Juno Award for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year

The Juno Award for "R&B/Soul Recording of the Year" was awarded from 1985 to 2020, as recognition each year for the best rhythm and blues/soul album in Canada. Beginning with the Juno Awards of 2021, it was split into two new categories for Contemporary R&B/Soul Recording of the Year and Traditional R&B/Soul Recording of the Year.

Winners

Best R&B/Soul Recording (1985 - 2002)

Year	Winner(s)	Recording	Nominees
1985	Liberty Silver	Lost Somewhere Inside Your Love	Demo Cates, "Memories of Moments" Yvonne Moore, "Hit and Run Lover" Wayne St. John, "Two Can Play" Something Extra, "Mega Mix"
1986	Billy Newton-Davis	Love is a Contact Sport	Kenny Hamilton, "Right Here Is Where You Belong" Glen Ricketts, "I Found a Love" Liberty Silver, "All in the Way" Erroll Starr, "The Key"
1987	Kim Richardson	Peek-A-Boo	George Olliver, Dream Girl Glen Ricketts, Big City Erroll Starr, For The Love of Money Tchukon, Here and Now
1988	No Juno Awards this year
1989	Erroll Starr	Angel	Candi, Dancing Under a Latin Moon Debbie Johnson and Demo Cates, Secret Love Lorraine Scott, Crying for Love Liberty Silver, Private Property
1990	Billy Newton-Davis	Spellbound	George Banton, Your Love Debbie Johnson, Mega Love Jay W. McGee, Another Love in Your Life Lorraine Scott, Never Be Lonely
1991	Simply Majestic feat. B-Kool	Dance To The Music (Work Your Body)	Dance Appeal, Can't Repress the Cause MCJ and Cool G, So Listen Michie Mee and L.A. Luv, Jamaican Funk Spunkadelic, Take Me Like I Am
1992	Love & Sas	Call My Name	Debbie Johnson, Let Me Go Lorraine Scott, All Talk Simply Majestic, Destiny Helen Sharpe, Got 2 Have Your Love
1993	Love & Sas	Once in a Lifetime	Debbie Johnson, "Power to the People" The Nylons, "Don't Look Any Further" Lorraine Scott, "If That Was a Dream" Vivienne Williams, "Infatuated"
1994	Rupert Gayle	The Time Is Right (I'll Be There For You)	John James, "Mothers of Hope" MCJ and Cool G, "Love Me Right" Carol Medina, "And the Song Goes" George St. Kitts, "All I Need"
1995	Bass Is Base	First Impression for the Bottom Jigglers	The Earthtones, "Key to My Heart" Gentlemen X, "Smooth & Soft" Carol Medina, "I Had a Dream" The Nylons, "Love T.K.O."
1996	Deborah Cox	Deborah Cox	Bass is Base, Memories of the SoulShack Survivors jacksoul, Absolute Philosopher Kings, Philosopher Kings Charlene Smith, Feel the Good Times
1997	Carlos Morgan	Feelin' Alright	The Earthtones, Blindfolded and Ready Gavin Hope, Can I Get Close The McAuley Boys, In Another Lifetime George St. Kitts, Never Stop
1998	Deborah Cox	"Things Just Ain't the Same"	Camille Douglas, "Don't Leave Me Hangin" Glenn Lewis, "The Thing to Do" Philosopher Kings, Famous, Rich and Beautiful Unique, "How May I Do You"
1999	Deborah Cox	One Wish	Jully Black feat. Saukrates, Rally'n Kirsten Farkollie, I Need Some Time Glenn Lewis, Bout Your Love Tamia, Tamia
2000	2Rude feat. Snow, Smoothe tha Hustler, Latoya and Miranda	Thinkin' About You	Blacklisted feat. ORA, Taj and Deslisha Thomas, Tha Crab Theory Michael Clarke, All My Love Nodeja, Nodeja Ivana Santilli, Brown
2001	jacksoul	Sleepless	Baby Blue Soundcrew feat. Glenn Lewis, "Only Be In Love" D-Cru, "I Will Be Waiting" The Philosopher Kings, "If I Ever Lose This Heaven" Tamia, A Nu Day
2002	Glenn Lewis	Don't You Forget It	Baby Blue Soundcrew feat. Jully Black and Baby Cham, "The Day Before" Chin Injeti, "Day Dreaming" Jamie Sparks, "Unforgettable" Sugar Jones, "Never Leave Hurt Alone"

R&B/Soul Recording of the Year (2003 - Present)

Year	Winner(s)	Recording	Nominees
2003	Remy Shand	The Way I Feel	Jully Black, You Changed Shawn Desman, Get Ready Carl Henry, RNB Glenn Lewis, World Outside My Window
2004	In Essence	The Master Plan	Big Black Lincoln, Pimpin' Life Glenn Lewis feat. Kardinal Offishall, Back for More Tamia, Officially Missing You X-Quisite, X-Quisite
2005	Keshia Chanté	Keshia Chanté	Gary Beals, Gary Beals jacksoul, Resurrected Ray Robinson, What It Is Tamia, More
2006	Shawn Desman	Back for More	Jully Black, This Is Me Divine Brown, Divine Brown Cory Lee, "The Naughty Song" Massari, Massari
2007	jacksoul	mySOUL	Deesha, "Life Less Ordinary" George, "Believe" Karl Wolf, "Face Behind The Face" Keshia Chanté, "Been Gone"
2008	Jully Black	Revival	Corneille, The Birth of Cornelius Ebrahim, Goldrush Keshia Chanté, 2U God Made Me Funky, We Can All Be Free
2009	Divine Brown	The Love Chronicles	Deborah Cox, The Promise Elise Estrada, Elise Estrada Zaki Ibrahim, Money Ivana Santilli, TONY
2010	jacksoul	"Lonesome Highway"	Jully Black, The Black Book Jarvis Church, The Long Way Home Danny Fernandes, Intro Melanie Fiona, The Bridge
2011	Quanteisha	"Stars"	Keshia Chanté, "Test Drive" Raghav feat. Kardinal Offishall, "So Much", Solitair feat. Kardinal Offishall, "Come True" Karl Wolf, Nightlife
2012	Melanie Fiona	"Gone and Never Coming Back"	Jully Black feat. Kardinal Offishall, "Set it Off" JRDN, IAMJRDN Robin Thicke feat. Lil Wayne, "Pretty Lil Heart" Karl Wolf feat. Kardinal Offishall, "Ghetto Love"
2013	The Weeknd	Trilogy	Jully Black, "Fugitive" Shawn Desman, "Nobody Does It Like You" Melanie Fiona, "Change the Record" Kreesha Turner, Tropic Electric
2014	JRDN featuring Kardinal Offishall	"Can't Choose"	Joanna Borromeo, "Kaleidoscope" Kim Davis, "There's Only One" Melanie Durrant, "Gone" The Weeknd, "Kiss Land"
2015	The Weeknd	"Often"	Melanie Durrant, "Four Seasons" jacksoul, "Got to Have It" JRDN, JRDN Ben Stevenson, Dirty Laundry
2016	The Weeknd	Beauty Behind the Madness	Alessia Cara, Four Pink Walls Dru, "Déjà Vu" Patrick Lehman, Butchy's Son August Rigo, The Fall Out
2017	The Weeknd	Starboy	Daniel Caesar, Pilgrim's Paradise Tanika Charles, Soul Run dvsn, Sept. 5 PARTYNEXTDOOR, PARTYNEXTDOOR 3
2018	Daniel Caesar	Freudian	Jahkoy, Foreign Water Jessie Reyez, Kiddo Jhyve, Human Keshia Chanté, Unbound 01
2019	Jessie Reyez	Being Human in Public	Anders, Twos Black Atlass, Pain & Pleasure Charlotte Day Wilson, Stone Woman The Weeknd, My Dear Melancholy,
2020	Jessie Reyez, Tory Lanez and Tainy	"Feel It Too"	Amaal, "Black Dove" Daniel Caesar, "Case Study 01" Tanika Charles, "The Gumption" Tory Lanez, Chixtape 5

References

Holly Gordon, "The Weeknd, JP Saxe, Jessie Reyez and Justin Bieber lead 2021 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, March 9, 2021.
"A look at Juno Awards nominees". Canadian Press, April 1, 2004.
Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2019.

v t e Juno Awards
Awards to individuals	Artist of the Year Fan Choice Group of the Year Breakthrough Artist of the Year Breakthrough Group of the Year Producer Recording Engineer Songwriter
Awards for recordings	Album of the Year Adult Alternative Adult Contemporary Alternative Blues Children's Comedy Classical – Large Ensemble Classical – Small Ensemble Classical – Solo Classical Composition CCM/Gospel Contemporary Indigenous Artist Contemporary R&B/Soul Contemporary Roots Country Dance Electronic Francophone Global Music Heavy Metal Instrumental International Jazz – Solo Jazz – Group Jazz – Vocal Pop Rap Album/EP Rap Single Reggae Rock Single of the Year Traditional Indigenous Artist Traditional R&B/Soul Traditional Roots Underground Dance
Awards for technicality	Music DVD Recording Package Video
Discontinued categories	Classical Album of the Year (1977–1985) Classical – Solo or Chamber Ensemble (1985–2021) Classical – Vocal or Choral Performance (1994–2021) Indigenous Artist or Group (1994–2021) Jazz Album (1977–1993) Jazz – Contemporary (1994–2014) Jazz – Traditional (1994–2014) Rap Recording (1991–2021) R&B/Soul Recording (1985–2020) Roots and Traditional Album (1989–1995) Roots & Traditional Album – Solo (1996–2015) Roots & Traditional Album – Group (1996–2015)
Special awards	Canadian Music Hall of Fame Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award Juno Humanitarian Award
Years	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Leadership	Walt Grealis Stan Klees Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Notes	Due to the rescheduling of the ceremony from late fall to early spring, no ceremony was held in 1988.
See also Music of Canada Polaris Music Prize Much Music Video Awards Félix Awards East Coast Music Awards Western Canadian Music Awards

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