Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Single New Artist of the Year

Entertainment: Music Awards: Billboard

The Billboard Awards were first presented in 1990. Since that time a number of awards are no longer presented, new awards began and other awards morphed into different categories. We attempted to figure out which awards morphed or combined and thus those categories are certainly not officially.

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6

1995

Brandy (Norwood)

Vocalist

11.11% (2 of 18 votes)

7

1998

Next (Group)

Vocalists

0% (0 of 0 votes)

4

2000

Sisqo

Vocalist

32.03% (41 of 128 votes)

5

2001

Alicia Keys

Musician

28.09% (25 of 89 votes)

1

2003

Beyonce Knowles

Vocalist

70.32% (1111 of 1580 votes)

2

2004

Kanye West

Vocalist

61.07% (4286 of 7018 votes)

3

2006

Chris Brown

Vocalist

60.90% (81 of 133 votes)