Adina & KiDi Lead VGMA 2021 with Highest Number of nominations

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By Eugene Brown

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After the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards nominees announcements last weekend, evergreen Ghanaian songstress and Adina and award-winning Ghanaian highlife musician KiDi, became the two musicians who received the highest number of nominations in the various categories for the 2021 edition.

Organizers of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards say they received over thousand entries after a call was made on the 19th of January.

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Approximately 6 weeks after the end of Call, nominations were unveiled on TV3 and on social media via Charterhouse live.

A total of 111 nominees taking their spots in the 215 total nominations. There were 86 Male nominees and 24 Female nominees without counting group nominees.

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A total of 97 nominees are Ghanaians and 14 are foreigners.

The nominations were across some 29 Categories with Charterhouse introducing 2 new Categories; EP of the Year and Afrobeats/Afropop Artiste of the Year.

VGMA22 has 8 Song Categories, 9 Artiste Categories and 17 others. 28 categories are Ghanaian and 1 International.

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The categories with the most nominations is the Vodafone Most Popular Song of the Year with 12 Songs followed by Best Afrobeats/Afropop Song, Best Video and Best New Artiste with 10 nominations each.

The category with the least number of Nominations is Best Group with 4 nominations.

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