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Ne-Yo has received several nominations at the
Grammy Awards during his career; among these are
Best Contemporary R&B Album for
In My Own Words,
Because of You and
Year of the Gentleman,
Album of the Year for
Year of the Gentleman,
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for "
So Sick", "Because of You" and "
Miss Independent",
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "
Closer",
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group for "
Hate That I Love You" and
Best R&B Song for "Hate That I Love You" and "Miss Independent". The
MTV Video Music Awards has nominated Ne-Yo once, in 2008 for
Best Dancing in a Video for "Closer". Ne-Yo has also received one award from six nominations at the
BET Awards. Overall, Ne-Yo has received 8 awards from 31 nominations.
Recently, Ne-Yo was honored with four awards at the 2009
ASCAP "Rhythm & Soul Awards." Ne-Yo took home awards for "Closer", "
Take a Bow", "Miss Independent", and “Bust it Baby II.”
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Aside from working on his own album, Ne-Yo also collaborates with several other artists. His works include:
Rihanna's top-ten singles "
Unfaithful", "
Russian Roulette", and her number-one hit "
Take a Bow",
Mario Vazquez's "
Gallery",
Paula DeAnda's "
Walk Away (Remember Me)", and
Beyoncé Knowles'
Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "
Irreplaceable", which stayed at the top of the chart for ten consecutive weeks.
[67] He wrote the song "I'm You" for
Leona Lewis's debut album
Spirit, and is currently writing songs for her next album and for the debut album of fellow
X Factor winner
Alexandra Burke. He has also been working with
Sugababes for their
seventh album, with member
Keisha Buchanan confirming that Ne-Yo had written a song called "No More You" for their album.
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In 2010, he dueted with
Mariah Carey on "Angel's Cry", a song for her cancelled album,
Angels Advocate. Ne-Yo has also written songs for
Celine Dion,
Whitney Houston,
Carrie Underwood,
Anastacia,
Ciara,
Corbin Bleu,
Enrique Iglesias, and
Dima Bilan.
[67] He collaborated with
Lindsay Lohan on her new material, having already finished "
Bossy", a pre-single for her new album
Spirit in the Dark.
[69] In 2007, Ne-Yo confirmed that he had been contacted by producer
will.i.am to work on what would have been
Michael Jackson's new album.
[70] However, at the time of Jackson's death, Ne-Yo's collaborations with him had yet to move past the writing stage.
[71] In an interview in 2010, Ne-Yo said that, since Jackson's death, he had been confused as what to do with the songs, as he felt that selling them to another artist or even releasing the songs himself would be disrespectful to Jackson's legacy.
[72] In 2009, he wrote "
Truth (Saigo no Shinjitsu)" for
w-inds., the Japanese pop group.
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