"Anti" won the award for &lt;a href="American%20Music%20Award%20for%20Favorite%20Soul/R%26amp%3BB%20Album"&gt;Favorite Soul/R&amp;B Album&lt;/a&gt; at the 2016 American Music Awards. The record received a nomination for Top R&amp;B Album at the 2016 and 2017 "Billboard" Music Awards and was also nominated for Best Urban Contemporary Album and Best Recording Package at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. Prior to the Grammy nominations announcement, media outlets predicted that "Anti" would be nominated for Album of the Year; following the announcement reporters were surprised and felt that the album had been "snubbed". Fellow musicians also believed that the album should have been nominated, with Chance the Rapper stating that the album was "underrated". Apart from "Anti"s nominations, several songs from it were also nominated including "Work" for Record of the Year and &lt;a href="Grammy%20Award%20for%20Best%20Pop%20Duo/Group%20Performance"&gt;Best Pop Duo/Group Performance&lt;/a&gt;, "Needed Me" for Best R&amp;B Performance and "Kiss It Better" for Best R&amp;B Song. At the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards "Anti" received the award for 'R&amp;B Album of the Year'.