With awards season soon to be in full swing, the 2011 Soul Train Awards is on its way and the latest to unveil their list of nominations. While performers expect to be confirmed in coming weeks, the Cedric the Entertainer-hosted ceremony is set to be held at Atlanta’s FoxTheater on November 17, 2011 but broadcast on Centric and parent channel BET on November 27.
And, with Chris Brown leading the pack with 5 nominations, Beyonce with 4 (…), and Kelly Rowland, Adele, and Marsha Ambrosius landing 3 nods each, the show is already shaping up to be a must see!
Get familiar with the full list of nominations below…
2011 Soul Train Awards Nominees
Best New Artist
- Bruno Mars
- Marsha Ambrosius
- Miguel
- Frank Ocean
Centric Award
- Ledisi
- Raphael Saddiq
- Bilal
- Anthony David
- Aloe Blacc
Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year
- Moment for Life-Nicki Minaj
- All of the Lights-Kanye West
- Look at Me Now-Chris Brown feat. Busta Rhymes and Lil’ Wayne
- Out of My Head-Lupe Fiasco
- Otis-Jay Z/Kanye West
Best Female R&B/Soul Artist
- Kelly Rowland
- Beyonce
- Marsha Ambrosius
- Jennifer Hudson
- Jill Scott
Best Male R&B/Soul Artist
- Trey Songz
- Chris Brown
- R. Kelly
- Miguel
- Cee Lo Green
- Eric Benet
Album of the Year
- 21-Adele
- F.A.M.E.- Chris Brown
- 4-Beyonce
- Passion Pain & Pleasure-Trey Songz
- Light of the Sun-Jill Scott
- Watch The Throne-Jay Z/Kanye West
Song of the Year
- Motivation-Kelly Rowland feat. Lil’ Wayne
- Sure Thing-Miguel
- Rolling in the Deep-Adele
- She Ain’t You-Chris Brown
- All of the Lights- Kanye West
- So In Love-Jill Scott feat. Anthony Hamilton
Best Dance Performance
- Motivation-Kelly Rowland
- Only Girl in the World//What’s My Name-Rihanna
- Run The World-Beyonce
- She Ain’t You-Chris Brown
- Walking-Mary Mary
- Pretty Girl Rock-Keri Hilson
Best Gospel Performance
- I Smile-Kirk Franklin
- Walking-Mary Mary
- Heaven Hear My Heart-Trin-I-Tee 5:7
- I Believe-James Fortune feat. Shawn McLemore
- More-Cece Winans
Best Caribbean Performance
- Man Down-Rihanna
- Summer Time-Vybz Kartel
- Wotless-Kes The Band
- Bend Over-Machel Montano
- Delilah-Movado
Record of the Year (The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award)
- Rolling in the Deep-Adele (Writers: Adele, Paul Epworth)
- Far Away-Marsha Ambrosius (Writers: Marsha Ambrosius, Sterling Simms)
- Best Thing I Never Had-Beyonce (Writers: Antonio Dixon; Kenneth Edmonds; Larry Griffin, Jr.; Beyonce Knowles; Caleb McCampbell; Patrick Smith; Shea Taylor)
- Good Man-Raphael Saddiq (Writers: Raphael Saadiq, Taura Stinson)
- Hold My Hand (Duet with Akon)-Michael Jackson (Writers: Aliaune Thiam (Akon), Giorgio Tuinfort, Claude Kelly)
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As this year’s honorees Earth, Wind, and Fire and Empress of Soul Gladys Knight will be tributed by Jill Scott, Miguel, Lloyd, Robin Thicke, Melanie Fiona, and more, fans should be in for a good show.
Mary J. Blige for the win.
Best New Artist – Bruno Mars
Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year – Look at Me Now
Best Female R&B/Soul Artist – Beyonce
Best Male R&B/Soul Artist – Chris Brown
Album of the Year – 21 by Adele
Song of the Year – Rolling in the Deep
Best Dance Performance – Run the World (Girls)
Record of the Year – Rolling in the Deep
cool
Best New Artist – MIGUEL
Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year – MOMENT 4 LIFE
Best Female R&B/Soul Artist – KELLY ROWLAND (beyonce you have your grammys waiting for you at home, so let kelly have this one)
Best Male R&B/Soul Artist – MIGUEL
Album of the Year – 21
Song of the Year – MOTIVATION
Best Dance Performance – RUN THE WORLD (hands down)
Best Caribbean Performance – MAN DOWN (underrated epic song)
Record of the Year (The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award) – BEST THING I NEVER HAD (beyonce didnt write s*** so y she on the credz ? )
^^^ MY PICKS ^^
finally man down is getting the attention it deserves.
DEAD at Keri Hilson not getting nominated for Best Female R&B/Soul Artist! She didn’t even get nominated for an American Music Award & People’s Choice Award LOL! Kelly Rowland has taken over her career!
Song of the Year – MOTIVATION
CH…. NO!
Ya’ll know Adele will win Song of the Year since it was number one worldwide!!!!
SOUL Train Awards?? LMAOOOOOO.
BUT I guess this is a milestone for a LOCAL artist like Christopher 😕
Army’s Noms ! 😉
Best New Artist
Bruno Mars Maybe !
Miguel MAYBE !
Frank Ocean FRANK ! 😉
Centric Award
Who CARES About This AWARD ! ?
Ledisi
Raphael Saddiq
Bilal
Anthony David
Aloe Blacc
Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year
Moment for Life-Nicki Minaj REALLY ???? O o p s !
All of the Lights-Kanye West YES ! 🙂
Look at Me Now-Chris Brown feat. Busta Rhymes and Lil’ Wayne This ! 🙂 But Minus Lil Gremlin ! 🙁
Out of My Head-Lupe Fiasco Hmmmmm MAYBE !
Best Female R&B/Soul Artist
Kelly Rowland 🙂
Beyonce Queen Bey 🙂
Jenifer Hudson yes JENI ! 😉
Best Male R&B/Soul Artist
Trey Songz With All That Billy Goat Singing ??? O o p s ! 🙁
Chris Brown I Mean I Guess ! 😉
R. Kelly Kelly Is KING ! You Deal ! 😉
Miguel I Mean I Guess !
Album of the Year
21-Adele Of Course DELE ! 😉
F.A.M.E.- Chris Brown It Did FLOP But It Was On POINT ! 🙂
4-Beyonce It Did FLOP But It Was On POINT ! 🙂
Passion Pain & Pleasure-Trey Songz Trey Is Cute & All But Damn His Single (Bottoms Up) Went 2X Plat & His Album Went GOLD ! #FAIL !
Watch The Throne-Jay Z/Kanye West
Song of the Year
Motivation-Kelly Rowland feat. Lil’ Wayne Yes This Song Was FIREEEE ! Minus Lil Gremlin ! 😉
Sure Thing-Miguel This Did Get A LOT Of Air Play MAYBE !
Rolling in the Deep-Adele Queen Adele Slaying ! 😉
All of the Lights- Kanye West Yes Yeezy ! 😉
Best Dance Performance
Only Girl in the World//What’s My Name-Rihanna REALLY ??? ;(
Run The World-Beyonce YES Queen bey SLAYED ! 😉
She Ain’t You-Chris Brown Hmmm MAYBE !
Best Gospel Performance
I Smile-Kirk Franklin 🙂
Walking-Mary Mary 😉
Heaven Hear My Heart-Trin-I-Tee 5:7 Maybe
Best Caribbean Performance
Man Down-Rihanna 😉
Summer Time-Vybz Kartel Maybe
Record of the Year (The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award)
Rolling in the Deep-Adele (Writers: Adele, Paul Epworth) 🙂
Best Thing I Never Had-Beyonce (Writers: Antonio Dixon; Kenneth Edmonds; Larry Griffin, Jr.; Beyonce Knowles; Caleb McCampbell; Patrick Smith; Shea Taylor) 😉
Finally…interesting nominations.I’m SOOO tired of seeing the likes of Katy Perry, Lady GaGa and Lil Wayne nominated for EVERYTHING!So glad that Jill Scott (she slayed at the BET awards), Melanie Fiona and Robin Thicke will perform.And some of the unexpected nominees were a very pleasant surprise.
That said, the “record of the year” category is a mess.Most of those songs did not DEFINE the year.
Anyway… 😎
Best New Artist-Bruno Mars
Centric Award-Ledisi
Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year-Look at Me Now-Chris Brown feat. Busta Rhymes and Lil’ Wayne
Best Female R&B/Soul Artist-Kelly Rowland
Best Male R&B/Soul Artist-Trey Songz
Album of the Year-21-Adele
Song of the Year
Motivation-Kelly Rowland feat. Lil’ Wayne
Rolling in the Deep-Adele
Best Dance Performance-Only Girl in the World//What’s My Name-Rihanna
Best Gospel Performance-I Smile-Kirk Franklin
Best Caribbean Performance-Man Down-Rihanna
Record of the Year (The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award)-Rolling in the Deep-Adele (Writers: Adele, Paul Epworth)
im so happy for queen kelly rowland..she is simply the best.i love you honey
EXCELLENT NOMINIES….
@ASAP (As Sincere As Possible)
Honey..this is the Soul Train Awards for R&B/Soul artists only! This is not for white pop trash artists like Gaga & Katy Perry!
Didn’t Bruno Mars win in this category last year?
MY PICKS:
Best New Artist
•Bruno Mars
•Miguel
Centric Award
•Ledis (this is a singing chick 🙂 )
Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year
•Look at Me Now-Chris Brown feat. Busta Rhymes and Lil’ Wayne
Best Female R&B/Soul Artist
•Kelly Rowland
•Beyonce
•Jill Scott
Best Male R&B/Soul Artist
•Chris Brown (of course I want Breezy to take it but wouldn’t be made if Kelz won)
•R. Kelly
Album of the Year
•21-Adele
•F.A.M.E.- Chris Brown (Breezy should take this one, love Adele as well)
Song of the Year
•She Ain’t You-Chris Brown
Best Dance Performance
•She Ain’t You-Chris Brown
•Pretty Girl Rock-Keri Hilson (this was too cute but I want Breezy to win)
Record of the Year (The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award)
•Rolling in the Deep-Adele (Writers: Adele, Paul Epworth))
Somebody mentioned J. Cole! I think his CD dropped too late to be included in the nominations this go around.
Wait, how did Rihanna get two songs nominated and for BEST DANCE PERFORMANCE AT THAT? O__0 *serious side-eye* If that’s the case they should have also nominated Yeah 3X! ummmm….
chris been getting nominated for big shows all year grammies vmas amas he has been performing in big shows all year too just about a year ago they want really f****** with him
I’m so happy for chris…
I am not trying to throw shade, but I haven’t never heard Adele on the urban station in my city. Actually I haven’t never seen her on the Urban Billboard charts, so why is she nominated.
LMAO
BET Centric ?????????????
The Soultrain Awards done fell off.
I love how people are saying these awards shows don’t mean s***, well clearly they mean enough to get your attention and felt compelled to comment! Don’t act like you don’t see Adele, Beyonce’s and Riyodel’s names up there! Stupid hypocritical b******!
Anywho, I’m glad to see CB in the lead and I’m sure he will take home at least a couple, possibly Best Male R&b, Best Dance Song & Best Hip Hop song. ‘LAMN’ really slayed this year, it totally shocked the hell out of me!
I hope Kelly takes some home as well. She has worked hard this year and even though her sales don’t reflect it would be nice to see her rewarded for her work. I’m sure Bey will win something cause she tends to always win an award at every Award Show she attends. *shrugs*
I hope Miguel wins Best New Artist, but they might give that to Marsha Ambrocious, who I don’t really think is ‘new’ per se but I guess since this is her first solo album she classifies as new. They both would deserve it but I’m pulling for Miguel cause he is amazing live!
Overall I’m not too impressed about the Soul Train Awards, I can honestly say I’ve never watched not one broadcasting before. Good luck to all the nominees though. *shrugs*
Best New Artist – Bruno Mars
Centric Award- Raphael Saddiq
Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year – Look at Me Now
Best Female R&B/Soul Artist – Beyonce
Best Male R&B/Soul Artist – Chris Brown
Album of the Year – 21
Song of the Year – Rolling in the Deep
Best Dance Performance – Run the World (Girls) —#HANDSDOWN
Record of the Year – Rolling in the Deep
Best Gospel Performance– More-Cece Winans
Best Caribbean Performance–Man Down-Rihanna
Record of the Year – Rolling in the Deep-Adele
Best Female Artist: Should win..Kelly Rowland….Will win: Beyonce………………Best Male Artist: Should win..Chris Brown…Will Win: Chris Brown………..Best New Artist: Should win..Miguel..Will win: Bruno Mars………….Best Hip Hop Song: Should win..Otis by Jay Z and Kanye West..Will Win: All Of The Lights by Kanye West……………..Record of The Year: Should Win: Rolling In The Deep by Adele..Will Win: Best Thing I Never Had by Beyonce……………….Song of The Year: Should win: Rolling In The Deep by Adele..Will win: Motivation by Kelly Rowland……………….Centric Award: Should win: Ledsi..Will win: Ledsi…………………..Best Dance: Should win..RTWG by Beyonce..Will Win: RTWG by Beyonce……………………………Best Gospel: Will win..I Smile by Kirk Franklin
zania
October 21, 2011 at 7:21 pm
I am not trying to throw shade, but I haven’t never heard Adele on the urban station in my city. Actually I haven’t never seen her on the Urban Billboard charts, so why is she nominated
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Same here they do NOT play any of her songs on Urban stations where I live
Ha!!!!!!! Some people really have nerve to say that the Soul Train Awards fell off. I bet if your fav would have been nob. for 5 awards then the show would be the bomb. GTFOH silly rabbit tricks are for kids.
ITS GOOD TO SEE KELLY IS BEEN RECOGNIZE BY ALL THESE DIFF AWARDS COMP. AMA PCA etc..
I remember the time when Soul Train Awards were THE SH!T… well, hopefully Adele will show up and bring some relevance to the show. Breezy is my dude but it’s crystal clear Soul Train showrunners want them some ratings. It’s all good though.
MY PREDICTIONS:
Best New Artist: Miguel
Centric Award : Raphael Saddiq
Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year : I root for All of the Lights-Kanye West (My Wish) but I guess the winner will be Look at Me Now-Chris Brown feat. Busta Rhymes and Lil’ Wayne
Best Female R&B/Soul Artist: Beyonce (Stay mad, b!tches)
Best Male R&B/Soul Artist : R. Kelly
Album of the Year : 21-Adele
Song of the Year : Rolling in the Deep-Adele
Best Dance Performance : Run The World-Beyonce
Best Gospel Performance : I Smile-Kirk Franklin
Best Caribbean Performance: Man Down-Rihanna (Please give the award to Shontelle who wrote the song because the singing was NOT the business AT ALL)
Record of the Year (The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award) : Rolling in the Deep-Adele (Writers: Adele, Paul Epworth)
Marsha Ambrosius!
nice.
I like MALIBU Barbie’s choices! 😉
@Army Of Queen A (Aaliyah) & Queen Bee (Lil Kim) >>>>>>>> Your Fave !
You got some damn nerve calling Beyonce & Chris Brown and flops when your plastic filled fave hasn’t even released an album in years! She is too busy singing songs by other artist on party busses and releasing bootleg mixtapes on Pay Pal claiming it sold over a million downloads! #LIES!!
F.A.M.E. debuted at No. 1 and is currently the second Best selling r&b album after Beyonce! Both of their albums debuted at No. 1 and are currently in the Top Ten Best Selling albums this year according to Billboard! BOTH of them have been performing at Awards shows and sold out concerts!
Meanwhile where is YOUR fave?! What is she doing besides being salty that Nicki stole her shine?! When is she gonna release an album?! How many awards has she been nominated for recently?! If Bey & Chris are flops, when they actually have music on the charts, then what in the actual f*** is Lil Plastic surgery a.k.a Bitter Kim?!?! B**** boo!
Girl sit your bitter ass down some where and stop hating on artist who actually have successful careers!
“Chris Brown ‘Runs’ Pack”….well he runs everything espically R&B and Urban in case you didn’t know lol.
Chris will take home 2-3 of his 5 nominations atleast. I more concerned about him winning his AMAs this year though and maybe getting some Grammy nominations.
Why did this Lil Kim stan just say F.A.M.E flopped but her fave sells albums or mixtapes (or whatever the f*** she does) on Paypal. Lmao…lets not even go there sweetheart.
HOW THE F*** IS KELLY ROWLAND GETTING NOMINATED OVER KERI HILSON WHEN KELLY ALBUM IS STILL @ 181,186 COPIES AT LEAST KERI DID 300K…
Who the f*** is Tyler and how many albums did you sell. Get outta Kellys ass!
Adele,Beyonce,Chris,Kelly,Ledisi,Jill,Marsha deserve awards. Oh and Miguel and Marsha deserve best new artist. They both have great r&b albums.
@KILLING ME SOFTLY You obviously didn’t comprehend my comment, did you?HONEY, this is exactly why I like those nominations, because they’re not for popstars.
Best New Artist
Marsha Ambrosius
Centric Award
Ledisi
Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year
Otis-Jay Z/Kanye West
Best Female R&B/Soul Artist
Beyonce
Best Male R&B/Soul Artist
Miguel
Album of the Year
4-Beyonce
Song of the Year
Rolling in the Deep-Adele
Best Dance Performance
Motivation-Kelly Rowland
Best Gospel Performance
I Smile-Kirk Franklin
Best Caribbean Performance
Man Down-Rihanna
Record of the Year (The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award)
Far Away-Marsha Ambrosius (Writers: Marsha Ambrosius, Sterling Simms)
@VA STAND UP!!!
You didn’t see it last year when R. Kelly burned the stage down followed by Ronald Isley of the Isley Brother who along with Anita Baker were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award? Now shame on you *Breezy voice* 🙂
Really, last year was the 1st time I’ve watched the STMA since its return a few years back. I will be watching this year however…..GOOO CHRIS! 🙂
@noodles
I don’t know how I feel about the AMAs after they “allegedly” pulled that fast one last year and gave Chris’ award to Usher! Since Usher and his mentee are scheduled to perform, I’m not holding much hope for a different outcome alhough I continue to vote and ENCOURAGE ALL #TEAMBREEZY to vote for Chris to win.
I wonder when the Billboard Music Awards and Grammy nominations are coming out? Didn’t I hear something about the People’s Choice Awards nominees? Was there a post that I missed? When did they come out?
@MISHKA
October 21, 2011 at 7:55 pm
I Breezy is my dude but it’s crystal clear Soul Train showrunners want them some ratings. It’s all good though.
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THIS! 🙂
hey
it nice to see kelly rowland get her shine on 4 noms down with a possible 5th – i know shes gonna take home something! wwwork!
SOME OF YALL ARE DELUSIONAL IF YALL THINK KELLY IS ACTUALLY GONE WALK WITH AN AWARD!!!!!!LOLLMAOOOOOOOO
AND @LYRIC
KELLY HAS 3 NOMS…..CAN YOU READ
BEY HAS 4 AND WILL WIN 3 , BEST FEM,…AND BEST DANCE…
AND TO THINK KELLY WILL WIN BEST SONG IS HILARIOUS…THAT SONG IS A MISS COMPARED TO ALL SONGS ON HERE BUT FOR THE RECORD THEY DIDNT PUT WHITE GIRL ADELE ON THE NOMINATION LIST FOR NO REASON BABY
I don’t care for this stupid show. I only watched it last year because the King of R&B opened and slayed!!
He better snag the Best Male R&B/Soul Artist award tho.
KERI HILSON GOT SNUBBED HOW DID MJB GET NOMINATED? AND KELLY ROWLAND????????????????????
BEYONCE DIDNT EVEN COME UP WITH THE DANCE MOVES BY HERSELF!!!!!
get the f*** ouut here keri hilson didnt get nominated at all ????? she already got 2 soultrain awards tho
I AM SO PROUD OF KELLY SHE DESERVES IT..I HOPE SHE WIN..N BEYONCE SHUD ONLY CARRY HOME BEST DANCE BECAUSE IN MY OPINON SHE ASNT COME OUT WITH NOTHING WORTH WHILE THIS YEAR.4 WASNT AS GUD AS HER OLD ALBUMS..BUT BECUZ U POPULAR U WIN
I disagree. I and most professional critics hail 4 as Beyonce’s best work today. The merit of an album is not measured by its number of hit singles.
I don’t understand why Adele is up there. Yeah for the most part music is to break color lines, but aren’t the purpose of these awards to make sure “our” artist of color get the recognition they need and deserve? Believe me Adele is getting hers! To add musically “4” is better than “Iam..”, it’s just not as commercially successful. That doesn’t mean that it’s not good. In my opinion It deserves to win actually.
@VA B**** You Continue To Bring KIM Into Everything When She Has Nothing To do with This B**** are You mad Their Albums were FLOPS ??!! Well STAY MAD !