  Ray was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance -
Male
("Some Enchanted Evening").
Ray was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Born To Love Me").
 Ray hit the Top 40 with Quincy Jones and Chaka
Khan with "I'll Be Good To You."
from the Quincy Jones LP Back
On The Block
ARC chart run: 40 - 34 - 25 - 23 - 22 - 19 - 15 - 12 - 29 - off
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 Ray was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal
Performance, Duo or Group ("Save The
Bones For Henry Jones" with Lou
Rawls).
Ray won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group when he joined forces
with Quincy Jones and Chaka
Khan on the remake of "I'll Be
Good To You."
 Ray won a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal
Performance ("A Song For You").
Ranked # 12 on VH1: Greatest
Artists of Rock & Roll (and
# 91 on Rock On The Net's
Poll).
 VH1: 100
Greatest Rock Songs included
"What'd I Say" at # 43.
VH1: 100
Greatest Dance Songs included "What'd
I Say" at # 96.
 VH1: 100
Greatest Albums included Modern Sounds
in Country and Western Music at # 97.
Ray could be heard dueting with Barbra
Streisand on the track "Cryin'
Time" from her LP Duets.
 Rolling Stone:
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included The Birth of Soul:
The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues
Recordings, 1952 - 1959 (1991) at #
53, Modern Sounds
in Country and Western Music (1962)
at # 104, and The Genius of
Ray Charles (1959) at #
263.
The
Very Best Of Ray Charles was released on Rhino
Records.
 Rolling Stone:
The Immortals - The 100 Greatest Artists of
All Time included Ray at # 10.
On June 10th, Ray passed away
at the age of 73 from liver disease
complications.
 Genius
Loves Company was released - the set is a
collection of duets including Norah Jones, James Taylor, Diana Krall,
Elton
John, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Natalie Cole, Michael
McDonald, Gladys Knight, Johnny Mathis,
and Van Morrison.
Ray topped the Billboad Internet
LP chart and the Canadian LP chart with Genius
Loves Company.
Genius
Loves Company was certified platinum - it was
Ray's first platinum LP.
 A collection of Ray's music
could be heard on the soundtrack of his film
autobiography - Ray!
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Genius
Loves Company was certified 2x platinum.
 Rolling Stone:
The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time included "What'd
I Say" at # 10 and
"Georgia On My Mind" at # 44.
 The LP More
Music From Ray (soundtrack) was released.
Ray posthumously won 5 Grammy Awards for Album of the Year (Genius
Loves Company), Record of the Year ("Here We Go
Again" with Norah Jones), Best Pop Vocal Album (Genius
Loves Company), Best Gospel Performance
("Heaven Help Us All" with Gladys Knight) and Best
Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("Here We Go
Again" with Norah Jones), and was nominated
for Best
Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("Sorry Seems To
Be The Hardest Word" with Elton
John), and Best Traditional R&B Vocal
Performance ("Sinner's
Prayer" with B.B.
King).
Genius
Loves Company was certified 3x platinum.
Genius
Loves Company topped the Billboard 200 LP
chart.
The
Very Best Of Ray Charles was certified gold.
 Genius
And Friends was released (Billboard peak: # 36).
The Ray! soundtrack topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Soundtrack
Album.
The LP Ray!
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack won a Grammy Award for Best Compilation
Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture,
Television or Other Visual Media.
The
Very Best Of Ray Charles was certified
platinum.
 Rolling Stone:
'The Greatest Singers' includes Ray at # 2.
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