Teyana Taylor Voted Most Wins for ‘UB Honors’

The winners for UB Honors 2025 have been calculated.

This year was record breaking numbers for votes!

Teyana Taylor was the big winner, winning four of her five nominations.

Teyana‘s wins included Best R&B Female Artist and Best R&B Album of The Year for “Escape Room.”

Chris Brown followed with also four wins, Chris dominated every category he was nominated. Including Best R&B Male Artist and Hottest Collaboration Single of The Year for “It Depends” featuring Bryson Tiller.

SZA won two, for Hottest Collaboration Single of The Year for “Luther” with Kendrick Lamar and was runner-up for Best Actress | Film for her breakout role in “One of Them Days.”

Hip Hop artist GloRilla also was the winner of two UB Honors, while Metro Boomin won Producer of The Year.

TV & Film fans voted over 60% more than music ones.

With some surprises, “Divorced Sista’s,” Porscha Coleman won Best Actress | Television, with over a 35% landslide. As well as DeVon Franklin winning Best Actor | Television, by over 25%.

“Tyler Perry’s Divorced Sistas” cleaned up in the television nods, by also winning Best Television Series.

In film, “SINNERS” was the big winner, winning “Best Film” and Michael B. Jordan and Wunmi Mosaku won for best actor and actress.

This year for the first time, we’re also including the Runners-Up! With so many votes and being that so many categories were extremely close this year.

There are two ties this year and for the first time, a three-way tie was calculated.

Check Out the Full List Below!

Best R&B Female Artist
Ann Nesby
Ledisi
Teyana Taylor
Coco Jones
Ella Mai

Best R&B Male Artist
Chris Brown
Kevin Ross
Leven Kali
Q Parker
GIVEON

Best Rap Artist
Gunna
Clipse
Rema
GloRilla
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Best New R&B/Hip-Hop Artist
Journey Montana
Leven Kali
Tanya Nolan
Lee Vasi
Grant Sing

Best Urban Up-tempo Single of The Year
“Sleepwalking” – Leven Kali
“Comfortable” – Steven Christopher feat. Soraya Aylin
“Shook One” – Tiana Major9
“Mic On” – Alex Isley
“do what i say” – kwn

Best Mid-tempo Single of The Year
“Love You Too” – Ledisi
“Kissing in Public” – Destin Conrad
“Love In The Middle” – Kevin Ross
“Taste” – Coco Jones
“Baby (Is it a Crime)” – Rema

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Best R&B Ballad of The Year | [TIE]
“My Man” – Ann Nesby
“GPS” – Lee Vasi
“OpenYourEyes” – LÉA THE LEOX
“Toot Toot” – Tweet
“Keep On Lovin” – Q Parker

Best R&B/Single of The Year
“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Stephanie Mills
“Bed of Roses” – Teyana Taylor
“Love In The Middle” – Kevin Ross
“Boots on the Ground” – 803Fresh
“Burning Blue” – Mariah the Scientist

Best Hip-Hop Single of The Year | 3-Way TIE
“Aww Shit” – Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
“Money On Money” – Young Thug feat. Future
“HIM ALL ALONG” – Gunna
“So Be It” – Clipse
“LIKE WEEZY” – Playboi Carti

Hottest Collaboration Single of The Year
“So Distracted” – Eric Benét and Chanté Moore
“Thankful” – Trae Tha Truth feat. Yolanda Adams and Chance The Rapper
“Luther” – Kendrick Lamar and SZA
“It Depends” – Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller
“Boots on the Ground (Where Them Fans At)” – 803Fresh feat. Fantasia

Best Visual of The Year
“Burning Blue” – Mariah the Scientist
“Boots on the Ground” – 803Fresh
“Residuals” – Chris Brown
“Typa” – GloRilla
“braveface” – Halle

Producer of The Year
DJ Camper
Metro Boomin
DJ Mustard
D’Mile
Sammy Soso

Best R&B Album of The Year | Runner-Up TIE
“The Crown” – Ledisi
“ANNiversary” – Ann Nesby
“4th & Long” – LARRENWONG
“Escape Room” – Teyana Taylor
“LOVE UPTEMPO: MAX” – Kevin Ross

Best Rap/Hip-Hop Album of The Year
“Radio Armageddon” – Chuck D
“The Last Wun” – Gunna
“Let God Sort Em Out” – Clipse
“Music” – Playboi Carti
“Tha Carter VI” – Lil Wayne

Best Gospel Artist of The Year
CeCe Winans
Solomon Ray
Tasha Cobbs Leonard
Maverick City Music
Dante Bowe

Artist of The Year
Teyana Taylor
Ledisi
GloRilla
Kevin Ross
Chris Brown

Best Television Series
The Family Business: New Orleans
Godfather of Harlem
House of David
Encore
Tyler Perry’s Divorced Sistas

Best Film
SINNERS
One of Them Days
The Final Play
Highest 2 Lowest
One Battle After Another

Best Actress | Television
Letoya Luckett – “Tyler Perry’s Divorced Sistas”
Kron Moore – “The Oval”
Porscha Coleman – “Tyler Perry’s Divorced Sistas”
Ilfenesh Hadera – “Godfather of Harlem”
Crystal Renee Hayslett – “Sistas” and “Zatima”

Best Actor | Television
Devale Ellis – “Sistas” and “Zatima”
Elvis Nolasco – “Godfather of Harlem”
Brandon T. Jackson – “The Family Business: New Orleans”
DeVon Franklin – “Tyler Perry’s Divorced Sistas”
David Banner – “The Family Business: New Orleans”

Best Actress | Film
SZA – “One of Them Days”
Chase Infiniti – “One Battle After Another”
Teyana Taylor – “One Battle After Another”
KeKe Palmer – “The Pickup”
Wunmi Mosaku – “SINNERS”

Best Actor | Film
Michael B. Jordan – “SINNERS”
Denzel Washington – “Highest 2 Lowest”
Jeremy Pargo – “The Final Play”
Leonardo DiCaprio – “One Battle After Another”
Marlon Wayans – “HIM”

Best Network/Streamer
BET
We TV
Brandon TV
Prime
Apple +