HEADIES 2014: Who Goes Home With Top Prize?

The music awards has finally berths today (Sunday). Arguably the biggest music awards in Nigeria, HEADIES, formerly known in years past as HipHop Awards, brings all the razzmatazz and energy known with the music industry.
In the year in review between July 2013 – June 2014, twenty awards are up for grabs and a life time achievement award will be bestowed on Sir Victor Uwaifo. The Album Of the Year will be contested by Sean Tizzle’sThe Journey, Burnaboy’s L.I.F.E, Olamide’s Baddest Guy Ever Liveth, Phyno’s No Guts No Glory. For The Artiste of the Year, the competition is tougher. With seven artistes slugging it out, the award category throws up the artiste who is the most critically and commercially adjudged artiste in the year under review and overall most successful artiste for the same period. They nominees are Davido, Wizkid, Kcee, Tiwa Savage, Olamide, Phyno, Flavour.

The Song Of The Year has Aye from Davido, Pull Over from Kcee, Double Wahala from Oritsefemi, Surulere – Dr Sid, Dorobucci from The Mavins and Johnny – Yemi Alade


Best Recording Of The Year

A non-voting category for the best single recording by an artiste or group in year under review.

Iyawo Mi- Timi Dakolo

Let Somebody Love You- 2Face Idibia

Always On My Mind – Nosa

Ordinary People – Cohbams Asuquo


Producer Of The Year

An individual responsible for producing the most acclaimed song or album in the year under review.

Don Jazzy – Dorobucci

Pheelz – Eleda Mi O

T Spize – Aye

Legendury Beatz – Caro

Shizzy – Skelewu

Del B – Pull Over


Best Music Video

A voting category for the best conceptualist, best directed and most exciting video in the year under review. This award goes to the video director.

Ada Ada by Flavour – Clarence Peters

Toh Bad by Niyola – Kemi Adetiba

Just Like That by Rayce – Aje

Oya Now by Joe El Ft. Oritse Femi – Unlimited La

Personally by P-Square – Jude “Engees” Okoye & Clarence Peters


Best R&B/Pop Album

A category for the best R&B/Pop Album in the year under review (by single individual or group).

The Journey – Sean Tizzle

Takeover – Kcee

Once Upon A Time – Tiwa Savage

Me, My Mouth & Eye – Sound Sultan

L.I.F.E – Burna Boy


Best R&B Single

A category for the best R&B single in year under review (by single individual or group).

Let Somebody Love You- 2Face Idibia

Iyawo Mi- Timi Dakolo

Don Gordon – Burna Boy


Best Pop Single

A category for the best pop single in year under review (by single individual or group)

Dorobucci – Mavin Crew

Aye – Davido

Johnny – Yemi Alade

Pull Over – Kcee

Double Wahala – Oritse Femi

Caro – Star Boy ft. Wizkid and L.A.X

Surulere – Dr. Sid


Best Reggae/Dancehall Single

A category for the best Reggae/Dancehall single in year under review (by single individual or group).

Girlie O Remix – Patoranking

Lead Me On – Cynthia Morgan

Stinking Sh#t – Chopstix ft. Ice Prince, Yung L and Endia.

Bad Girl– Jesse Jagz ft. Wizkid

Murda– Seyi Shay ft. Patoranking & Shaydee


Best Rap Album

A non-voting category for the Best Album By a Rap artiste or group in year under review.

No Guts No Glory – Phyno

Alaga Ibile- Reminisce

Baddest Guy Ever Liveth – Olamide

Thy Nation Come – Jesse Jagz


Best Collabo(ration)

A voting category for the best R&B, Pop or Hip-hop collaborative track (including cameos).

Oya Now– Joe El ft. Oritse Femi

Emergency– Wizzy Pro featuring Skales, Patoranking and Runtown

Surulere– Dr Sid & Don Jazzy

Pass You By– Black Magic ft. Oritse Femi

Girlie O Remix – Patoranking

Dorobucci – Mavins


Best Rap Single

A voting category for a single (released on-air) recording of a rap song.

Parcel- Phyno

Dope Money– Olamide ft. Phyno

Shotz On Shots– Ice Prince ft. Sarkodie

Rap It Up– Posly Td

Deaf– Eva Alordiah

WTF– Ill Bliss


Best Vocal Performance (Male)

A non-voting category for the single male artiste with the most outstanding vocal performance on a single song or album.

Iyawo Mi – Timi Dakolo

Double Wahala – Oritse Femi

Why You Love Me – Nosa

Ordinary People – Cobhams


Best Vocal Performance (Female)

A non-voting category for the single female artiste with most outstanding vocal performances on a single song or album.

Love To Love You – Niyola ft. Bankyw

Wanted – Tiwa Savage

Window – Monica Ogah

Good Man – Ruby


Next Rated

This category is a voting category for the most promising upcoming officially unreleased (or signed) act in the year under review.

Patoranking

Runtown

Orezi

Skales

Yemi Alade


Hip Hop World Revelation

A voting category for the best new artiste in the year under review.

Tiwa Savage – Once Upon A Time

Sean Tizzle – The Journey

Burna Boy – L.I.F.E

Kcee – Take Over


Lyricist On The Roll

A non-voting category for the Rap Artiste with the best lyrical depth and performance on a single song or album.

Shots On Shots – Ice Prince

Rap It Up – Posly Td

God On The Mic – Jesse Jagz

Kpansh – Yung 6ix


Best Street-Hop Artiste

A voting category for the artiste whose songs are inspired by the streets. Such song should captain lingua, which may also be originated by the artiste and popular on the street.

Double Wahala – Oritse Femi

Shoki – Lil’ Kesh ft. Olamide & Davido

Dorobucci – Mavin

Alobam – Phyno


Best ‘Alternative’ Song

A voting category for the artiste whose songs reflect any form or style of music which falls outside the mainstream of recent or past popular musical trends.

Bolaji – Boj

Body- Black Magic ft. Banky W

Good Man – Ruby

Why You Love You – Nosa


Album Of The Year

A voting category for the best album (solo or group) in year under review, that meets judges requirements of excellence (in every realm: Song writing, production, rendition and promotion) and acceptability (Sales and popularity).

The Journey – Sean Tizzle

L.I.F.E – Burna Boy

Baddest Guy Ever Liveth – Olamide

No Guts No Glory – Phyno


Artiste Of The Year

Most critically and commercially adjudged artiste in the year under review. Overall most successful artiste for the year under review.

Davido

Wizkid

Kcee

Tiwa Savage

Olamide

Phyno

Flavour


Song Of The Year

A voting category for the most popular song in the year under review. This category is usually decided by voting.

Aye – Davido

Pull Over – Kcee

Double Wahala – Oritsefemi

Surulere – Dr Sid

Dorobucci – Mavins

Johnny – Yemi Alade


Best African Artiste

A non-Nigerian award category for an individual African artiste with the most outstanding single/album and astonishing achievements and infiltration into Nigeria in year under review.

Mafikizolo

Sarkodie

Diamondz

R2bees


Hall Of Fame

Special recognition for excellence and outstanding impact to the entertainment industry.

Sir (Dr) Victor Uwaifo.

Source: Headies / Leadership.ng