List of awards and nominations received by Davido

Davido awards and nominations

Davido performing at the 2014 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards

Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Ghana Music Awards 1 1 Nigeria Entertainment Awards 2 8 Channel O Music Video Awards 1 6 City People Entertainment Award 1 5 Nigeria Music Video Awards (NMVA) 0 8 4Syte TV Music Video Awards 2 8 Kora Awards 1 1 World Music Awards 0 7 MTV Africa Music Awards 2 4 BET Awards 2 8 African Muzik Magazine Awards 2 6 MOBO Awards 1 5 The Future Africa Awards 1 1 MTV Europe Music Awards 2 4 Grammy Awards 0 3

This is a list of major music awards and nominations received by Nigerian singer Davido.

African Entertainment Awards USA

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2024	Himself	Best Male Artist	Nominated	[1]
		Artist of the Year	Won
	"Drift"	Best Collaboration	Nominated
	"Hmmm"		Nominated
	"Na Money"	Best Music Video	Nominated
	"Ogechi Remix"	Song of the Year	Nominated

Berlin Music Video Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2024	Na Money	Best Art Director	Nominated

Grammy Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Refwin
2024	Timeless	Best Global Music Album	Nominated	[2]
	"Unavailable" (featuring Musa Keys)	Best African Music Performance	Nominated
	"Feel"	Best Global Music Performance	Nominated
2025	"11:11" (as a featured artist)	Best R&B Album	Won	[3]

Soul Train Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	Davido for "Aye"	Best International Performance	Nominated	[4]

The Future Africa Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	Himself	African Young Person of the Year	Nominated	[5]

Kora Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2012	Himself	Best Newcomer Award	Won	[6]

BET Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	Himself	Best International Act: Africa	Won	[7]

Ben TV Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	Himself	Best Male Artist	Nominated	[8]
	"Daddy" (Reminisce featuring Davido)	Best Collaboration	Nominated
	"Number One" Remix (Diamond Platnumz featuring Davido)	Best International Collaboration	Nominated
	"Aye"	Music Video of the Year	Won	[9]

Dynamix All Youth Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2011	Himself	Promising Youth Artiste	Won	[10]
	"Back When"	Song of the Year	Won

MOBO Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	Himself	Best African Act	Nominated	[11]

MTV Europe Music Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	Himself	Best African Act	Nominated	[12]

African Muzik Magazine Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	Himself	Best Male West Africa	Won	[13]
		Artist of the Year	Won
	"Skelewu"	Song of the Year	Nominated	[14]
		Best Dance in a Video	Nominated
	"Number One Remix"	Song of the Year	Nominated
		Best Collabo	Nominated

MTV Africa Music Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	Himself	Best Male	Won	[15]
		Artist of the Year
	"Number One" (Remix) (Diamond featuring Davido)	Best Collaboration	Nominated	[16]
	"Skelewu"	Song of the Year

World Music Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	Himself	World's Best Male Artist	Nominated	[17]
		World's Best Live Act	Nominated
		World's Best Entertainer Of The Year	Nominated

Channel O Music Video Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	"Aye"	Most Gifted Male	Nominated	[18]
		Most Gifted Afropop	Nominated
		Most Gifted West	Nominated
		Most Gifted Video	Nominated
	"Skelewu"	Most Gifted Dance	Nominated
2013	"Gobe"	Most Gifted Afro Pop Video	Nominated	[19]
2012	"Dami Duro"	Most Gifted Dance Video of the Year	Nominated	[20]
		Most Gifted Newcomer Video of the Year	Won	[21]

Nigeria Music Video Awards (NMVA)

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	"Aye"	Video of the Year	Nominated	[22]
		Indigenous Concept	Nominated
		Best Use Of Costumes	Nominated
		Best Afro Pop Video	Won
	"Tchelete (Goodlife)" (featuring Mafikizolo)	Best Pop Extra Video	Nominated
2013	"All of You"	Best Dance Hall/Reggae Video	Nominated	[23]
	"Gobe"	Best Pop Extra Video	Nominated
2012	"Dami Duro"	Best Video By A New Artiste (Live Beats Choice)	Won	[24]

4Syte TV Music Video Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	"Aye"	Best African Video	Nominated	[25]
2013	"Gobe"	Best African Act Video	Nominated	[26]
2012	"Dami Duro osezy"		Nominated	[27]

Ghana Music Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2024	Himself	African Artiste Of The Year	Won	[28]
2014			Won	[29]
2013			Nominated	[30]

City People Entertainment Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	Himself	Musician Of The Year (Male)	Won	[31]
	"Aye"	Most Popular Song of the Year	Nominated	[32]
		Video of the Year	Nominated
	"Daddy" (Reminisce featuring Davido)	Best Collabo of the Year	Nominated
2013	Himself	Musician of the Year (Male)	Nominated	[33]
		Best Hip-Hop Artiste of the Year	Nominated
	"Gobe"	Most Popular Song of the Year	Nominated

The Headies

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2018	Himself	Artiste of the Year	Won	[34] [35] [36]
	"If"	Song of the Year	Won
		Best Pop Single	Won
		Headies Viewer's Choice	Nominated
	"Like Dat"	Best Music Video	Nominated
2014	Himself	Artiste of the Year	Won	[37]
	"Aye"	Song of the Year	Won
		Best Pop Single	Nominated
2013	Himself	Artiste of the Year	Nominated	[38]
		Hip Hop World Revelation	Won	[39]
	"Omo Baba Olowo"	Best R&B/Pop Album	Won
		Album of the Year	Nominated	[38]
	"Gobe"	Best Pop Single	Nominated
2012	Himself	Next Rated	Won	[40]
	"Dami Duro"	Best Pop Single	Nominated	[41]
		Song of the Year	Nominated
	"Carolina" (Sauce Kid featuring Davido)	Best Collabo	Nominated
2022	Himself	Best Male Artist	Pending	[42]
		African Artist of the Year	Pending
		Humanitarian Award of the Year	Pending
	A Better Time	Best Afrobeats Album	Pending
2025	Himself	Artist of the year	Won	[43]

Nigeria Entertainment Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2014	"Aye"	Hottest Single of the Year	Won	[44]
	Himself	Male Artist of the Year	Won
	"Skelewu"	Best Music Video of the Year (Artist & Director)	Nominated	[45]
	"Gallardo" (RunTown featuring Davido)	Best Collaboration	Won	[44]
	"Mofe Lowo Ju Daddy Mi" (Reminisce featuring Davido)		Nominated	[45]
2013	O.B.O (Omo Baba Olowo)	Best Album of the Year	Nominated	[46]
	Himself	Best Pop/R&B Artiste of the Year	Won	[47]
2012	"Dami Duro"	Hottest Single of the Year	Won	[48]
	Himself	Best New Act of the Year	Won
	"Carolina" (Sauce Kid featuring Davido)	Best Collabo of the Year	Won

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref
2018	Davido	Favorite African Star	Nominated	[49]

AFRIMA

Year	Award Ceremony	Prize	Work/Recipient	Result	Ref
2019	AFRIMA	Artist of The Year	Himself	Pending	[50]
		Best Male West Africa		Pending
		Crossing Boundaries with Music Award		Pending

Net Honours

Year	Nominee/Work	Award	Result	Ref
2021	Himself	Most Searched Musician (male)	Won	[51]
	"Fem"	Most Played Pop Song	Nominated
	"The Best" featuring Mayorkun		Nominated
2022	Himself	Most Popular Musician (Male)	Won	[52]
		Most Searched Musician (Male)	Won
		Most Popular Fandom	Won

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