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Her Award honors motivational and empowering songs that center women. The award was first awarded in 2006 as the BET J Cool Like That Award to honor outstanding

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and traditional R&B artists. The name of the award was changed when the BET J channel was rebranded as Centric in 2009, and again in 2018 when Centric was rebranded as

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. Until 2012, artists themselves were nominated, but in 2013, BET began nominating artists with a respective song. Beyoncé and

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are the most awarded artists in this category with two wins.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold. *BET J Cool Like That Award (2006-2007) *BET J Award (2008-2009) *BET Centric Award (2010-2017) *BET Her Award (2018–present)

Winners and nominees

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