"Back to Basics" received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards (2007) and won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Ain't No Other Man". At the 50th Annual Grammy Awards the following year, "Candyman" was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. "Back to Basics" was named the best pop album of 2006 by iTunes. On June 17, 2008, "Entertainment Weekly" listed the album at number eighty of the hundred best albums of the last twenty-five years.