2025
Awards
Best R&B / Soul Song
Recognizes the songwriting behind a single R&B and soul work — its melody, structure, and any lyrics. Using AI only to polish a finished human song (for example, mastering it) does not count here.
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2025 Awards
Best R&B / Soul Song
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Telisha Jones - How Was I Supposed to Know?
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.”
Other nominees
A raw, autobiographical soul-blues lyric.
A generational R&B narrative.
A pointed lyric on family and distance.
A nostalgic soul composition.