1980s
- 1989
- Anita Baker, Randy Holland and Skip Scarborough for "Giving You the Best That I Got"
- Babyface, L.A. Reid and Daryl Simmons for "Don't Be Cruel"
- Jimmy George for "I'll Always Love You
- Johnny Kemp and Gene Griffin for "Just Got Paid"
- Luther Vandross and Marcus Miller for "Any Love"
- 1988
- Bill Withers for "Lean on Me"
- Jimmy George and Lou Pardini for "Just to See Her"
- Prince for "U Got the Look"
- Reggie Calloway for "Casanova"
- Stevie Wonder for "Skeletons"
- 1987
- Anita Baker, Louis A. Johnson and Gary Bias for "Sweet Love"
- Dan Hartman and Charlie Midnight for "Living in America"
- James Harris III, Terry Lewis and Janet Jackson for "What Have You Done For Me Lately"
- Luther Vandross and Nat Adderley, Jr. for "Give Me the Reason"
- Prince & the Revolution for "Kiss"
- 1986
- Jeffrey Cohen and Narada Michael Walden for "Freeway of Love"
- David Foster, Tom Keane and Cynthia Weil for "Through the Fire"
- LaLa for "You Give Good Love"
- Sharon Robinson, Jon Gilutin and Bunny Hull for "New Attitude"
- Walter Orange, Dennis Lambert and Franne Golde for Nightshift
- 1985
- Prince for "I Feel For You"
- Bill Wolfer and Dean Pitchford for "Dancing in the Sheets"
- James Ingram, Michael McDonald, Rod Temperton and Quincy Jones for "Yah Mo B There"
- Keith Diamond and Billy Ocean for "Caribbean Queen"
- Sheila E. for Glamorous Life
- 1984
- Michael Jackson for "Billie Jean"
- Eddy Grant for "Electric Avenue (song)"
- Hawk Wolinski for "Ain't Nobody"
- James Ingram and Quincy Jones for "PYT (Pretty Young Thing)"
- Michael Jackson for "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
- 1983
- Jay Graydon, Steve Lukather and Bill Champlin for "Turn Your Love Around"
- Marvin Gaye, Odell Brown and David Ritz for "Sexual Healing"
- Reggie Andrews and Leon "Ndugu" Chancler and "Let It Whip"
- Stevie Wonder for "That Girl"
- Stevie Wonder for "Do I Do"
- Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein and Lou Staliman for "It's Gonna Take a Miracle"
- 1982
- Bill Withers, William Salter and Ralph MacDonald for "Just the Two of Us"
- Chas Jankel and Kenny Young for "Ai No Corrida"
- Harold Hudson, William King and Shirley King for "Lady (You Bring Me Up)"
- Leon Haywood for "She's a Bad Mama Jama"
- Marc Blatte and Larry Gottlieb for "When She Was My Girl"
- 1981
- Reggie Lucas and James Mtume for "Never Knew Love Like This Before"
- Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards for "Upside Down"
- Lee Garrett and Stevie Wonder for "Let's Get Serious"
- Leo Graham and Paul Richmond for "Shining Star"
- Rod Temperton and "Give Me the Night"
- 1980
- David Foster, Jay Graydon and Bill Champlin for "After the Love Has Gone"
- Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren for "Reunited"
- Gene McFadden, John Whitehead and Jerry Cohen for "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"
- Isaac Hayes and Adrienne Anderson for "Deja Vu
- Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards for "We Are Family"
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