Usher is an American R&B singer. He has received multiple awards and nominations for his work in music and film. His awards are predominantly in R&B, Pop, and hip-hop genre categories.
Throughout the course of his career, Usher has won eight Grammy awards, 35 ASCAP Awards, 18 Billboard Music Awards, 14 BMI Awards, 12 Soul Train Music Awards, and eight American Music Awards. For his contributions to music, Usher has received a Musical Arts Award at The BET Honors, a Golden Note award at the ASCAP Awards, and inductions into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and Hollywood Walk of Fame. Outside of music, he's received accolades such as the Freedom Award and President's Volunteer Service Award for his charitable efforts, and an NBA Championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers via part ownership. According to Fuse in 2014, Usher was the 10th most awarded recording artist of all time, winning 356 awards from 665 nominations.
His sophomore studio album My Way (1997) earned Grammy Award nominations for "You Make Me Wanna" and "My Way" as Best Male R&B Vocal performance. He received his first MTV Video Music Award nomination as Best R&B Video for the former and won three Billboard Music Awards including Top Artist in 1998. He also received an NAACP Image Award nomination as Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series for his appearance on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful in 1999. His third studio album, 8701 (2001) generated the singles "U Remind Me", "U Got It Bad", and "U Don't Have to Call". He won his first two Grammy Awards as Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.
His fourth studio album, Confessions (2004) received the most nominations at the 2004 Billboard Music Awards, with 21. He took home 14, including Top Billboard 200 Album, Hot 100 Artist of the Year, Artist of the Year. In 2005, he won the Sammy Davis Jr. Award for Entertainer of the Year and was named Man of the Year at the Glamour Awards. At the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, he won Best Contemporary R&B Album, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
His fifth studio album, Here I Stand (2008) produced title track "Here I Stand" was nominated for the Best Male R&B Vocal Performance award at the 51st Grammy Awards. Raymond v. Raymond (2010) produced "OMG" which won Top R&B Song and also received Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for "There Goes My Baby". Usher won Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist at the AMAs and International Male Artists Of The Year at the NRJ Music Awards in 2011. Looking 4 Myself (2012) produced "Climax" which won Best R&B Performance in 2013.
The ADC is the first global organization to celebrate and award leaders in creative communications. The ADC Annual Awards, part of The One Club for Creativity, is the oldest continuously running industry award show in the world. Usher has won one award.
Ad Stars is an international advertising festival.
The American Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony created by Dick Clark in 1973.
The ASCAP Awards are held annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
The ASCAP Pop Music Awards honors the songwriters and publishers of the most performed pop songs.
The BET Hip Hop Awards are hosted annually by BET for hip hop performers, producers and music video directors.
The BET Honors, established in 2008 by the Black Entertainment Television network, celebrate the lives and achievements of African-American luminaries. The awards, presented annually, are broadcast on BET during Black History Month.
Voted online on Billboards official website, the Billboard Mid-Year Music Award honors artists and shows for their achievements in music in the first half of the year in the United States.
The Billboard Music Awards are sponsored by Billboard magazine and is held annually in December. The awards are based on sales data by Nielsen SoundScan and radio information by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.
The Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards reflect the performance of recordings on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Tracks.
The Billboard Latin Music Awards grew out of the Billboard Music Awards program from Billboard Magazine, an industry publication charting the sales and radio airplay success of musical recordings.
! |- | 2011 || Usher || Crossover Artist Of The Year || |style="text-align:center;"| |- |rowspan="4"| 2012 ||rowspan="4"| "Promise" (with Romeo Santos) || Song Of The Year, Vocal Event || |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"| |- | Tropical Song Of The Year || |- | Digital Songs || |- | Streaming Songs ||
The Billboard Year-End Chart Awards are published annually to honor the artists in many categories announced by Billboard both in the press and as part of their year-end issue.
The Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, located in Atlanta, Georgia, was inaugurated in January 2021. The monument aims to honor African Americans and Black people globally for their accomplishments in entertainment. Situated in the historic Downtown Atlanta area, the Walk of Fame graces the sidewalks of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Northside Drive.
The Dave Pensado Awards is an annual awards held in Los Angeles, California.
The People's Choice Awards is an annual awards show recognizing the people and the work of popular culture.
The Piaf Awards is a part of an annual the festival every year in the spring.
Premios Juventud is an awards show for Spanish-speaking celebrities in the areas of film, music, sports, fashion, and pop culture, presented by the television network Univision.
The President's Volunteer Service Award is a civil award bestowed by the President of the United States. In 2017, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed presented Usher with the Points of Light President's Lifetime Achievement Service Volunteer Award, on behalf of President Barack Obama, for his work with his foundation, Usher's New Look since 1999.
PTTOW! is an invite-only community and summit for today's most creative and inspiring CEOs, CMOs and Icons, spanning 70 major industries. Usher received an Icon award at the 2017 summit.
The Radio Disney Music Awards is an annual awards show which is operated and governed by Radio Disney, an American radio network.
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Radio Music Awards is an annual U.S. award show that honored the year's most successful songs on mainstream radio. Nominations were based on the amount of airplay recording artists receive on radio stations in various formats using chart information compiled by Mediabase.
The Recording Academy is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers and other recording professionals. The Atlanta chapter of the academy presents honours annually.
The Record of the Year Awards was an award voted by the UK public. For many years it was given in conjunction with television programmes of the same name.
The RTHK International Pop Poll Awards is an annual award show in Hong Kong that honors the best in international and national music.
The Saturn Award is an American award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films; it was initially created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror on film, but has since grown to reward other films belonging to genre fiction, as well as on television and home media releases.
SESAC Pop Awards honors its members in an annual awards shows.
The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party was an awards ceremony which ran from 1979 (as the Smash Hits Readers' Poll) to 2005. Each award winner was voted by readers of the Smash Hits magazine.
SoundExchange is an American non-profit collective rights management organization founded in 2003. It is the sole organization designated by the U.S. Congress to collect and distribute digital performance royalties for sound recordings.
The Southern Museum of Music was established to honor and preserve the contributions of musicians whose roots originated in the southern United States.
The key to the city and days give given as an honor to esteemed individuals, such as celebrities or dignitaries, to signify their importance to the city.
The Soul Train Music Awards is an annual award show aired in national broadcast syndication that honors the best in African American music and entertainment established in 1987.
The Sundance Film Festival is the largest annual independent film festival in the United States.
The Teen Choice Awards is an annual awards show that airs on the Fox television network. The awards honor the year's biggest achievements in music, film, sports, television, fashion, and more, voted by viewers aged 11 to 20.
! |- |rowspan="2"|1999 | "Nice & Slow" | Single of the Year | |style="text-align:center;"| |- |She's All That | Choice Movie: Comedy | |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="1"| |- | 2001 | "U Remind Me" | Choice Summer Song | |style="text-align:center;"| |- |rowspan="7"|2002 |8701 | Choice Album | |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="6"| |- |"U Got It Bad" |Choice Love Song | |- |"U Don't Have To Call" |Choice Single | |- | "I Need a Girl (Part One)" <small>(with Diddy & Loon)</small> | Choice Hook Up | |- |rowspan="6"| Usher |Choice R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Artist | |- |Choice Male Artist | |- |rowspan="2"|Choice Male Hottie | |style="text-align:center;"| |- |rowspan="3"|2003 | |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| |- |Choice R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Artist | |- |Choice Male Fashion icon | |- |rowspan="4"|2004 |rowspan="2"|"Yeah!" |Choice R&B track | |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"| |- | Choice Best hook-up | |- |rowspan="1"| Confessions |Choice Album | |- |rowspan="4"| Usher |rowspan="2"|Choice R&B Artist | |- |rowspan="6"|2005 | |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="6"| |- |Choice Male Hottie | |- |Choice Red Carpet Fashion Icon - Male | |- | rowspan="2"| "Caught Up" | Choice Music: R&B/Hip-Hop Track | |- | Choice Music: Party Starter | |- | "Lovers and Friends" <small>(with Lil Jon & Ludacris)</small> | Choice Music: Rap Track | |- |rowspan="2"|2008 |rowspan="4"|Usher |Choice R&B Artist | |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| |- |rowspan="2"|Choice Male Artist | |- |rowspan="4"|2010 | |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| |- |Choice R&B Artist | |- |Raymond v. Raymond |Choice R&B Album | |style="text-align:center;"| |- |"OMG" |Choice R&B track | |style="text-align:center;"| |- |rowspan="4"|2012 |Usher |Choice Summer Music Star: Male | |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| |- |"Climax" |Choice Break-Up Song | |- |"Scream" |Choice Summer Song | |- |"Without You" |Choice R&B/Hip-hop Song | |style="text-align:center;|
The Telecom Mobile Music Awards New Zealand were presented to international and local record labels for the top 20 songs that Telecom mobile users have downloaded as either a ringtone or caller tune starting 2005.
The TMF Awards were annual public prices of TMF for musicians.
Vevo Certified Award honors artists with over 100 million views on Vevo and its partners (including YouTube) through special features on the Vevo website. It was launched in June 2012.
VH1 Big in '04 was the 2004 annual award show that aired on December 1, 2004, in the United States.
Vibe magazine produced and aired its annual Vibe Awards show in 2003 on UPN until 2006. It was then aired on VH1 Soul in 2007.
! |- |rowspan="5"|2004 |rowspan="2"|Usher |R&B Voice of the Year | |style="text-align:center;"| |- |Artist of the Year | |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"| |- |rowspan="2"|"Yeah!" |Club-Banger of the Year | |- |Coolest Collabo | |- |"Confessions Part II" |R&B Song of the Year |
Washington West Award Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2011 by Brad Russell.
The Webby Award are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over two thousand industry experts and technology innovators.
The WPPed Cream Awards were initiated in 2007 to recognise the very best work produced by WPP companies around the world, across all marketing disciplines.
The World Music Awards were established in 1989 and is an international awards show that annually honors musicians based on their worldwide sales figures, which are provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
! |- |rowspan="3"|2004 |rowspan="10"|Usher |World's Best Male Artist | |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| |- |World's Best Pop Male Artist | |- |World's Best R&B Male Artist | |- |rowspan="3"|2005 |World's Best Male Artist | |style="text-align:center;"| |- |World's Best Pop Male Artist | |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| |- |rowspan="2"|World's Best Selling R&B Artist | |- |2008 | |style="text-align:center| |- |rowspan="6"| 2014 |World's Best Entertainer of the Year | |style="text-align:center;" rowspan="6"| |- |World's Best Male Artist | |- |World's Best Live Act | |- |Looking 4 Myself |World's Best Album | |- |rowspan="2"|"Scream" |World's Best Song | |- |World's Best Video |
The Young Hollywood Awards is an award presented annually which honors the year's biggest achievements in pop music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, as voted on by teenagers aged 13âÂÂ19 and young adults.
! |- |2001 |Usher |One to Watch - Male | |style="text-align:center;"|