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2025 AIME Awards
Best R&B / Soul Song
Award Field
Genre
01
How Was I Supposed to Know?
Telisha Jones
Built from Jones's own written poetry, the song reached No. 1 on R&B Digital Song Sales and anchored the case that AI-era R&B can still rest on a human pen. All five nominees are Jones's own compositions from “Unfolded.”
02
Miscarriage Blues
Telisha Jones
A raw, autobiographical soul-blues lyric.
They Don't Love Like Grandma Did
Telisha Jones
A generational R&B narrative.
We Only Link At Funerals
Telisha Jones
A pointed lyric on family and distance.
Back When Love Was Real
Telisha Jones
A nostalgic soul composition.