List of awards and nominations received by Ashanti

Ashanti awards and nominations

Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations American Music Awards 2 8 Billboard Music Awards 8 9 Grammy Awards 1 8 MTV Video Music Awards 0 6 Soul Train Music Awards 4 7
Totals
Awards won	35
Nominations	89

The following article documents the awards, nominations and accolades received by American singer, songwriter and actress Ashanti. ^[1][2][3]

Grammy Awards and nominations

Various wins and nominations

Listed by year, wins are indicated in Bold

Records/Achievements

Guinness Book of World Records

• She is most famous for her eponymous debut album Ashanti which featured the hit song "Foolish", and sold 503,000 copies in its first week of release in the USA in April 2002, a record-breaking feat. It was the highest first week sales for a female artist's debut ever.
• In the same week, she became the first female performer to simultaneously hold the top two places on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with "Foolish", and "What's Luv" (with Fat Joe).
• She broke records again by having three Top Ten songs (Foolish, What's Luv, and Always on Time (with Ja Rule) on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the same week. Only The Beatles have achieved this. Ironically, Ashanti wrote and sang background on the remix of "Ain't It Funny" sung by Jennifer Lopez which was also in the top 10 charts at the same time as "Foolish", "Always on Time" (with Ja Rule), and "What's Luv" (with Fat Joe) so the singer actually had four top 10 singles in the top ten.
• According to a report by Billboard.com in 2009, Ashanti has had the most top 10 songs (16 to date) on the R&B/Hip-hop charts by a female for that decade.

In 2002,^[9]

• Ashanti took home a record 8 billboard awards, winning all the categories she was nominated for.
• E!'s 25 Sexiest Women in Entertainment (Ranked: 23)
• FHM-Singapore's 100 Sexiest Women (Ranked: 95)
• Lycos' Top 10 Female Searches (Ranked: 17)
• Lycos' Top 10 Musician Searches for the First Half of 2002 (Ranked: 10)
• Rolling Stone magazine readers picked Ashanti as Best R&B Artist.
• She was one Askmen.com's singers of the week Ashanti.^[10]

In 2003,

• Maxim's 100 Sexiest Women (Ranked: 21)
• E!'s 25 Young Hollywood Stars (Ranked: 14)
• FHM-US's 100 Sexiest Women (Ranked: 76)
• FHM-France's 100 Sexiest Women (Ranked: 82)
• FHM-Netherlands' 100 Sexiest Women (Ranked: 71)
• FHM-Singapore's 100 Sexiest Women (Ranked: 99)
• Status World's Top 100 Female Celebrities (Ranked: 57)
• Spike/TNN 100 Most Irresistible Women (Ranked: 82)
• VH-1's 25 Greatest Rock Star Cameos (Ranked: 18)

In 2004,

• Ashanti was ranked at #63 on VH1’s list of The Greatest: 100 Hottest Hotties.^[11]
• Ashanti became the 1st African-American female to lead a national campaign for Herbal Essence.
• FHM-US's 100 Sexiest Women (Ranked: 32)
• FHM-Romania's 100 Sexiest Women (Ranked: 92)
• Maxim's 100 Sexiest Women (Ranked: 29)
• Real Access Top 24 for 2004 (Ranked: 15)

In 2005,

• Ashanti ranked at #13 on the Maxim Hot 100 List of 2005.
• Ashanti ranked #81 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005."
• BET's All Shades of Fine - 25 Hottest Women of the Past 25 Years (Ranked 14)
• Billboard's Top 100 Selling CD's (Ranked: 76)
• Blender Magazine's the Rock Goddess 50 (Ranked: 17)
• FHM-US's 100 Sexiest Women (Ranked: 81)
• Marc's List of Hottest Women (Ranked: 26)
• VH1's 50 Greatest Women of the Video Era (Ranked: 46)
• VH1's 100 Most Wanted Bodies (Ranked: 44)

In 2008,

• Maxim's 100 Sexiest Women (Ranked: 37)

In 2009,

• E!'s 25 Sexiest Pop Stars (Ranked: 19)

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