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Every Grammys Best Gospel Album winner

14 ceremonies, 2012–2025. 9 different winners.

Best Gospel Album was first awarded in 2012, so it does not run the full 2000–2025 window.

It absorbed the traditional and contemporary R&B gospel album awards, and also took in the rock or rap gospel recordings that are not tracked here as their own category.

It took over from Best Traditional Gospel Album and Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album.

CeCe Winans ×3Kirk Franklin ×3Tye Tribbett ×2
One band per year, because no winner has gone back-to-back in the years on record. Colored by label; scroll sideways for the full run.
Kirk Franklin'12
Lecrae'13
Tye Tribbett'14
Erica Campbell'15
Israel & New Breed'16
Kirk Franklin'17
CeCe Winans'18
Tori Kelly'19
Kirk Franklin'20
PJ Morton'21
CeCe Winans'22
Maverick City Music and Kirk Franklin'23
Tye Tribbett'24
CeCe Winans'25
Wins by label
  1. Sony218%
  2. eOne19%
  3. Morton Recordings19%
  4. PureSprings19%
  5. Puresprings Gospel19%
  6. PureSprings Gospel19%
  7. Other436%

3 further wins have no label on record and are not counted in the 11 above.

3 of these 14 wins have no label on record, so the bar covers the other 11.

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2012–2025.

Most nominated, never won

  • Anita Wilson3 noms
  • Jonathan McReynolds3 noms
  • Ricky Dillard3 noms
  • William Murphy3 noms
  • Jekalyn Carr2 noms
  • Karen Clark Sheard2 noms

Most losses

  • Anita Wilson3L · 0W
  • Jonathan McReynolds3L · 0W
  • Ricky Dillard3L · 0W
  • William Murphy3L · 0W
  • Jekalyn Carr2L · 0W
  • Karen Clark Sheard2L · 0W

The full list

YearWinnerLabel
2025CeCe Winans (More Than This)
beat 4 others
  • Ricky Dillard (Choirmaster II (Live))
  • Melvin Crispell III (Covered Vol. 1)
  • Kirk Franklin (Father's Day)
  • Karen Clark Sheard (Still Karen)
PureSprings
2024Tye Tribbett (All Things New: Live in Orlando)
beat 4 others
  • Tasha Cobbs Leonard (Hymns (Live))
  • Erica Campbell (I Love You)
  • Maverick City Music (The Maverick Way)
  • Jonathan McReynolds (My Truth)
Unknown
2023Maverick City Music and Kirk Franklin (Kingdom Book One)unverified
beat 4 others
  • Tye Tribbett (All Things New)
  • Ricky Dillard (Breakthrough: The Exodus (Live))
  • DOE (Clarity)
  • Maranda Curtis (Die to Live)
Tribl/Fo Yo Soul/RCA Inspiration
2022CeCe Winans (Believe for It)
beat 4 others
  • Jekalyn Carr (Changing Your Story)
  • Jonathan McReynolds and Mali Music (Jonny X Mali: Live in LA)
  • Maverick City Music (Jubilee: Juneteenth Edition)
  • Tasha Cobbs Leonard (Royalty: Live at the Ryman)
Puresprings Gospel/Fair Trade Services
2021PJ Morton (Gospel According to PJ: From the Songbook of PJ Morton)
beat 4 others
  • Anthony Brown and group therAPy (2econd Wind: Ready)
  • Ricky Dillard (Choirmaster)
  • Kierra Sheard (Kierra)
  • Myron Butler (My Tribute)
Morton Recordings/Empire Records
2020Kirk Franklin (Long Live Love)
beat 4 others
  • Donald Lawrence presents the Tri-City Singers (Goshen)
  • William Murphy (Settle Here)
  • CeCe Winans (Something's Happening! A Christmas Album)
  • Gene Moore (Tunnel Vision)
RCA Inspiration/Fo Yo Soul
2019Tori Kelly (Hiding Place)
beat 4 others
  • Brian Courtney Wilson (A Great Work)
  • Jonathan McReynolds (Make Room)
  • Jekalyn Carr (One Nation Under God)
  • The Walls Group (The Other Side)
Capitol/Schoolboy
2018CeCe Winans (Let Them Fall in Love)
beat 4 others
  • Le'Andria (Bigger Than Me)
  • Marvin Sapp (Close)
  • Travis Greene (Crossover: Live from Music City)
  • Anita Wilson (Sunday Song)
PureSprings Gospel
2017Kirk Franklin (Losing My Religion)
beat 4 others
  • William Murphy (Demonstrate (Live))
  • Shirley Caesar (Fill This House)
  • Tim Bowman Jr. (Listen)
  • Todd Dulaney (A Worshipper's Heart (Live))
RCA Inspiration/RCA/Fo Yo Soul
2016Israel & New Breed (Covered: Alive in Asia (Live Deluxe))
beat 4 others
  • Karen Clark Sheard (Destined to Win (Live))
  • Jonathan McReynolds (Life Music: Stage Two)
  • Dorinda Clark-Cole (Living It)
  • Tasha Cobbs (One Place Live)
Unknown
2015Erica Campbell (Help)
beat 4 others
  • Ricky Dillard and New G (Amazing (Live))
  • Smokie Norful (Forever Yours)
  • Anita Wilson (Vintage Worship)
  • William McDowell (Withholding Nothing (Live))
eOne
2014Tye Tribbett (Greater Than (Live))
beat 4 others
  • Bishop Paul S. Morton (Best Days Yet)
  • Donald Lawrence (Best for Last: 20 Year Celebration Vol. 1)
  • William Murphy (God Chaser (Live))
  • Tasha Cobbs (Grace (Live))
Unknown
2013Lecrae (Gravity)
beat 4 others
  • Marvin Sapp (I Win)
  • James Fortune and FIYA (Identity)
  • Israel & New Breed (Jesus at the Center: Live)
  • Anita Wilson (Worship Soul)
Reach Records
2012Kirk Franklin (Hello Fear)
beat 4 others
  • Trin-I-Tee 5:7 (Angel & Chanelle (Deluxe Edition))
  • Andrae Crouch (The Journey)
  • Kim Burrell (The Love Album)
  • Mary Mary (Something Big)
Verity/Jive/Fo Yo Soul

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