# List of awards and nominations received by CeCe Peniston

The following is a list of music awards and/or nominations earned by the U.S. singer-songwriter CeCe Peniston, along with her music recording sales certifications and entries in the year-end charts.
Over her over twenty years long career, Peniston released only three solo studio albums: Finally (1992), Thought 'Ya Knew (1994) and I'm Movin' On (1996) - each on A&M Records. She was still active, though, in recording singles also the last decade. Her fourth set CeCe, originally slated for its release in August 2011 on the independent label West Swagg Music Group, was not released by now.
Apart from being a Soul Train Music Award-nominee in 1993, Peniston won three ASCAP awards, three WMC awards, one Billboard Music Video Award and a BMI Award (all for her debut album). She topped one year-end chart as Top Dance Music Club Play Artist of 1994 and received five sales certifications.
Before entering the music industry, Peniston participated in beauty competitions and was crowned Miss Black Arizona in 1989, and Miss Galaxy in 1990. In addition, she was honored by the Governor's Key to the State of Arizona, and inducted into the Phoenix College Hall of Fame.

## Music awards and nominations
### ASCAP Awards

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a not-for-profit performance rights organization that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly. Peniston won three awards:
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Song of the Year | Won |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Pop Songwriter of the Year | Won |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Most Performed Song of the Year | Won |

#### Notes

* A ^ Steve Hurley received two ASCAP Writer's Awards for the songs recorded with Peniston. One for "Keep On Walkin'", while two years later another for "I'm Not Over You".

### Billboard Music Video Awards

The Billboard Music Awards are sponsored by Billboard magazine. The awards are based on sales data by Nielsen SoundScan and radio information by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. Peniston holds one award:
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Best New Artist – Dance | Won |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Best Female Artist – Dance | Nominated |
| 1992 | "Keep On Walkin'" | Best Female Artist – R&B/Rap | Nominated |

#### Notes

* B ^ Claude Borenzweig, the director of "Finally" music video, won the category Best Director - Dance.

### BMI Awards

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed. Peniston received one award:
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 1993 | "Finally" | Urban Award of Achievement | Won | |

### Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the United States. Peniston was not nominated. However, two remixes of her own compositions, "Nobody Else" and "He Loves Me 2" (#24 on the US Dance), both co-written and performed by herself, brought the four time Grammy-nominee Steve "Silk" Hurley his first two nominations as Remixer of the Year, Non-Classical (in 1999 and in 2000).

### Soul Train Music Awards

The Soul Train Music Awards is an annual award show aired in national broadcast syndication that honors the best in African American music and entertainment established in 1987. Peniston was nominated once (but lost in favor of the album What's the 411? by Mary J. Blige):
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 1993 | Finally | Best R&B/Soul Album – Female | Nominated | |

### VH1 Awards

VH1: 100 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time was a five-part series compiled by the music channel in 2000 that tracked mostly the disco era. The show, hosted by Paula Abdul, featured interviews, original commentaries, archival clips and rare concert footage.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 2000 | "Finally" | Greatest Dance Song | Nominated | |

#### Notes

* C ^ The series won Gloria Gaynor's hit "I Will Survive" from 1979. "Finally" finished as the 29th. In 2006, the Slant Magazine published its own list of 100 Greatest Dance Songs, Peniston was not included though.

### WMC Awards

The Winter Music Conference (WMC) is a weeklong electronic music conference that is aimed at professionals such as artists, DJs, record label representatives (A&R), producers, promoters, radio and the media. Peniston scored three awards:
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Best New Dance Artist | Won |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Best Dance Artist – Solo | Won |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Best 12" Dance Record | Won |

## Music recording sales certifications

Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies. The number of sales or shipments required for a silver, gold, (multi-)platinum or diamond threshold depends on the population of the territory in which the title is released. These certificates are not automatic; the record label must pay a fee to have carried out an audit into the release in question.

### BPI certifications

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is the UK record industry's trade association. The level of the award varies and certificates are usually awarded on the basis of the amount of units the release has shipped, rather than the amount it has sold. Peniston received two certifications:
| Year | Nominated work | Format | Award | Quota | Result | Result |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Single | Silver | 200,000 | Certified | |
| 1992 | Finally | Album | Silver | 60,000 | Certified | |

### CRIA certifications

The Music Canada, formerly known as Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), represents the interests of Canadian companies that create, manufacture and market sound recordings. Similarly to the BPI, they provide audio or video certifications, using only different thresholds. Peniston received one certified award:
| Year | Nominated work | Format | Award | Quota | Result | Result |
| 1992 | Finally | Album | Gold | 50,000 | Certified | |

### RIAA certifications

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) operates an award program for the releases that sell a large(r) number of copies. Peniston received two certifications:
| Year | Nominated work | Format | Award | Quota | Result | Result |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Single | Gold | 500,000 | Certified | |
| 1992 | Finally | Album | Gold | 500,000 | Certified | |

## Year-end charts

Year-end charts are usually calculated by an inverse-point system based solely on a title's performance during any given chart year.

### Australia
#### ARIA

ARIA singles/albums chart is issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association, and the charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in the country. Top 100 End of Year chart profiles the whole year in music.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Top Pop Singles | #99 | |
| 2008 | "Finally 2008" | Top Club Tracks | #17 | |

#### Kent Music Report

Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums, compiled by David Kent from 1974 to 1998. Afterwards, RIAA, who had been using the report under license for a number of years, chose to produce their own charts as the 'ARIA Charts'.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Top Singles | #57 | |

### Canada
#### MuchMusic Countdown

MuchMusic Countdown, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola (as the Coca-Cola Countdown) is a ninety-minute music video program block aired on Canadian music television station MuchMusic.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 1991 | "Finally" | Top Singles | #66 | |

#### RPM

The Canadian singles/albums chart was originally published by magazine RPM. Since November 2000, the Jam! Canoe website publishes a comprehensive collection of the official Canadian record charts (as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan). Peniston entered a RPM Year-End Dance/Urban chart:
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 1991 | "Finally" | Top Dance/Urban Singles | #14 | |

### Netherlands
#### Nederlandse Top 40

Dutch Top 40 is one of the three official singles charts in the Netherlands. Apart from Single Top 100, the Top 40 and Mega Top 50 include airplay data (i.e. the more often a song is played on the radio, the higher it is placed also in the chart). Peniston scored in one Dutch singles year-end chart (compiled by the Top 40 list) of 1992 with two her songs:
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Top Pop Singles | #60 | |
| 1992 | "We Got a Love Thang" | Top Pop Singles | #79 | |

### United Kingdom
#### Music Week

UK Top 75 is compiled by The Official Charts Company (OCC) and published in Music Week magazine. The full list of Top 200 selling singles/albums in the United Kingdom is published exclusively in ChartsPlus. Unlike the U.S. charts, no airplay statistics are used for the UK list.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1992 | Herself | Top Selling Singles Artists | #20 |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Top Selling Singles | #41 |
| 1992 | "We Got a Love Thang" | Top Selling Singles | #88 |
| 1992 | "Keep On Walkin'" | Top Selling Singles | #121 |

### United States
#### American Top 40

American Top 40 is an international independent radio program that counts down the forty most popular songs in the United States of America. However apart from the US, the show is distributed by Premiere Radio Networks also in Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Singapore, China, India, the United Kingdom, Malaysia and several other territories. The AT40 charts are based on Mediabase data, published each Tueasday in USA Today. From 1990 to 1994, AT40 compiled its own year-end charts, which were very close to Billboard's, actually.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Top Pop Singles | #10 |
| 1992 | "Keep On Walkin'" | Top Pop Singles | #46 |
| 1992 | "We Got a Love Thang" | Top Pop Singles | #79 |

#### Billboard

The U.S. Billboard Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album's performance in the United States, based upon the Billboard magazine charts during any given chart year. Peniston topped one U.S. end of year chart, being nominated in total twenty-nine times:
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1991 | "Finally" | Top Dance (Music) Club Play Singles | #25 |
| 1991 | "Finally" | Top Dance Music 12-Inch Singles Sales | #42 |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Top Pop Singles | #20 |
| 1992 | "We Got a Love Thang" | Top Pop Singles | #97 |
| 1992 | "Keep On Walkin'" | Top Pop Singles | #61 |
| 1992 | "Keep On Walkin'" | Top R&B Singles | #37 |
| 1992 | Finally | Top R&B Albums | #29 |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Top Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sale | #48 |
| 1992 | "We Got a Love Thang" | Top Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sale | #20 |
| 1992 | "We Got a Love Thang" | Top Dance Music Club Play Singles | #16 |
| 1992 | "Keep On Walkin'" | Top Dance Music Club Play Singles | #32 |
| 1994 | Herself | Top Pop Singles Artists | #73 |
| 1994 | Herself | Top Pop Singles Artists - Female | #14 |
| 1994 | Herself | Top R&B Artists | #23 |
| 1994 | Herself | Top R&B Artists - Female | #7 |
| 1994 | Herself | Top R&B Singles Artists | #15 |
| 1994 | "I'm Not Over You" | Top R&B Singles | #32 |
| 1994 | "I'm in the Mood" | Top R&B Singles | #42 |
| 1994 | "I'm in the Mood" | Top R&B Singles Airplay | #31 |
| 1994 | "I'm Not Over You" | Top R&B Singles Airplay | #32 |
| 1994 | "I'm Not Over You" | Top R&B Singles Sales | #68 |
| 1994 | Thought 'Ya Knew | Top R&B Albums | #71 |
| 1994 | Herself | Top Dance Music Club Play Artists | #1 |
| 1994 | Herself | Top Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales Artists | #15 |
| 1994 | "I'm Not Over You" | Top Dance Music Club Play Singles | #9 |
| 1994 | "Hit by Love" | Top Dance Music Club Play Singles | #24 |
| 1994 | "I'm in the Mood" | Top Dance Music Club Play Singles | #44 |
| 1994 | "I'm in the Mood" | Top Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales | #42 |
| 2001 | "Lifetime to Love" | Top Dance Music Club Play Singles | #30 |

#### Cashbox

Cashbox, the most prominent competitor of Billboard and Record World (previously known as Music Vendor), was a weekly magazine that published charts of song popularity in the United States of America.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Top Pop Singles | #73 | |
| 1992 | "Keep On Walkin'" | Top Pop Singles | #100 | |

#### Club Chart

Club Chart is a U.S. list of Top 50 dance music/electronic songs. The chart is compiled monthly by a panel of DJs from across the States since 2003, and published via DanceMusic.about.com, an online resource.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 2007 | "Shame Shame Shame" | Top Club Singles | #85 | |

#### Notes

* D ^ The song shared the 85th position in the Club Year-End chart with Nelly Furtado's hit Maneater in common.

#### Record Research

Record Research Inc. was founded by the world-renowned musicologist Joel Whitburn who, along with a team of researchers, examines in detail all of Billboard's music and video charts in addition. His annual pop listings therefore differ.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1992 | Herself | Top Pop Artists | #9 |
| 1992 | "Finally" | Top Pop Singles | #35 |
| 1992 | "We Got a Love Thang" | Top Pop Singles | #105 |
| 1992 | "Keep On Walkin'" | Top Pop Singles | #89 |
| 1992 | "Inside That I Cried" | Top Pop Singles | #350 |
| 1992 | "Crazy Love" | Top Pop Singles | #362 |
| 1994 | "I'm in the Mood" | Top Pop Singles | #122 |
| 1994 | "I'm Not Over You" | Top Pop Singles | #152 |
| 1994 | "Hit by Love" | Top Pop Singles | #314 |
| 1996 | "Movin' On" | Top Pop Singles | #271 |

#### Traxsource

Traxsource is a leading U.S.-based dance music digital music downloads site that specialize in Underground music (such as House, Soulful, Deep, Jackin, Tech, Electro, Progressive, Indie Dance, Space Disco, Soul/Funk/Disco), providing various bitrates and formats for each download.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 2007 | "I'm Feelin' U" | Top 100 Singles | #10 | |

### Others
#### Music VF

Music VF is a music database combining the U.S. and UK music charts entries since the 19th century. The U.S. charts information is based on Billboard's charts, while the British on the Official UK Charts Company stats.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1991 | Herself | Top Pop Artists | #72 |
| 1991 | "Finally" | Top Pop Songs | #58 |
| 1991 | "Finally" | Top R&B Songs | #24 |
| 1991 | "Finally" | Top Dance Songs | #21 |
| 1992 | Herself | Top Pop Artists | #14 |
| 1992 | "We Got a Love Thang" | Top Pop Songs | #62 |
| 1992 | "Keep On Walkin'" | Top Pop Songs | #63 |
| 1992 | "Keep On Walkin'" | Top R&B Songs | #33 |
| 1992 | "We Got a Love Thang" | Top R&B Songs | #32 |
| 1992 | "We Got a Love Thang" | Top Dance Songs | #21 |
| 1992 | "Keep On Walkin'" | Top Dance Songs | #22 |
| 1994 | Herself | Top Pop Artists | #46 |
| 1994 | "I'm in the Mood" | Top Dance Songs | #21 |

## Beauty pageants
### Miss Black Arizona

The Miss Black Arizona Scholarship Pageant was developed to promote cultural awareness and celebration of black women and girls in the state of Arizona. The program is open to contestants ages 3–27 with six divisions and titles granted each year.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 1989 | Herself | Miss Black Arizona | Won | |

### Miss Galaxy

Miss Galaxy is a beauty contest for girls and women between 16 and 28 years old, with eligibility requirements of size XS/S/M.
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| 1990 | Herself | Miss Galaxy | Won | |

## Other honors

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Result |
| ? | Herself | Governor's Key to the State of Arizona | Honored | |
| ? | Herself | Phoenix College Hall of Fame | Honored | |