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List of Nigerian Grammy Award winners and nominees
Last updated
March 07, 2025
The following is a list of
Grammy Awards
winners and nominees from
Nigeria
:
Artists who received nominations for their original work
Year
Category
Work
Artist
Result
1984
Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
Syncro System
King Sunny Adé
[
1
]
Nominated
1998
Best World Music Album
Love Drum Talk
Babatunde Olatunji
Nominated
1999
Odu
King Sunny Adé
[
2
]
Nominated
2002
Best Pop Vocal Album
Lovers Rock
Sade
[
3
]
Won
2003
Best World Music Album
Fight to Win
Femi Kuti
[
a
]
Nominated
2010
Best Contemporary World Music Album
Day by Day
Femi Kuti
Nominated
2012
Best World Music Album
Africa for Africa
Femi Kuti
Nominated
2014
No Place for My Dream
Femi Kuti
Nominated
2019
Best World Music Album
Black Times
Seun Kuti
& Egypt 80
[
4
]
Nominated
2020
African Giant
Burna Boy
Nominated
2021
Twice as Tall
Burna Boy
[
5
]
Won
2022
Best Global Music Album
Made in Lagos
Deluxe Edition
Wizkid
Nominated
Legacy +
Femi Kuti and
Made Kuti
Nominated
Best Global Music Performance
"
Essence
"
Wizkid
featuring
Tems
Nominated
"Pà Pá Pà"
Femi Kuti
Nominated
2023
"
Last Last
"
Burna Boy
Nominated
Best Global Music Album
Love Damini
Nominated
2024
Timeless
Davido
Nominated
Best Global Music Performance
"Feel"
Nominated
Best African Music Performance
"
Unavailable
"
Nominated
"
Rush
"
Ayra Starr
Nominated
"
Amapiano
"
Asake
and
Olamide
Nominated
"
City Boys
"
Burna Boy
Nominated
Best Melodic Rap Performance
"
Sittin' on top of the World
"
Nominated
Best Global Music Album
I Told Them...
Nominated
2025
Best African Music Performance
"Tomorrow"
Yemi Alade
Nominated
"MMS"
Asake and Wizkid
Nominated
"
Higher
"
Burna Boy
Nominated
"
Love Me JeJe
"
Tems
Won
Best R&B Song
"
Burning
"
Nominated
Best Global Music Album
Born in the Wild
Nominated
Heis
Rema
Nominated
Artists who received nominations as a featured artist
Year
Category
Foreign work and artist
Nigerian act
Result
1991
Best World Music Album
Planet Drum
Babatunde Olatunji
Won
2015
Album of the Year
Beyoncé
by
Beyoncé
[
b
]
[
6
]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nominated
2017
Views
by
Drake
[
c
]
[
7
]
[
8
]
Wizkid
Nominated
Best Dance Recording
"
Rinse & Repeat
" by
Riton
[
d
]
[
9
]
Kah-Lo
Nominated
2021
Best Music Video
"
Brown Skin Girl
" by
Beyonce
,
Saint Jhn
&
Wizkid
featuring
Blue Ivy Carter
[
10
]
[
11
]
Wizkid
Won
2009
Best Contemporary World Music Album
Global Drum Project
by
Various artists
[
e
]
Sikiru Adepoju
Won
2022
Best Global Music Performance
"Do Yourself" by
Angélique Kidjo
featuring
Burna Boy
Burna Boy
Nominated
Album of the Year
Justice
Triple Chucks Deluxe
by
Justin Bieber
[
f
]
Burna Boy
Nominated
2023
Best Rap Song
"
Wait For U
" by
Future
featuring
Drake
and Tems
Tems
Nominated
Best Melodic Rap Performance
Won
Album of the Year
Renaissance
by
Beyoncé
Nominated
2024
Best Song Written for Visual Media
"
Lift Me Up
" by
Rihanna
Nominated
2025
Best African Music Performance
"
Sensational
" by
Chris Brown
Davido and
Lojay
Nominated
Notes
↑
Femi Kuti
was born in England and grew up in Nigeria.
↑
Beyoncé is an American singer and
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
, a Nigerian, appears as a featured artist on one of the songs on the album.
↑
Drake
is a Canadian musician and
Wizkid
, a Nigerian, appears as a featured artist and co-producer on one of the songs on the album.
↑
Riton is an English musician and
Kah-Lo
, a Nigerian, appears as a featured artist on the song.
↑
The album features a number of different artists from around the world, primarily
Mickey Hart
,
Zakir Hussain
,
Sikiru Adepoju
[
12
]
and
Giovanni Hidalgo
↑
Justin Bieber is a Canadian musician and
Burna Boy
, a Nigerian, appears as a featured artist on one of the songs on the album.
References
↑
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.
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.
↑
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.
The Cable
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2018-02-10
.
↑
"Hot Product"
.
Billboard
. 4 February 2002
. Retrieved
2 September
2015
.
↑
"Grammy nominations 2019: Seun Kuti, Kendrick Lamar & Drake don gbab Grammys nomination"
. BBC. 7 December 2018
. Retrieved
27 February
2019
.
↑
"Burna Boy"
.
GRAMMY.com
. 2019-11-19
. Retrieved
2019-11-22
.
↑
"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Nominated For Grammy Award With Beyonce"
.
Sahara Reporters
. Retrieved
2018-02-10
.
↑
Idoko, Salihu.
"Wizkid nominated for Grammy Awards"
.
Premium Times
. Retrieved
2018-02-10
.
↑
Jeffrey, Akonedo.
"Wizkid' Balogun Wins Grammy For Brown Skin Girl'
"
.
MPmania
. Mpmania
. Retrieved
14 March
2021
.
↑
"Grammys 2018: Here Are Ten Nigerians Who Have Been Nominated For A Grammy In The Past"
.
thenet.ng
. Retrieved
2018-02-10
.
↑
"Burna Boy, Wizkid among Grammy 2021 nominees"
.
africanews.com
. Retrieved
December 15,
2020
.
↑
"Grammys Awards: Burna Boy, Wizkid Win At Music 2021"
.
naijastudio.com
. Archived from the original on March 14, 2021
. Retrieved
14 March
2021
.
↑
Sikiru Adepoju wins Grammy
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