This page lists the winners and nominees for the Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Group, Band or Duo. The award was given out every year since the first annual Soul Train Music Awards in 1987. From 1989 to 1992 the award was known as R&B/Urban Contemporary Single – Group, Band or Duo. When the Soul Train Music Awards returned in 2009 the categories of Best R&B/Soul Single – Group, Band or Duo and Best R&B/Soul Album – Group, Band or Duo were consolidated into the Best R&B/Soul Male Artist and Best R&B/Soul Female Artist categories, depending on group gender. Boyz II Men and TLC have won the most awards in this category, with a total of two wins each.
Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
1980s Year Artist Single Ref 1987 Cameo "Word Up" Atlantic Starr "Secret Lovers" Timex Social Club "Rumors" Dionne Warwick and Friends "That's What Friends Are For" 1988 LeVert "Casanova" Atlantic Starr "Always" Earth, Wind & Fire "System of Survival" The Whispers "Rock Steady" 1989 E.U. "Da Butt" Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock "It Takes Two" Guy "Groove Me" New Edition "Can You Stand the Rain"
1990s Year Artist Single Ref 1990 Soul II Soul "Keep On Movin'" Guy "I Like" Surface "Shower Me with Your Love" Sweet Obsession "Cash" 1991 En Vogue "Hold On" After 7 "Ready or Not" Bell Biv DeVoe "Poison" Quincy Jones "The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)" 1992 Color Me Badd "I Wanna Sex You Up" Boyz II Men "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" Jodeci "Forever My Lady" Sounds of Blackness "Optimistic" 1993 Boyz II Men "Please Don't Go" Arrested Development "Tennessee" En Vogue "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" Jodeci "Come and Talk to Me" 1994 Jodeci "Lately" H-Town "Knockin' Da Boots Tony! Toni! Toné! "Anniversary" 1995 Boyz II Men "I'll Make Love to You" 69 Boyz "Tootsee Roll" Blackstreet "Before I Let You Go" Bossman and Blakjak "Much Love" 1996 TLC "Waterfalls" Boyz II Men "Water Runs Dry" Groove Theory "Tell Me" Jodeci "Love U 4 Life" 1997 Blackstreet "No Diggity" 112 "Only You" AZ Yet "Last Night" Mint Condition "What Kind of Man Would I Be?" 1998 Dru Hill "In My Bed" Destiny's Child "No, No, No" Kirk Franklin and God's Property "Stomp" LSG "My Body" Puff Daddy and Faith Evans "I'll Be Missing You" 1999 Next "Too Close" Brandy and Monica "The Boy is Mine" K-Ci & JoJo "All My Life" The Temptations "Stay"
2000s Year Artist Single Ref 2000 TLC "No Scrubs" Destiny's Child "Bills, Bills, Bills" Dru Hill "Beauty" Ideal "Get Gone" 2001 Jagged Edge "Let's Get Married" Destiny's Child "Independent Women, Part I" Whitney Houston and Deborah Cox "Same Script, Different Cast" Lucy Pearl "Dance Tonight" 2002 The Isley Brothers Featuring Ronald Isley "Contagious" Destiny's Child "Survivor" Jagged Edge with Nelly "Where the Party At" 'NSYNC "Gone" 2003 B2K "Bump, Bump, Bump" Dru Hill "I Should Be..." Floetry "Floetic" TLC "Girl Talk" 2004 Floetry "Say Yes" B2K "Girlfriend" The Isley Brothers Featuring Ronald Isley and JS "Busted" Jagged Edge "Walked Outta Heaven" 2005 Usher and Alicia Keys "My Boo" Destiny's Child "Lose My Breath" New Edition "Hot 2Nite" Luther Vandross and Beyoncé "The Closer I Get to You" 2006 Destiny's Child "Cater 2 U" Floetry "Supastar" Pussycat Dolls "Don't Cha" Nina Sky "Turnin' Me On" 2007 Gnarls Barkley "Crazy" The Isley Brothers Featuring Ronald Isley "Just Came Here to Chill" Jagged Edge "Good Luck Charm" The Pussycat Dolls "Stickwitu"
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