BET Award for Best New Artist

The BET Award for Best New Artist is given to an artist who made their debut the previous or same year of the awards ceremony. A former group member can be nominated for the award if they have made their solo debut. Controversy arose when Jennifer Hudson won the award in 2007 even though her only solo release at the time was a single of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"; her first album was scheduled for release in October 2007. Sam Smith is so far the only Caucasian artist to have won the award, winning it in 2015.

BET Awards for Best New Artist
CountryUnited States
Presented byBET Awards
First awarded2001
Currently held byRoddy Ricch (2020)
Websitehttp://www.bet.com/shows/bet-awards.html

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s
Year Artist Ref
2001
Nelly [1]
India Arie ‡
Lil' Bow Wow
Musiq
Jill Scott ‡
2002
Alicia Keys † [2]
Ashanti ‡
B2K
Craig David
Tweet
2003
50 Cent ‡ [3]
Floetry
Heather Headley ‡
Sean Paul ‡
Justin Timberlake
2004
Kanye West ‡ [4]
Chingy
Anthony Hamilton
Ruben Studdard
Pharrell Williams
2005
John Legend † [5]
Ciara ‡
Fantasia
The Game
Omarion
2006
Chris Brown ‡ [6]
Chamillionaire
Ne-Yo
Rihanna
Paul Wall
2007
Jennifer Hudson [7]
Corinne Bailey Rae ‡
Gnarls Barkley
Lupe Fiasco
Mims
2008
The-Dream [8]
Estelle
Flo Rida
Chrisette Michelle
Soulja Boy
2009
Keri Hilson ‡ [9]
Kid Cudi
Ryan Leslie
M.I.A.
Jazmine Sullivan ‡

2010s
Year Artist Ref
2010
Nicki Minaj ‡ [10]
Justin Bieber ‡
Melanie Fiona
Wale
Young Money
2011
Wiz Khalifa [11]
J. Cole ‡
Bruno Mars
Miguel
Willow Smith
2012
Big Sean [12]
ASAP Rocky
Diggy
Future
Meek Mill
2013
Kendrick Lamar ‡ [13]
Joey Badass
Azealia Banks
Trinidad James
The Weeknd
2014
August Alsina [14]
Ariana Grande
Rich Homie Quan
ScHoolboy Q
Mack Wilds
2015
Sam Smith † [15]
Dej Loaf
Fetty Wap
Bobby Shmurda
Rae Sremmurd
Tinashe
2016
Bryson Tiller [16]
Alessia Cara †
Andra Day
Kehlani
Tory Lanez
2017
Chance the Rapper † [17]
21 Savage
Cardi B
Khalid ‡
Young M.A
2018
SZA ‡ [18]
GoldLink
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
H.E.R. ‡
Daniel Caesar
2019
Lil Baby [19]
Blueface
City Girls
Juice Wrld
Queen Naija

2020s
Year Artist Ref
2020
Roddy Ricch [20]
DaniLeigh
Lil Nas X ‡
Pop Smoke
Summer Walker
YBN Cordae

References
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