BET Award for Best New Artist
| BET Awards for Best New Artist | |
|---|---|
 Leon Thomas III is the most recent recipient | |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | BET Awards |
| First award | 2001 |
| Currently held by | Leon Thomas III (2025) |
| Website | [1] |
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.
Winners and nominees
[edit]Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
- Grammy Award for Best New Artist winning artist – †
- Grammy Award for Best New Artist nominated artist –
Award Milestone
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Sam Smith became the first and only non-black person to win the Award in 2015. He also became the first Non -American to Win this.
Tyla became the first African to win this award in 2024.
2000s
[edit]2010s
[edit]2020s
[edit]References
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- ^ "Winners". BET. Archived from the original on May 17, 2019.
- ^ "2020 BET Awards". Awards and Winners. Archived from the original on June 16, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2020.