated for Best Dance Performance.
Rihanna is a mix of genres. Drake is a rap/Hiphop/ artist. Beyonce is a Contemporary R&b singer. It isn’t necessarily traditional r&b music all the way through. But it’s still apart of the genre.
Beyonce will probably show up because it would be politically correct..
Test
So no one caught the shade of them changing the “Hip Hop” award to “Rhythmic & Bars? (R&B)”……
Nice