Award Categories

Recognizes the musical artiste who demonstrated the most outstanding impact within the eligibility period through artistic excellence, commercial success, cultural impact, public presence, and consistency.

Recognizing the most exceptional artiste from the Northern Region who has made significant contributions to the local music scene.

Celebrating the top-performing artiste from the Savanna Region who has excelled in musical creativity and regional influence.

Awarding the most outstanding musical talent from the Upper West Region.

Honoring the premier artiste from the Upper East Region who has demonstrated exceptional musical prowess.

Recognizing the most impactful artiste from the North East Region.

Awarded to a gospel musician (solo or group) who has demonstrated exceptional musical artistry, spiritual impact, and industry influence within the eligibility year.

Awarded to a musician who has excelled in the hiplife/hip-hop genre, significantly shaping the urban music scene through musical releases, performances, and cultural influence.

Honors an artiste whose musical output, cultural contribution, and public impact have significantly advanced and represented highlife music during the year.

Recognizes an artiste whose musical releases, performances, cultural impact, and contribution to the reggae/dancehall movement have stood out during the period.

Celebrates exceptional vocal talent and technique demonstrated by female artists throughout the eligibility period.

Recognizes outstanding vocal ability and artistry demonstrated by male artists in their musical releases and performances.

Recognizes an emerging musician whose debut impact through music releases, performances, public attention, and artistic potential has distinguished them as a promising future star.

Honors an artiste or industry professional for exceptional contributions to the Ghanaian music scene beyond regular categories.

Recognizes outstanding contributions to African music from artists or professionals with significant impact across the continent.

Celebrates an established artiste who continues to demonstrate relevance, quality, and impact in their musical career.

Awarded to a single gospel song that stands out for its impact, popularity, and artistic quality, conveying meaningful spiritual or inspirational messages.

Given to a song that has achieved the highest level of popularity and public recognition, focusing on widespread audience reception and enjoyment.

Recognizes the most outstanding Hiplife song that blends Highlife melodies with Hip-Hop rhythms, rap, and local languages.

Honors the most outstanding Highlife song that blends African rhythms with Western instruments and storytelling lyrics.

Recognizes the most outstanding song in the reggae or dancehall genre, celebrating musical excellence and cultural impact.

Recognizes the most outstanding hip-hop song released within a specific year, celebrating excellence in rap, lyricism, and production.

Recognizes the most outstanding Afrobeat song that blends African rhythms with contemporary pop or dance music.

Recognizes a music creator for exceptional skill, creativity, and contribution to songwriting, celebrating the person behind multiple songs.

Recognizes two or more artists who joined forces on a song and delivered an outstanding musical performance, celebrating teamwork and creativity.

Album/EP of the year is the body of work adjudged by the Academy and Board as the most outstanding compilation, (either by the number of hit songs, and/or quality of production) commercially released in the year under review.

Recognizes the most outstanding and creative music video, celebrating visual storytelling, production quality, and artistic impact.

Recognizes a music video that gained extraordinary attention, shares, and engagement online, focusing on popularity and cultural impact.

Recognizes a dance trend that became highly popular and widely replicated, celebrating creativity and cultural impact.

Recognizes exceptional talent in entertainment blogging and content creation, highlighting creativity, influence, and audience engagement.

Recognizes an individual who has demonstrated exceptional skill in audio production, ensuring music sounds polished, balanced, and high-quality.

The Best Video Director of the Year award recognizes a director who has demonstrated outstanding creative vision, technical excellence, and storytelling ability across video productions within the eligibility period. This category honors a director whose work showcases exceptional leadership, artistic innovation, and mastery of visual communication..

Recognizes a DJ who has excelled in live events, performances, and mixing music, celebrating skill and crowd engagement.

Recognizes the most dedicated, engaged, and influential fanbase, celebrating collective efforts in promoting and supporting artists.

Recognizes an artist who has shown exceptional talent and potential but has not yet achieved widespread mainstream recognition.

Recognizes a performer who has excelled in preserving, promoting, and innovating traditional or cultural music.

Recognizes individual achievements that span generations. This is an honorary award presented to an artiste (a living legend) to celebrate their expansive outstanding works over generations.