The 2016 Soul Train Awards, taped earlier this month at the Las Vegas Orleans Arena, saw some of music’s finest go head-to-head for the show’s coveted trophies.
With the likes of Urban’s top names, including Drake and Beyonce leading the nominations tally with over 7 nods each, the competition was steep. Now that the show is over, find out who picked up which awards in which categories at the high profile outing below…
Best New Artist
Anderson .Paak
Andra Day
Bryson Tiller
Chance The Rapper — WINNER
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 — WINNER
Bilal
Lalah Hathaway
Musiq Soulchild
Video of the Year
Beyoncé, “Formation” — WINNER
Beyoncé, “Sorry”
Drake, “Hotline Bling”
Kanye West, “Fade”
Rihanna feat. Drake, “Work”
Best Gospel/Inspirational Song
Donnie McClurkin, “I Need You”
Hezekiah Walker, “Better”
Kirk Franklin, “123 Victory” — WINNER
Tamela Mann, “God Provides”
Travis Greene, “Made A Way”
Album/Mixtape of the Year
Beyoncé, Lemonade — WINNER
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 feat. Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz, “No Problem”
DJ Khaled feat. Drake, “For Free”
Drake, “Controlla”
Drake feat. Wizkid and Kyla, “One Dance”
Fat Joe & Remy Ma feat. French Montana and Infared, “All the Way Up” — WINNER
Best R&B/Soul Female Artist
Alicia Keys
Beyoncé — WINNER
Fantasia
Jill Scott
Rihanna
Song of the Year
Adele, “Hello”
Beyoncé, “Formation” — WINNER
Bryson Tiller, “Don’t”
Drake, “Controlla”
Rihanna feat. 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 Li, 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 feat. Teyana Taylor) – “Fade” — WINNER
Rihanna feat. Drake, “Work”
Usher feat. Young Thug, “No Limit”
Best Collaboration
Beyoncé feat. Kendrick Lamar, “Freedom”
Chance the Rapper feat. Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz, “No Problem”
DJ Khaled feat. Drake, “For Free”
Fat Joe & Remy Ma feat. French Montana and Infared, “All The Way Up”
Rihanna feat. Drake, “Work”
Your thoughts?
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Lmao Beyoncé cleaned up I see.
She wasn’t even there.
Good look remy ma get your awards ma.
She paid for them all, smfh!
Lmaoo for a Soul Train Award?? She been copping them since ’98..
cool.
Congrats to Queen bey. Slaying these award shows all year ! Can’t wait to see her snatch these Grammy nominations on December 6. ??
Keep wishing m***********.
I know a little something you don’t ?
Yeah and I’m sure she’ll show up for the white audience. She’d be front row st the soul train awards if it was the beginning of her career when only blacks supported her. This is why I don’t buy her stuff.
Same here f*** that b****!
They stay kissing Beyonce’s @ss, yet she never show up.
@mark shut yo hating ass up!! Bey still gone be GREAT whether you or myself like her. #Saltyassnavypunks
Has FRIH ever been to the soul train awards tho???? When was the last time FRIH attended the BET awards and performed(MINUS THE 2015 PROMO SLOT FOR ‘B**** BETTER FLOP’….)
Hmm BBHMM outsold every single
from Lemonade tho lol
Brings up Rihanna when the subject is Soul Train and Ms.Pro Black Beyonce. You pest say Rih isn’t a R&B artist, so why would she be there? And she was at BET in 2015. Funny how R&B pro black Beyonce wasn’t at the Soul Train awards, yet hopped her @ss at the Country Music Award at a drop of her hair hat.
So because she isn’t R&B she can’t show up to a BLACK awards show? And weren’t y’all the same ones who claim Needed Me is a r&b song? She literally showed up to the Bet awards last year to only promote the release of bbhmm.Ya’ll be the first to criticize Bey for not doing this and that but yo homegirl ain’t doing shít either lol.
A bunch of FLOPS is all I see!!!
Beyonce & rihanna know that the soul train awards are beneath them unless they are being honored…and if they keep putting rihanna in the Rb categories at these award shows with Beyonce…. The other Rb girls k Michelle fantasia, jasmine Sullivan chrisette michelle brandy Monica Janelle monae keyshia Cole meloni fionna can forget about ever receiving awards because beyonce and rihanna are the oy girls they care about which is unfair
Love on the Brain is really surprising me no promo and no video and it’s still rising massively love my queen Rih!
She sang it horribly in Abu Dhabi
DEATH! The video’s circulating have litteraly all the comments shredding her to pieces! ?????
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I guess she gave all her vocals during her BBMA2016 performances. ?
hahahahaha
She sounded and looked like PAIN & SUFFERING…LMAO. THE NAVY WILL CLAIM THAT WAS EMOTION…..I JUST NOTICED HOW FRIH USES EXAGGERATED EMOTIVE SENTIMENTS TO COVER UP HER FAILURE AT HITTING DEM NOTES……I CAN’T.
This tweet just about sums up scamanna tho LMFAO!!!
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“Rihanna be finessing the f*** outta fans. At the concerts skipping the high notes, acting like she feeling them b****** too much to sing ?”
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The replies are even more hilarious!
Fans seeming to be enjoying themselves immensely I mean she was taking photo ops with leaders and other prestigious people of the region! Her global power and presence is amazing
She’s aggy ! We need a video ??
Beyoncé cleaned house once again! Guess a certain someone will clean up at another fan voted award show aka The T*** Choice Awards ???
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Grammy Nominations are so close!!! OMG!!!
Hmm mad because the GP prefers a certain other ??? Lol
The GP only want Frihanna when its free. When they gotta pay up all we hear is crickets.
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Auntie tour is playing hide and seek with its boxscores. When my fav who the GP apparently don’t prefer, had no problem selling out all her stops and reporting the attendances and earnings. ?☕
Your fav needed Super Bowl hype to bring them numbers in Rihanna is outgrossing Bey for her age sweetie she is fine congrats to your fave for her tour but no need to try and shade Rih you know she is winning.
That would be true if Beyonce’s latest album and tour didn’t slaughter Rihanna’s latest album and tour. Rihanna’s always been great at singles.
Rihanna fans that frequent TGJ are damn there retarded. Especially that fat ugly queen that stays on tgj’s fb timeline.I bet you’re him.
Sweetie Lemonade did no slaughter Anti the delusion lol Rih is sitting pretty with a 25 million dollar check to start and countless records broken! 33 weeks in the top 10 and very successful singles with millions sold! Anti is an award winning album and the second most streamed female album of all time. Her tour is a success and will definitely be grossing over 100 million and probably way more then that when final numbers are calculated since the European leg was very successful and had over 30 stadium dates ! Check her receipts hun!
Literally everything you brought up, Bey has slaughtered her in. We give her singles, but Lemonade is the most successful female release this year by FAR.
The way we compare the eras is not accurate both are great Anti is better to the Navy Lemonade is better to the Hive
So BEYONCE won 4 awards and didn’t even perform in return for her ‘BOUGHT’ awards……INTERESTING. I WONDER HOW THE NAZI FEELS…LMAO
The Navy is fine our Queen is still winning everyday lol
So no one else catches the shade of the Hip Hop award now being called Rhythm & Bars? No just me? Ok. Lol
Twitter was dragging this fake thot. You’ll show up for CMAS AND VMAS but not soul train awards… lol these fools are a joke for kissing her ass and still no show from her and flop ratings.
Don’t forget to add BET awards to thar list. She showed up AND performed Freedom with Kendrick Lamar, the first and only televised performance of that song.
She’s had a lot of promo performing at nearly every major award show
Anti and Rihanna will definitely be cleaning up at the billboard awards where hype doesn’t matter. It’s all about the numbers and chart positions with them all facts lol
Lemonade and Beyonce will definitely be cleaning up at the Grammy awards where hype doesn’t matter. It’s all about the talent and quality music lol
Then why don’t artists like Whitney Mariah Madonna etc etc have less then 7 Grammies each? The Grammies are very biased and controversial in who they choose for the major awards everyone knows that hun
Anti will only be winning awards for its singles. The actual album has no chance against 25, Views, Lemonade, Purpose, etc. I dont see her picking up a lot of awards tbh but if she does good for her.
In 2016 alone, Rihanna has scored the same amount of Top 10’s Beyoncé has scored this decade!
How much has Anti sold? Asking for a friend…
Over 3 million SPS
She asked for how much it SOLD… SPS is just the Navy’s best friend…
3 singles to have over a million sales only artist of 2016 with Too Good and Love on the Brain soon after approaching!
Anti is 3 millions SPS without 1.4 million Samsung gifted added if streaming were so
easy why isn’t other artists? Especially after a giveaway of that magnitude even huge artists with core fan basses
Lies! Where are the receipts! That would mean Auntir qualifies for 4x platinum certification and I don’t see The RIAA giving it such! You know damn well Rihanna loves her certifications and would’ve sent that in quick!
Navy has been saying the same thing the RIAA has not updated ther certifications yet because We Found Love qualifies to be a diamond platinum
It’s not up to the RIAA to update certifications. The artists or record label must submit in a request for it.
Bih Anti is not at 3 million SPS. Im starting to get tired of you hyping up ole girl stats like she having blockbuster success.
Do your research hun it’s definitely 3 million SPS worldwide
Since Beyonce don’t wanna show up to the Soul Train Awards, they should stop nominating her. Ban her and give recognition to those who appreciate it.
Also Rihanna isn’t seeinf Bey in tours like you said above. Rihanna may be grossing more at her age than Bey was but ticket prices were different then.
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Beyoncé and Rihanna have done practically the same amount of shows yet Beyoncé has grossed over $800 million and Rihanna has grossed over $400 million lol! Even Taylor is slaying Flopanna! ?
She’s in the top 10 tours for female artists and she’s a black woman jump off her jock fr fr lol Using Taylor now huh? Well she’s slaying your fav aswell then it took Beyoncé how many years to teach this touring status???
King B basically sweep these awards! Lemonade’s been winning trophies everywhere: BET, VMAS and now Soul Train! It’s been a home for Bey all year long! It’s time to get these Grammys tho!
To buy or not to buy an award, that is the question. Tis nobler……LMAO. They are rigged we now know. A very credible insider (Kanye) has let the “secret” loose.
Lmaooo at Kanye being “credible”.
She hates these BET Award shows because they kiss her b*** too much and she doesn’t like that. I find it funny that Chance the rapper has been out since 2012 and now that he’s receiving recognition from Jay-Z and Beyonce, they giving him an award for best new artist? Lol
werk Tey !