Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album

The Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards for quality works in the reggae genre. Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Recording, the honor was presented to artists for eligible songs or albums. The Jamaican group Black Uhuru received the first award in 1985. Beginning with the 1992 ceremony, the name of the award was changed to Best Reggae Album. Starting in 2002, awards were often presented to the engineers, mixers, and/or producers in addition to the performing artists. According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, eligible works are vocal or instrumental reggae albums "containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded music", including roots reggae, dancehall and ska music.
At the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2020, Koffee became the youngest person and the first woman to win the award. Ziggy Marley holds the record for the most wins in this category, with seven wins as of 2017. The current recipient of the award is the Bob Marley film soundtrack One Love.

Recipients

Year	Performing artist	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1985	Black Uhuru
1986
1987	Steel Pulse
1988
1989	Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
1990	Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
1991	Bunny Wailer
1992	Shabba Ranks
1993	Shabba Ranks
1994	Inner Circle
1995	Bunny Wailer
1996	Shaggy
1997	Bunny Wailer
1998	Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
1999	Sly and Robbie
2000	Burning Spear
2001	Beenie Man
2002
2003
2004
2005	Toots and the Maytals
2006
2007
2008
2009	Burning Spear
2010
2011
2012	Stephen Marley	Revelation Pt. 1 – The Root of Life
2013	Jimmy Cliff	Rebirth
2014	Ziggy Marley	In Concert
2015	Ziggy Marley	Fly Rasta
2016	Morgan Heritage	Strictly Roots
2017	Ziggy Marley	Ziggy Marley
2018	Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley	Stony Hill
2019	Sting & Shaggy	44/876
2020	Koffee	Rapture
2021	Toots and the Maytals	Got to Be Tough
2022	SOJA	Beauty in the Silence
2023	Kabaka Pyramid	The Kalling
2024	Julian Marley & Antaeus	Colors of Royal
2025	Various artists	Bob Marley: One Love – Music Inspired By The Film
2026	Winners TBA on 1 February 2026		Lila Iké - Treasure Self Love Vybz Kartel - Heart & Soul Keznamdi - BLXXD & FYAH Mortimer - From Within Jesse Royal - No Place Like Home

Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

2010 controversy

's nomination for the 2010 award sparked controversy and protest due to homophobic lyrics within his music. Banton's most controversial song, released in 1988, is "Boom, Bye Bye", which "promote the murder of gay men by shooting or burning". Following the artist's nomination, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center placed an advertisement in the Daily Variety encouraging Grammy officials to denounce music that "promotes or celebrates violence against any group of people". The advertisement, which took the form of a letter signed by gay rights and civil rights activists, asserted that honoring Banton was awarding "extraordinary hateful work". The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences responded by insisting that artists are honored for quality music "regardless of politics". Banton has been quoted as saying that he sees "no end to the war" between himself and gay men. The 2010 award was presented to Stephen Marley. Banton was nominated in 2011 for the album Before the Dawn. Other reggae musicians that have been accused of promoting anti-gay lyrics include Beenie Man, Elephant Man, Shabba Ranks and Sizzla.