Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album

This award combines recordings that were previously submitted for the Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album, Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album and Best Traditional Gospel Album. The Recording Academy decided to make a distinction between Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) and Gospel music after determining that there were "two distinct wings to the gospel house: Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) and Urban or Soul Gospel. Additionally, it was determined that the word "Gospel" tends to conjure up the images and sounds of traditional soul gospel and not CCM. With this in mind, it was decided not only to rename each of the categories, but also the entire [genre] field. [It] was determined that album and songwriting categories are of highest importance; Gospel and CCM each now have one category for each".

• Name — Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album • Awarded For — Quality gospel albums • Presenter — National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences • Country — United States • Year — 2012 • Holder — Darrel Walls & PJ Morton – Heart of Mine (2026) • Website — grammy.com The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality albums in the Gospel music genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position". The Best Gospel Album award was one of the new categories created after a major overhaul of the Grammy Awards categories for 2012. This award combines recordings that were previously submitted for the Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album, Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album and Best Traditional Gospel Album. The Recording Academy decided to make a distinction between Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) and Gospel music after determining that there were "two distinct wings to the gospel house: Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) and Urban or Soul Gospel. Additionally, it was determined that the word "Gospel" tends to conjure up the images and sounds of traditional soul gospel and not CCM. With this in mind, it was decided not only to rename each of the categories, but also the entire [genre] field. [It] was determined that album and songwriting categories are of highest importance; Gospel and CCM each now have one category for each". As a result, the previous gospel album categories were combined into Best Gospel Album (for traditional or contemporary/R&B gospel music) and Best Contemporary Christian Music Album.

• Illustration — Four-time winner Kirk Franklin. • Illustration — 2015 winner Erica Campbell. • Illustration — 2021 and 2026 winner PJ Morton.

• Year — Work — Artist • 2012 • Hello Fear — Kirk Franklin • Angel & Chanelle (Deluxe Edition) — Trin-I-Tee 5:7 • The Journey — Andrae Crouch • The Love Album — Kim Burrell • Something Big — Mary Mary • 2013 • Gravity — Lecrae • I Win — Marvin Sapp • Identity — James Fortune and FIYA • Jesus at the Center: Live — Israel & New Breed • Worship Soul — Anita Wilson • 2014 • Greater Than (Live) — Tye Tribbett • Best Days Yet — Bishop Paul S. Morton • Best for Last: 20 Year Celebration Vol. 1 — Donald Lawrence • God Chaser (Live) — William Murphy • Grace (Live) — Tasha Cobbs • 2015 • Help — Erica Campbell • Amazing (Live) — Ricky Dillard and New G • Forever Yours — Smokie Norful • Vintage Worship — Anita Wilson • Withholding Nothing (Live) — William McDowell • 2016 • Covered: Alive in Asia (Live Deluxe) — Israel & New Breed • Destined to Win (Live) — Karen Clark Sheard • Life Music: Stage Two — Jonathan McReynolds • Living It — Dorinda Clark-Cole • One Place Live — Tasha Cobbs • 2017 • Losing My Religion — Kirk Franklin • Demonstrate (Live) — William Murphy • Fill This House — Shirley Caesar • Listen — Tim Bowman Jr. • A Worshipper's Heart (Live) — Todd Dulaney • 2018 • Let Them Fall in Love — CeCe Winans • Bigger Than Me — Le'Andria • Close — Marvin Sapp • Crossover: Live from Music City — Travis Greene • Sunday Song — Anita Wilson • 2019 • Hiding Place — Tori Kelly • A Great Work — Brian Courtney Wilson • Make Room — Jonathan McReynolds • One Nation Under God — Jekalyn Carr • The Other Side — The Walls Group

• Year — Work — Artist • 2020 • Long Live Love — Kirk Franklin • Goshen — Donald Lawrence presents the Tri-City Singers • Settle Here — William Murphy • Something's Happening! A Christmas Album — CeCe Winans • Tunnel Vision — Gene Moore • 2021 • Gospel According to PJ: From the Songbook of PJ Morton — PJ Morton • 2econd Wind: Ready — Anthony Brown and group therAPy • Choirmaster — Ricky Dillard • Kierra — Kierra Sheard • My Tribute — Myron Butler • 2022 • Believe for It — CeCe Winans • Changing Your Story — Jekalyn Carr • Jonny X Mali: Live in LA — Jonathan McReynolds and Mali Music • Jubilee: Juneteenth Edition — Maverick City Music • Royalty: Live at the Ryman — Tasha Cobbs Leonard • 2023 • Kingdom Book One — Maverick City Music and Kirk Franklin • All Things New — Tye Tribbett • Breakthrough: The Exodus (Live) — Ricky Dillard • Clarity — DOE • Die to Live — Maranda Curtis • 2024 • All Things New: Live in Orlando — Tye Tribbett • Hymns (Live) — Tasha Cobbs Leonard • I Love You — Erica Campbell • The Maverick Way — Maverick City Music • My Truth — Jonathan McReynolds • 2025 • More Than This — CeCe Winans • Choirmaster II (Live) — Ricky Dillard • Covered Vol. 1 — Melvin Crispell III • Father's Day — Kirk Franklin • Still Karen — Karen Clark Sheard • 2026 • Heart of Mine — Darrell Walls and PJ Morton • Live Breathe Fight — Tamela Mann • Only on the Road (Live) — Tye Tribbett • Sunny Days — Yolanda Adams • Tasha — Tasha Cobbs Leonard • Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.