2013 Soul Train nominees include Timberlake, Thicke

The Soul Train Awards are headed back to Las Vegas, it was announced Tuesday; and this year's nominees include a number of A-listers.

Rising hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar earned the most nominations for the R&B honor, which will be taped Nov. 8 at the Orleans Arena. Lamar collected six nods, including new artist and song and album of the year; he's closely followed by Justin Timberlake, Robin Thicke, Miguel, Chris Brown and Tamar Braxton, with five each.

Actor and comedian Anthony Anderson will air the show, scheduled for broadcast on CENTRIC and BET Dec. 1 at 9 PM ET/PT. A complete list of nominees follows:

Best New Artist

Bridget Kelly

K. Michelle

Kendrick Lamar

Tamar Braxton

TGT

Centric Certified Award

Joss Stone

Luke James

Lyfe Jennings

Solange

Stacy Barthe

Talib Kweli

Best Gospel/Inspirational Performance

Break Every Chain - Tasha Cobbs

Confessions - Lecrae

Every Praise - Hezekiah Walker

God Will Make Away - Shirley Caesar

If He Did It Before…Same God - Tye Tribbett

Life & Favor - John P. Kee & New Life

Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year

Bad - Wale feat. Tiara Thomas

High School - Nicki Minaj feat. Lil Wayne

Holy Grail - Jay Z feat. Justin Timberlake

Poetic Justice - Kendrick Lamar feat. Drake

Power Trip - J. Cole feat. Miguel

Started From the Bottom - Drake

The Chaka Khan Best R&B/Soul Female Artist

Alicia Keys

Chrisette Michele

Fantasia

Janelle Monáe

Kelly Rowland

Tamar Braxton

Best R&B/Soul Male Artist

Bruno Mars

Charlie Wilson

Chris Brown

John Legend

Miguel

Robin Thicke

Album of the Year

The 20/20 Experience – Justin Timberlake

Good Kid, m.A.A.d City – Kendrick Lamar

Kaleidoscope Dream - Miguel

Magna Carta… Holy Grail – Jay Z

The Side Effects of You - Fantasia

Unapologetic - Rihanna

Song of the Year

Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke feat. Pharrell & T.I.

Diamonds - Rihanna

Fine China – Chris Brown

Love and War – Tamar Braxton

Poetic Justice – Kendrick Lamar feat. Drake

Suit & Tie – Justin Timberlake feat. Jay Z

The Ashford and Simpson Songwriter's Award

Crooked Smile – J.Cole (Jermaine Cole, Meleni Smith)

Fire We Make – Alicia Keys feat. Maxwell (Gary Clark Jr., Warren Felder, Alicia Keys, Andrew Wansel)

Lose to Win – Fantasia (Francine Golde, Dennis Lambert, Andrea Martin, Walter Orange, Harmony Samuels)

Love & War – Tamar Braxton (Tamar Braxton, Darhyl Camper Jr., LaShawn Daniels, Makeba Riddick)

Mirrors – Justin Timberlake (James Fauntleroy, Jerome Harmon, Timothy Mosley, Justin Timberlake)

Q.U.E.E.N. – Janelle Monae feat. Erykah Badu (Roman GianArthur Irvin , Dr. Nathaniel Irvin III, Charles Joseph II, Janelle Monáe Robinson, Kellis Parker Jr.)

Best Dance Performance

Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke

Body Party - Ciara

Fine China – Chris Brown

Q.U.E.E.N. – Janelle Monáe feat. Erykah Badu

Suit & Tie – Justin Timberlake feat. Jay Z

Treasure – Bruno Mars

Video of the Year

Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke feat. Pharrell & T.I. (Diane Martel)

Fine China – Chris Brown (Chris Brown, Sylvain White)

Love & War – Tamar Braxton (Walid Azami)

Poetic Justice – Kendrick Lamar feat. Drake (The Lil Homie, Dave Free, and Dangeroo Kipawaa)

Q.U.E.E.N. – Janelle Monae feat. Erykah Badu (Alan Ferguson)

Started from the Bottom – Drake (Director X)

Best Collaboration

Alicia Keys feat. Maxwell – Fire We Make

Brandy feat. Chris Brown – Put It Down

J.Cole feat. Miguel – Power Trip

Janelle Monae feat. Erykah Badu – Q.U.E.E.N.

Miguel feat. Kendrick Lamar – How Many Drinks

Robin Thicke feat. Pharrell & T.I. – Blurred Lines

Wale feat. Sam Dew – LoveHate Thing

Best International Performance (CENTRICTV.com)

Differentology - Bunji Garlin

The Fog - Machel Montano

Next To Me - Emeli Sande

Personally - P-Square

Ur Waist – Iyanya

Best Traditional Jazz Performance (CENTRICTV.com)

George Benson feat. Wynton Marsalis – Unforgettable

Jeffrey Osborne feat. Chaka Khan – Baby it's Cold Outside

Tony Bennett feat. Marc Anthony – For Once In My Life

Nicole Henry – Waiting In Vain

Terence Blanchard – Pet Step Sister's Theme Song

Best Contemporary Jazz Performance (CENTRICTV.com)

Jose James - Trouble

Boney James feat. Rick Braun – Batucada (The Beat)

Michael Bublé – It's A Beautiful Day

Dave Koz – Got To Get You Into My Life

George Duke – Missing You

Best Independent R&B/Soul Performance (CENTRICTV.com)

Ashanti - Never Should Have

Brian McKnight - Sweeter

Kenny Lattimore - Find A Way

Maysa - Love Me Good

Raheem DeVaughn - Love Connection

Ronald Isley – Dinner And A Movie

http://www.usatoday.com/s...n/2826109/

Disappointed that Mavis Staples is not nominated.

There's no Lifetime Achievement Award this year?????????????????????

Kendrick has been around since 2011... so best new artist?

Back to Vegas. Were they in ATL last year?

whatever happend to the "best group" category?

Awesome that Soul Train named an award category after the Beautiful Queen of Funk Ms. Chaka Khan. They need MORE categories. The Soul Train Awards has the BACKING of Black radio, so it can return to the "glory days" if we're all serious about it. We need B-Girl, Jigga, Kanye & others to start performing and help put it back on a SOLID foundation.

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For Example THREE Categories: Best Soul Album of the Year, Best Soul Female & Best Soul Male..

Gunsnhalen said:

Kendrick has been around since 2011... so best new artist?

Well that's not surprising..The GRAMMYS & The American Music Awards do the same nominating process...Tamar's got Solo Albums under her belt but NOW she's gained some Street/Radio/Media credibility...I like that Award shows consider whether or not the Artist had little to NO "visibility/Media/radio play" as far as over-looking the artists past works. A lot of unknown Artists drop albums every day but their work will NEVER get radio play and certainly won't chart on anything....So I feel Award shows are being VERY fair to all the Artists whenever they nominate "Best New Artists"...

What we need is the industry to embrace the REAL soul artists and we need to bring the REAL soul artists back in the for front. Soul train is trying so I am not knocking them.... Why bring artists that are not SOUL and dont make SOUL music on the award show? That defeats the whole purpose of the award show. We need to promote the soul artists and give them a platform where they can be acknowledged. Grammys, Billboards, Ama's etc are not acknowledging the soul artists.Nice to see Fantasia, Janelle Monae, Raheem Devaughn, Solange, Chrisette Michelle, Charlie Wilson, Joss Stone and Bruno Mars nominated.

mjscarousal said:

What we need is the industry to embrace the REAL soul artists and we need to bring the REAL soul artists back in the for front. Soul train is trying so I am not knocking them.... Why bring artists that are not SOUL and dont make SOUL music on the award show? That defeats the whole purpose of the award show. We need to promote the soul artists and give them a platform where they can be acknowledged. Grammys, Billboards, Ama's etc are not acknowledging the soul artists.Nice to see Fantasia, Janelle Monae, Raheem Devaughn, Solange, Chrisette Michelle, Charlie Wilson, Joss Stone and Bruno Mars nominated.

Solange is pretty damn good! she is way better than her sister in terms if lyrics and instrumentals.