List of Nigerian Grammy Award winners and nominees

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

1. Femi Kuti was born in England and grew up in Nigeria.
2. Beyoncé is an American singer and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian, appears as a featured artist on one of the songs on the album.
3. 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.
4. Riton is an English musician and Kah-Lo, a Nigerian, appears as a featured artist on the song.
5. The album features a number of different artists from around the world, primarily Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju ^[12] and Giovanni Hidalgo
6. 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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3. "Hot Product". Billboard. 4 February 2002. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
4. "Grammy nominations 2019: Seun Kuti, Kendrick Lamar & Drake don gbab Grammys nomination". BBC. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
5. "Burna Boy". GRAMMY.com. 2019-11-19. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
6. "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Nominated For Grammy Award With Beyonce". Sahara Reporters. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
7. Idoko, Salihu. "Wizkid nominated for Grammy Awards". Premium Times. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
8. Jeffrey, Akonedo. "Wizkid' Balogun Wins Grammy For Brown Skin Girl'". MPmania. Mpmania. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
9. "Grammys 2018: Here Are Ten Nigerians Who Have Been Nominated For A Grammy In The Past". thenet.ng. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
10. "Burna Boy, Wizkid among Grammy 2021 nominees". africanews.com. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
11. "Grammys Awards: Burna Boy, Wizkid Win At Music 2021". naijastudio.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
12. Sikiru Adepoju wins Grammy