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.

ADC Awards

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

Ad Stars is an international advertising festival.

American Music Awards

The American Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony created by Dick Clark in 1973.

ASCAP Awards

The ASCAP Awards are held annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

ASCAP Latin Awards

ASCAP Pop Awards

The ASCAP Pop Music Awards honors the songwriters and publishers of the most performed pop songs. {| class="wikitable" !Year !Nominated work !Award !Ref.

ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards

ASCAP honors its top members in a series of annual awards shows in seven different music categories: pop, rhythm and soul, film and television, Latin, country, Christian, and concert music.

BBC Music Awards

The BBC Music Awards are the BBC's annual pop music awards, held every December, as a celebration of the musical achievements over the past twelve months. The event is coordinated by the BBC's music division, BBC Music.

BDS Certified Spin Awards

Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, better known as BDS, is a service that tracks monitored radio, television and internet airplay of songs based on the number of spins and detections.

BET Awards

The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment. Usher has won 7 awards from 26 nominations. He was also honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his notable contributions to the music industry in 2024. !Ref.

BET Hip Hop Awards

The BET Hip Hop Awards are hosted annually by BET for hip hop performers, producers and music video directors.

The BET Honors

The BET Honors were established in 2008 by the Black Entertainment Television network to grace the lives and achievements of African-American luminaries. The awards will be presented annually and broadcast on BET during Black History Month.

Billboard Awards

Billboard All Time Chart Awards

Billboard Greatest Pop Star

Billboard Mid-Year Music Awards

Voted online on Billboard's 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.

Billboard Music Awards

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.

Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards

The Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards reflect the performance of recordings on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Tracks.

Billboard Touring Awards

Billboard Video Music Awards

Latin Billboard Music Awards

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. !Ref.

Billboard Year-End Chart Awards

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.

Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame

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. {| class="wikitable" ! Year !! Nominated Work !! Award !! Result !Ref.

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards was a film awards ceremony, founded by Blockbuster Inc., that ran from 1995 until 2001. The awards were produced by Ken Ehrlich every year. {| class="wikitable" ! Year !! Nominated Work !! Award !! Result !Ref.

BMI Awards

The BMI Awards are annual award ceremonies for songwriters in various genres organized by Broadcast Music, Inc., based in the United States and honoring songwriters and publishers.

BMI Latin Awards

BMI London Awards

BMI Pop Awards

BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards

BMI Urban Awards

Boys & Girls Clubs of America

The Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) is a national organization of local chapters which provide after-school programs for young people. The BGCA recognizes distinguished Alumni from professional athletes, business leaders, actors, and musicians that got their start at their hometown Boys & Girls Club.

Bravo Otto

The Bravo Otto award is a German accolade honoring excellence of performers in film, television and music. Presented annually since 1957, winners are selected by the readers of Bravo magazine. The award is presented in gold, silver and bronze.

BRIT Awards

The BRIT Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards.

Campaign Big Awards

The Campaign Big Awards recognize the best agencies, campaigns and creative work of the year. The Campaign Media Awards celebrate creativity in the media business, with categories for both media agencies and media owners.

Cannes Lions

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is an annual event for those working in creative communications, advertising, and related fields. It is considered the largest gathering of the advertising and creative communications industry.

Capital FM Awards

Capital is a network of eleven independent contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom, broadcasting a mix of local and networked programming.

Ciclope Festival

The CICLOPE Festival is the international conference and award show dedicated to craft in moving image. In the last few years, it has become the ultimate platform for directors, creatives, artists, producers and entertainment professionals to network, be inspired and catch up with the latest trends in storytelling.

Clio Awards

The Clio Awards is an annual award program that recognizes innovation and creative excellence in advertising, design and communication.

Creative Circle

The Creative Circle (also known as The Advertising Creative Circle and The Advertising Creative Circle of Great Britain) is an educational awards body dedicated to creativity in British advertising, and the oldest advertising and marketing awards body in Europe.

CreativePool

CreativePool is an annual awards that celebrate and showcase the best work, people, and companies from the past year and is the only creative awards competition which allows the audience to have a say in the winners. Usher has received one award.

Design and Art Direction

Design and Art Direction is a British educational charity which exists to promote excellence in design and advertising.

DOC LA

The DOC LA is an international documentary film festival in Hollywood, California.

Drum Design Awards

The Drum Design Awards is an annual award that recognise great design being produced by agencies globally and give you an opportunity to see your best design work rewarded.

Ebony

The annual Ebony Power 100 list salutes the remarkable achievements of Black professionals, entertainers and civic leaders.

ESPY Awards

The ESPY Awards are an annual ceremony presented that recognize individual and team athletic achievement and other sports-related performance during the calendar year preceding a given annual ceremony.

Eurobest European Advertising Festival

The Eurobest The European Festival of Creativity is an annual event which celebrates and rewards creative excellence in creative communications, advertising and related fields in Europe.

Ford Freedom Award Scholar

The Ford Freedom Awards is an annual event held in Detroit, Michigan.

Fragrance Foundation

The Fragrance Foundation is an annual event held in New York City since 1973.

Georgia Music Hall of Fame

The Georgia Music Hall of Fame program was established by the State of Georgia in 1979 to honor Georgia musicians who have made significant contributions to the music industry.

Glamour Awards

The Glamour Awards is hosted by Glamour magazine every year to hand out the Woman of the Year awards to honor extraordinary and inspirational women from a variety of fields, including entertainment, business, sports, music, science, medicine, education and politics. The awards started in 2003 and are hosted every May in the UK. From 2004, Glamour introduced the Man of the Year award, which Usher won in 2005.

Gordon Parks Foundation

The Gordon Parks Foundation is dedicated to preserving the work and legacy of Gordon Parks as well as other photographers, filmmakers and artists. Usher was honored at its 2015 annual awards dinner and auction.

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry. Considered the highest music honor, the awards were established in 1958. Usher has won 8 awards. !Ref.

Guinness World Records

The Guinness World Records is a reference book published annually, listing world records and national records, both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

Hollywood Life

Hollywood Life magazine hosts an annual Breakthrough of the Year award show; at its 5th annual show, Usher was awarded.

Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is an internationally recognized Hollywood icon. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce continues to add stars on the Walk of Fame as the representative of the City of Los Angeles.

IFPI Hong Kong Top Sales Music Awards

The IFPIHKG Awards are held annually in Hong Kong to honor every year's best-selling artists. Usher has received one award.

iHeartRadio Music Awards

The iHeartRadio Music Awards is a music awards show, founded by iHeartRadio in 2014, to recognize the most popular artists and music over the past year as determined by the network's listeners. !Ref.

Interactive Advertising Bureau

The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) UK is the industry body for digital advertising, committed to building a sustainable future for digital advertising. We do this by bringing the industry together through our 1,200 members including media owners, agencies and brands.

International Dance Music Awards

The Winter Music Conference was established in 1985. It is a part of the Winter Music Conference, a weeklong electronic music event held annually.

International Design Awards

The International Design Awards are a group of awards that recognize, celebrate and promote design visionaries and emerging talent in architecture, interior, product, graphic and fashion design.

Juno Awards

The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame are also inducted as part of the awards ceremonies.

Kora Awards

The Kora Awards are music awards given annually for musical achievement in sub-Saharan Africa. !Ref.

Latin American Music Awards

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Little Kids Rock

Little Kids Rock is an organization that partners with public school districts with the goal of ensuring that all students (K-12) have access to music education and its many benefits.

Lo Nuestro Awards

London International Awards

The London International Awards are a worldwide awards annually honoring excellence in advertising, digital media, production, design, music & sound and branded entertainment. It was the first international advertising award of its kind to acknowledge all media and methods from around the world to be judged by a diverse global jury

Make-A-Wish

Make-A-Wish is an organisation that arranges experiences described as "wishes" to children with life-threatening medical conditions. At its 2017 Wish Gala in Los Angeles, Usher was honored for his granting of 40 wishes to children through his long-time partnership.

Meteor Awards

A Meteor Ireland Music Award was an accolade bestowed upon professionals in the music industry in Ireland and further afield

MIXX Awards

The MIXX Awards recognize and showcase great European digital research projects and the contribution they have made to the development of the digital advertising industry.

Mnet Asian Music Awards

The Mnet Asian Music Awards is one of the major K-pop music awarding ceremonies held annually by CJ E&M through its music channel Mnet, involving the participation of some of the most well-known actors and celebrities, not only in South Korea, but also in other countries such as China (including Taiwan and Hong Kong), Japan, Indonesia, Canada, Singapore and United States.

Morehouse College

Morehouse College is a private, all-male, liberal arts, historically African American college located in Atlanta, Georgia. Its annual "A Candle in the Dark" Gala presents the Candle Award in honor of excellence in the arts, athletics, business, education, entertainment, government, law, medicine, the military, religion, and science and technology.

Music of Black Origin Awards, UK (MOBO)

The MOBO Awards (an acronym for Music of Black Origin) were established in 1996 by Kanya King. They are held annually in the United Kingdom to recognize artists of any race or nationality performing music of black origin.

MTV Awards

MTV Asia Awards

MTV Australia Video Music Awards

MTV Europe Music Awards

The MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) were established in 1994 by MTV Networks Europe to celebrate the most popular music videos in Europe.

MTV Platinum Video Plays Awards

MTV Video Music Awards

The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year.

MTV Video Music Awards Japan

TRL Awards

MuchMusic Video Awards

The MuchMusic Video Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the Canadian music video channel MuchMusic.

NAACP Image Awards

The NAACP Image Awards is an award presented annually by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music and literature.

Nantucket Film Festival

The Nantucket Film Festival is a film festival founded in 1996 which focuses on screenwriting.

National Civil Rights Museum

The Freedom Award established in 1991 is an annual event for the National Civil Rights Museum. The Freedom Award honors individuals who have made significant contributions in civil rights and who have laid the foundation for present and future leaders in the battle for human rights.

NBA

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. As part owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Usher received credit to their win of the NBA Finals at the end of the 2015–16 season for being a part owner of the team .

New York Festival

The New York Festival Advertising Award is an annual event for those working in advertising.

New York Film Critics Online

The New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) is an organization founded by Harvey Karten in 2000 composed of Internet film critics based in New York City. The group meets once a year, in December, for voting on its annual NYFCO Awards.

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards were established in 1988 and is an annual awards show that honors the year's biggest television, film and music acts, as voted by the people who watch the Nickelodeon cable channel.

NRJ Music Awards (France)

A major award ceremony that takes place in Cannes, France.

One Club Show

The One Club is an awards show recognizing the best creative work in advertising, interactive, design and branded entertainment.

Ozone Awards

Ozone is an American magazine focused on the hip hop music of the Southern United States. The first annual Ozone Awards were held on August 6, 2006. ! Ref.

Pensado Awards

The Dave Pensado Awards is an annual awards held in Los Angeles, California.

People Choice Awards, USA

The People's Choice Awards is an annual awards show recognizing the people and the work of popular culture.

Piaf Awards

The Piaf Awards is a part of an annual the festival every year in the spring.

Pitchfork Magazine

Premios Juventud

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.

President's Volunteer Service Award

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.

Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards

PTTOW!

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.

Radio Disney Music Awards

The Radio Disney Music Awards is an annual awards show which is operated and governed by Radio Disney, an American radio network. !Ref.

Radio Music Awards, USA

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.

Recording Academy

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.

Record of the Year Awards

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.

RTHK International Pop Poll Awards

The RTHK International Pop Poll Awards is an annual award show in Hong Kong that honors the best in international and national music.

Saturn Awards

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

SESAC Pop Awards honors its members in an annual awards shows.

Smash Hits Poll Winners Party

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

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.

Southern Museum of Music

The Southern Museum of Music was established to honor and preserve the contributions of musicians whose roots originated in the southern United States.

State Honors

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.

Soul Train Music Awards, USA

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.

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is the largest annual independent film festival in the United States.

Teen Choice Awards

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. !Ref.

Telecom Mobile Music Awards

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.

Time Magazine

The Source Music Awards

TMF Awards (Netherlands)

The TMF Awards were annual public prices of TMF for musicians.

Vevo Certified Awards

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 Awards

VH1 Big in '04 was the 2004 annual award show that aired on December 1, 2004 in the United States.

Vibe Awards

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. !Ref.

Washington West Award Film Festival

Washington West Award Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2011 by Brad Russell.

Webby Awards

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.

WPPed Cream

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.

World Music Awards

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. ! Ref.

Young Hollywood Awards

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 13–19 and young adults. ! Ref.