3Music Awards: Sarkodie Leads Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale with 13 nominations
1 February 2020
by Eugene Brown
Mdundo, your favourite music and entertainment website in Africa has just published the list of nominations for the 3rd edition of the 3Music Awards in Ghana.
The nominations were announced by the award committee on Thursday, January 30, 2020 in Accra.
Several topnotch artistes have received nominations. This year however, Ghana’s king of rap music, Sarkodie is leading the nominations. The 2019 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Artiste of the Decade has 13 nominations with his works including ones from his just-released album 'Black Love'.
Sarkodie was nominated under the award scheme's biggest category 'Song of the Year' with 'Saara' which features songstress Efya.
Other categories he was nominated in includes the Male Act of The Year, Hiplife/Hip-hop Act of The Year, Video of The Year, Hiplife Song of the Year, Hip-hop Song of the Year, Best Collaboration of the Year, Afrobeat/Afropop Song of the Year, Fan Army of the Year, Digital Act of the Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Performer of the Year.
However, Sarkodie was nominated twice in the Hip-hop Song of the Year with Bleeding and Biibi Ba. Additionally, 'Saara' which featured Efya alone earned him three nominations.
At a count, dancehall artistes Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy followed closely with 10 nominations each.
The two were nominated side-by-side in several categories includingReggae/Dancehall Act of the Year, Reggae/Dancehall Song of the Year, Best Performer of the Year, Male Act of the Year and the biggest award on the night Song of the Year.
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