The song won for Favorite Soul/R & B Single at the 1987 American Music Awards . It ranked number 30 on VH1 's 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years , number 45 on VH1 's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s , number 79 on '' Rolling Stone '' s 100 Greatest Pop Songs , and number six on '' LA Weekly '' s Best Pop Songs in Music History by a Female . It has been included in each of Jackson 's greatest hits albums : '' Design of a Decade : 1986 – 1996 '' ( 1995 ) , '' Number Ones '' ( 2009 ) and '' Icon : Number Ones '' ( 2010 )
1987 American Music Awards
American Music Awards of 1987
Nasty (Janet Jackson song)