Best New Artist
- Bruno Mars
- Marsha Ambrosius
- Miguel
- Frank Ocean
Centric Award
- Ledisi
- Raphael Saddiq
- Bilal
- Anthony David
- Aloe Blacc
Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year
- Moment for Life-Nicki Minaj
- All of the Lights-Kanye West
- Look at Me Now-Chris Brown feat. Busta Rhymes and Lil’ Wayne
- Out of My Head-Lupe Fiasco
- Otis-Jay Z/Kanye West
Best Female R&B/Soul Artist
- Kelly Rowland
- Beyonce
- Marsha Ambrosius
- Jennifer Hudson
- Jill Scott
Best Male R&B/Soul Artist
- Trey Songz
- Chris Brown
- R. Kelly
- Miguel
- Cee Lo Green
- Eric Benet
Album of the Year
- 21-Adele
- F.A.M.E.- Chris Brown
- 4-Beyonce
- Passion Pain & Pleasure-Trey Songz
- Light of the Sun-Jill Scott
- Watch The Throne-Jay Z/Kanye West
Song of the Year
- Motivation-Kelly Rowland feat. Lil’ Wayne
- Sure Thing-Miguel
- Rolling in the Deep-Adele
- She Ain’t You-Chris Brown
- All of the Lights- Kanye West
- So In Love-Jill Scott feat. Anthony Hamilton
Best Dance Performance
- Motivation-Kelly Rowland
- Only Girl in the World//What’s My Name-Rihanna
- Run The World-Beyonce
- She Ain’t You-Chris Brown
- Walking-Mary Mary
- Pretty Girl Rock-Keri Hilson
Best Gospel Performance
- I Smile-Kirk Franklin
- Walking-Mary Mary
- Heaven Hear My Heart-Trin-I-Tee 5:7
- I Believe-James Fortune feat. Shawn McLemore
- More-Cece Winans
Best Caribbean Performance
- Man Down-Rihanna
- Summer Time-Vybz Kartel
- Wotless-Kes The Band
- Bend Over-Machel Montano
- Delilah-Movado
Record of the Year (The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award)
- Rolling in the Deep-Adele (Writers: Adele, Paul Epworth)
- Far Away-Marsha Ambrosius (Writers: Marsha Ambrosius, Sterling Simms)
- Best Thing I Never Had-Beyonce (Writers: Antonio Dixon; Kenneth Edmonds; Larry Griffin, Jr.; Beyonce Knowles; Caleb McCampbell; Patrick Smith; Shea Taylor)
- Good Man-Raphael Saddiq (Writers: Raphael Saadiq, Taura Stinson)
- Hold My Hand (Duet with Akon)-Michael Jackson (Writers: Aliaune Thiam (Akon), Giorgio Tuinfort, Claude Kelly)
