 The video for "When Love
Comes To Town" with U2 won a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Video from a Film.
 King was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary
Blues Recording (King
Of The Blues: 1989) and Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group ("When Love Comes To
Town" with U2).
King won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional
Blues Recording (Live
At San Quentin) and was nominated for Best
Contemporary Blues Recording ("Red Hot +
Blue" with Lee Atwater)
and Best Country Vocal
Collaboration ("Waiting On The Light To
Change" with Randy Travis)
 King won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional
Blues Album (Live
At The Apollo).
King won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional
Blues Album (Blues
Summit).
Rock
'N Roll Hall Of Fame's 500
Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll includes "Sweet
Little Angel" and "The Thrill Is
Gone."
 King won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental
Performance ("SRV Shuffle" with Jimmie
Vaughan, Robert Cray,
Eric
Clapton, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, and Art
Neville).
King was honored with the Blues
Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in
Hollywood. Bonnie Raitt, Dr. John,
and John Lee Hooker were among the
musicians attending to help celebrate King's
achievements. King stated, "I'm feeling
so proud, my buttons are about to pop."
 King released Deuces
Wild - a compilation of duets
including appearances by Bonnie Raitt, the Rolling
Stones, Eric
Clapton, Willie Nelson, Heavy D.,
Tracy
Chapman, D'Angelo, Joe Cocker and Van Morrison.
Deuces
Wild topped the Billboard Blues
Albums chart for 13 weeks.
King performed for the Pope and
presented the Pontiff with
"Lucille" his famous guitar.
Ranked # 51 on VH1: 100
Greatest Artists of Rock & Roll (and
# 75 on Rock On The Net's
Poll).
 King was awarded the Lifetime
Achievement Award at the Mobo Awards.
King released Blues
On The Bayou.
King was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary
Blues Album (Deuces
Wild).
 King was honored with
Entertainer of the Year and Contemporary
Blues Album of the Year Award for Blues
On The Bayou at the W.C. Handy Awards
(presented by the Blues Foundation).
King released Let
The Good Times Roll: The Music Of Louis
Jordan.
 King released Riding
With The King with Eric
Clapton.
Riding
With The King topped the Billboard Internet
Album chart for 7 weeks and the Billboard
Blues Album chart into 2001.
Riding
With The King was certified platinum.
King topped Billboard
Year-End Charts with the Top Blues
Album (Riding
With The King) and as the Top Blues Artist.
King won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals
("Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't (My
Baby)" with Dr. John)
and was also nominated for Best Traditional
Blues Album (Riding
With The King and Let
The Good Times Roll: The Music Of Louis
Jordan).
Riding
With The King was certified 2x
platinum.
 King topped the Billboard Blues
Albums chart for a week with The
Best Of B.B. King: The Millennium Collection.
King won awards for Entertainer
of the Year and Contemporary Album of the
Year (for Riding
With The King) at the Annual W.C. Handy
Awards.
 King released a Christmas LP - A
Christmas Celebration Of Hope (available for
download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3).
King topped the Billboard Blues
Albums chart for 5 weeks with A
Christmas Celebration Of Hope.
For the second year in a row,
King topped Billboard
Year-End Charts with the Top Blues
Album (Riding
With The King) and as the Top Blues Artist.
King won Entertainer of the Year
at the W.C. Handy Blues Awards (for the 4th
year in a row).
King won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Instrumental
Performance ("Auld Lang Syne")
and Best Traditional Blues Album (A
Christmas Celebration Of Hope).
King was honored with
Entertainer of the Year at the W.C. Handy
Blues Awards.
King released Reflections.
 Rolling Stone:
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: # 141:
Live At The Regal.
King was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal
Performance ("Sinner's Prayer"
with Ray Charles).
 King released 80 (Rolling Stone:  - Billboard peak: # 45) - a collection
of collaborations with the likes of Van Morrison, Eric
Clapton, Sheryl
Crow, Hall &
Oates, John Mayer, Mark
Knopfler, Glenn Frey, Gloria
Estefan, Roger Daltrey,
and Elton
John.
King could be heard on the Hurricane
Relief: Come Together Now compilation
with "Early In The Morning."
King won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional
Blues Album (80).
 King topped Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Blues
Artist.
King released One
Kind Favor (Billboard peak: # 37).
Rolling Stone:
'The Greatest Singers' includes King at # 96.
 King won a Grammy Award for
Best Traditional Blues Album (One
Kind Favor). King performed at the
ceremony.
B.B. along with Freddie
King, Albert King,
and Earl King released The
Four Kings Of Blues Guitar.
Live
At The Royal Albert Hall 2011 was released.
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