MTV Just Gave Us The First Round Of MAMA 2015 Nominees
by Phil Chard
It was all glitz, glam and the regular dose celebrity posturing as we gathered at Johannesburg's Constitution Hill for the first half of the MTV MAMA announcements. Attendees got to see performances from Nathi, Shekinah, Riky Rick, Mi Casa and Lizah James while the Major League DJz and PH did their thing on the decks.
In total 50 nominees from 18 countries were announced in 9 categories
The original Starboy (cough cough… Weeknd) Wizkid got 3 nominations for Best Male, Best Collaboration and Personality of the Year. AKA (South Africa), Cassper Nyovest (South Africa) and Sauti Sol(Kenya) all got 2 nods.
The category we all care about was Best Hip Hop where Emtee, Riky Rick, Olamide, Ycee, and Kiff No Beat were nominated. Clearly the biggest omissions were Cassper Nyovest, AKA, Kwesta, M.I, Franko, Sarkodie and E.L. E.L probably has the strongest case coming off of his 5 wins at the VGMAs earlier this year. M.I had an incredible come back to music and Cassper has had an incredible year with Refiloe, coupled with #FillUpTheDome and the onslaught that is Family Tre Fridays.
Ghanaian duo and Starboy signees R2bees also got a nod in the Best Group category where they will face off against Kenya’s Sauti Sol, South Africa’s Mi Casa, Navy Kenzo from Tanzania and Togolese duo, Toofan.
The second round of nominations, comprising 7 additional award categories, including Artist of the Year, Best Female, Listener’s Choice, Best Breakthrough, Best Francophone, Song of the Year in partnership with Google, and Video of the Year,will be revealed at the Hard Rock Café, Lagos, Nigeria during Road to MAMA – Lagos 2016 (2 October 2016). No nominations will be revealed for the MTV Base Reimagined award, and MAMA Legend.
MAMA 2016 NOMINATIONS (PART 1)
Best Male
AKA (South Africa)
Black Coffee (South Africa)
Diamond (Tanzania)
Patoranking (Nigeria)
Wizkid (Nigeria)
Best Live
Cassper Nyovest (South Africa)
Eddy Kenzo (Uganda)
Flavour (Nigeria)
Mafikizolo (South Africa)
Stonebwoy (Ghana)
Best Group
Mi Casa (South Africa)
Navy Kenzo (Tanzania)
R2bees (Ghana)
Sauti Sol (Kenya)
Toofan (Togo)
Best Collaboration in partnership with Absolut
AKA feat. Burna Boy, Khuli Chana & Yanga – "Baddest" (South Africa/Nigeria)
DJ Maphorisa feat. Wizkid & DJ Bucks - "Soweto Baby" ((South Africa/Nigeria)
Nasty C feat. Davido, Cassper - "Juice Back Remix" (Nigeria/South Africa)
Patoranking feat. Sarkodie – "No Kissing" (Nigeria/Ghana)
Sauti Sol feat. Alikiba - "Unconditionally Bae" (Kenya/Tanzania)
Best Hip Hop in association with MTN
Emtee (South Africa)
Kiff No Beat (Ivory Coast)
Olamide (Nigeria)
Riky Rick (South Africa)
Ycee (Nigeria)
Best Pop/Alternative
Desmond & The Tutus (South Africa)
LCNVL (South Africa)
Shekinah (South Africa) / Kyle Deutsch (South Africa)
Timo ODV (South Africa)
Tresor (DRC)
Best Lusophone
C4 Pedro (Angola)
NGA (Angola)
Lizha James (Mozambique)
Nelson Freitas (Netherlands/Cape Verde)
Preto Show (Angola)
Personality of the Year in association with DStv
Caster Semenya (South Africa)
Linda Ikeji (Nigeria)
Pearl Thusi (South Africa)
Pierre Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon)
Wizkid (Nigeria)
Best International
Adele (UK)
Beyoncé (USA)
Drake (Canada)
Future (USA)
Rihanna (Barbados)
Tickets for the MTV Africa Music Awards Johannesburg 2016 are on sale now priced ZAR 250 (standing only) via www.ticketpros.co.za, at Ticketproretail outlets or dealers at http://www.mtvbase.com.
MTV Nominayshin Parry - Curated tweets by PhilChard
This Is What Was Announced At the MTV African Music Awards Event
by Phil Chard
MTV Base Africa just held a lavish event at Emoyeni in Johannesburg where they made a number of announcements regarding this year’s MTV African Music Awards. However, they did not announce any of the nominees for the ceremony, so it was essentially an announcement that was announcing when the actual announcements would be announced.
Despite all that there was still a lot of valuable information shared at the event. We have managed to compress all of that information into a few bite sized factoids;
The 6th MTV Africa Music Awards will be held in Johannesburg 2016 at The Ticketpro Dome on 22 October 2016. This is their first time in Joburg.
Nominees will be competing over 17 different Award categories. Nominees for these categories will be revealed in September. The first batch of nominees will be announced in Johannesburg with a second nominee’s announcement to be held in Lagos, Nigeria.
The run up to the event will include Road to MAMA events featuring MAMA nominees to be held in Durban and Lagos. As well as a music industry workshop for aspiring musicians held on the day prior to the awards (21 October).
The MTV Africa Music Awards 2016 will broadcast live on MTV Base (DStv Channel 322) and MTV (DStv Channel 130) on Saturday 22 October at 21:00 Other partner stations will start airing reruns after the event. There was no word on whether the event will be streamed, which would be a nice touch considering other Viacom events like the BET Awards are streamed live.
At the event it was also announced that Khuli Chana would be working on a collaborative album titled One Source in partnership with Absolut Vodka. The album will feature collaborations from across the continent.
This year’s #MTVMAMA2016 will be held at the TicketPro Dome in Joburg pic.twitter.com/XbFkCvBzE4
— African Hip Hop Blog (@AfricanHHB) August 23, 2016
@KhuliChana and Absolut partnering up on the release of his new album One Source. Khuli will be Exec Producer. #MTVMAMA2016
— African Hip Hop Blog (@AfricanHHB) August 23, 2016
Announcement of nominees will be done in two cities. Johannesburg and Lagos. #MTVMAMA2016
— African Hip Hop Blog (@AfricanHHB) August 23, 2016