Wizkid and YBNL rising star Fireboy DML carted home the biggest prizes at the 14th edition of the Headies Award. Fireboy won four awards for Best R&B Single, Best R&B Album, Best Pop Award and Best Headies Revelation.
Wizkid won Artiste of the year and Viewers Choice Award amongst other Big artiste like Davido, Burna Boy and Tiwa Savage.
The award show was held mostly offline to keep with Covid 19 restrictions for Lagos, but a lot of people were able to follow the proceedings on YouTube and other streaming platforms. Comedian and MC Bovi Ugboma and actress Nancy Isime were the host for this year’s edition. Bovi came on stage dressed in a bloody Nigerian flag t-shirt, to pay tribute to the #EndSars protesters and everyone loved it. He then said;
“There are some things that dont need to be spoken but seen”
At this point, he got a resounding round of applause and Twitter has been trending on this patriotic note. While some are happy with this, others are against it. They are saying it is against the law and he went too far. what do you think?
King Sunny Ade was also inducted into the Headies Hall of Fame.
The performances at the headies are also worthy of note. Laycon command thrilled the crowd and even added an additional verse to the award winning “Nobody” song win which he was featured. Falz who won an award for best Rap record for BOP Daddy gave an amazing performance highlighting the #EndSars protests well.
Full List of Winners below;
Best R&B Single
Fireboy DML
Best Recording of The Year
Brymo
Best Music Video of The Year
1 Milli – Davido By Director K
Producer of The Year
Pheelz – Billionaire by Teni
Best Vocal Performance (Female)
Niniola – Addicted
Best Vocal Performance (Male)
Praiz – Under The Sky
Best Street Hop Artiste
Mayorkun – Geng
Rookie of The Year
Bad Boy Tims – MJ
Best Pop Single
Nobody – DJ Neptune feat Joe Boy and Mr Eazi
Best Collabo
Ladipoe and Simi – Know you
Best Alternative song
Moelogo – I wonder
Best Rap Single
Falz – Bop Daddy feat. MS Banks
Best R&B Album
Fireboy DML – Tears, laughter and goosebumps
Best Alternative Album
Roots – The Cavemen
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Omah -Lay
Viewers Choice Award
Wizkid
Songwriter of the Year
Simi – Duduke
Best Pop Award
Fireboy – Apollo
Lyricist on The Roll
Ilbliss Goretti – Country
African Artiste Recognition Award
Master KG
Headies Revelation
Fireboy DML
Best Rap Album
God’s Engineering – AQ
Song of The Year
Nobody- DJ Neptune feat. Joeboy and Mr Eazi
Artiste of The Year