American Music Awards of 1978
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The 5th Annual American Music Awards were held on January 16, 1978.

Pop/Rock Category

  • Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist
    • Barry Manilow
      Barry Manilow
      Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, and performer, best known for such recordings as "Could It Be Magic", "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana ."...


  • Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist
    • Linda Ronstadt
      Linda Ronstadt
      Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...


  • Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo, or Group
    • Fleetwood Mac
      Fleetwood Mac
      Fleetwood Mac are a British–American rock band formed in 1967 in London.The only original member present in the band is its eponymous drummer, Mick Fleetwood...


  • Favorite Pop/Rock Album
    • Rumours
      Rumours
      Rumours is the eleventh studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. Largely recorded in California during 1976, it was produced by the band with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut and was released on 4 February 1977 by Warner Bros. Records. The record peaked at the top of both the...

      - Fleetwood Mac

  • Favorite Pop/Rock Single
    • "You Light Up My Life
      You Light Up My Life (song)
      Many artists have covered "You Light Up My Life" since 1977. The following year, Johnny Mathis recorded and named his album after the song. LeAnn Rimes released her version as a single in 1997, 20 years after Boone's version was released and on the same record label . Her version fared modestly...

      " - Debby Boone
      Debby Boone
      Deborah Anne Boone is an American singer and stage actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life," which spent a then record ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year...


Soul/R&B Category

  • Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist
    • Stevie Wonder
      Stevie Wonder
      Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...


  • Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist
    • Natalie Cole
      Natalie Cole
      Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...


  • Favorite Soul/R&B Band, Duo, or Group
    • Earth Wind and Fire

  • Favorite Soul/R&B Album
    • Songs in the Key of Life
      Songs in the Key of Life
      Songs in the Key of Life is the 13th album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder, released September 28, 1976, on Motown Records. It was the culmination of his "classic period" albums. An ambitious double LP with a 4-song bonus EP, Songs in the Key of Life became among the best-selling and...

      - Stevie Wonder

  • Favorite Soul/R&B Single
    • "Best of My Love" - The Emotions
      The Emotions
      The Emotions are an American all female soul and R&B singing group. The group was formed in its current hometown of Chicago, Illinois originally consisting of the three Hutchinson sisters, all the children of Joseph and Lillian Hutchinson....


Country Category

  • Favorite Country Male Artist
    • Conway Twitty
      Conway Twitty
      Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...


  • Favorite Country Female Artist
    • Loretta Lynn
      Loretta Lynn
      Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...


  • Favorite Country Band, Duo, or Group
    • Conway Twitty
      Conway Twitty
      Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...

       & Loretta Lynn
      Loretta Lynn
      Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...


  • Favorite Country Album
    • New Harvest - First Gathering
      New Harvest - First Gathering
      -Chart performance:-External links:*...

      - Dolly Parton
      Dolly Parton
      Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...


  • Favorite Country Single
    • "Lucille
      Lucille (Kenny Rogers song)
      "Lucille" is the title of a ballad written by Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum, and recorded by Kenny Rogers. It was released in January 1977 as the second and final single from the album Kenny Rogers. The song is about a man in a bar that meets a woman who has left her husband...

      " - Kenny Rogers
      Kenny Rogers
      Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...

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