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The South African singer Tyla has received several awards and honorary accolade. Tyla was named the youngest African soloist to win a Grammy Award in 2024. [1] Her accolades include MTV Video Music Award, [2] BET Awards (2), [3] Basadi in Music Awards (3), [4] and Metro FM Music Award. [5]
Tyla started off covering pop songs before she joined the amapiano wave. [6] She released her debut single "Getting Late" in 2019 and was nominated for Best Music Video of the Year at the 28th annual South African Music Awards in 2022. [7] [8] In 2023, she released "Been Thinking" which was nominated for Best Produced Music Video at the 29th annual South African Music Awards, [9] and she won the Best Female Artist award at the 9th annual African Entertainment Awards USA later that year. [10] She was also nominated for Best New Artist at the 2023 Soul Train Music Awards, [11] and Best African Music Act at the MOBO Awards 2023. [12]
Tyla's breakthrough single, "Water", taken off her debut self-titled studio album (2024) was the first recipient to win the inaugural Best African Music Performance at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards. [13] Tyla went on to win the most awards at the 2024 BET Awards, tying with American singers Usher and Victoria Monét at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California, [14] where she was named the Best New Artist, [15] and Best International Act. [16] In her native South Africa, Tyla won Song of the Year, International Achievement and Highest Airplay at the 3rd annual Basadi In Music Awards, [4] Best International Act at the 2024 Cultural and Creative Industry Awards, [17] and Most Stylish Performing Artist at the 2024 South African Style Awards. [18] With six nominations, Tyla led the 18th Metro FM Music Awards' nomination list, [19] and she was awarded the Global Icon Award. [5] Tyla's nominations including the Best New Artist and Best R&B Video at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, [20] BET Award for Viewer's Choice, [21] Metro FM Music Award for Song of the Year, [22] and Brit Award for International Song. [23] Tyla was among the five chart toppers honoured by Billboard , [24] she received a Global Force Award at the inaugural Billboard R&B's No. 1s. [25]
Organization | Year | Award | Recipient or nominee | Result | Ref. |
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3Music Awards | 2024 | African Song of the Year | "Water" | Pending | [26] |
African Act of the Year | Herself | Pending | |||
African Entertainment Awards USA | 2023 | Best Female Artist | Won | [10] | |
Basadi in Music Awards | 2024 | Artist of the Year | Nominated | [27] | |
International Achievement | Won | [4] | |||
Highest Airplay | Won | ||||
Best Styled Artist of the Year | Nominated | [27] | |||
Pop Artist of the Year | "Water" | Nominated | |||
Music Video of the Year | Nominated | ||||
Song of the Year | Won | [4] | |||
BBC | 2024 | Sound of 2024 | Herself | Fourth | [28] |
BET Awards | 2024 | Best Female R&B/Pop Artist | Nominated | [29] | |
Best New Artist | Won | [3] | |||
Best International Act | Won | [30] | |||
Viewer's Choice Award | "Water" | Nominated | [21] | ||
BreakTudo Awards | 2024 | International Video of the Year | Pending | [31] | |
Rising International Artist | Herself | Pending | |||
International Crush | Pending | ||||
BRIT Awards | 2024 | International Song | "Water" | Nominated | [23] |
Cultural and Creative Industry Awards | 2024 | Best International Act | Herself | Won | [17] |
Best Newcomer | Nominated | [32] | |||
DStv Content Creator Awards | 2024 | Song of the Year | "Water" | Pending | [33] |
Grammy Awards | 2024 | Best African Music Performance | Won | [34] | |
iHeartRadio Music Awards | 2024 | Best African Music Artist | Herself | Nominated | [35] |
Best Lyrics | "Water" | Nominated | |||
TikTok Bop of the Year | Nominated | ||||
Ivor Novello Awards | 2024 | Best Contemporary Song | Nominated | [36] | |
Metro FM Music Awards | 2024 | Song of the Year | Nominated | [22] | |
Best Music Video | Nominated | ||||
Best Viral Challenge | Nominated | ||||
Best R&B | Nominated | ||||
Best Female Artist | Herself | Nominated | |||
Artist of the Year | Nominated | ||||
Global Icon Award | Won | [5] | |||
MOBO Awards | 2023 | Best African Music Act | Nominated | [12] | |
MTV Video Music Awards | 2024 | Best New Artist | Nominated | [20] | |
Best R&B Video | "Water" | Nominated | |||
Best Afrobeats Video | Won | [2] | |||
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards | 2024 | Favorite Breakout Artist | Herself | Nominated | [37] |
Favorite Global Music Star | Nominated | ||||
Favorite Viral Song | "Water" | Nominated | |||
Soul Train Music Awards | 2023 | Best New Artist | Herself | Nominated | [38] |
South African Music Awards | 2022 | Music Video of the Year | "Getting Late" (featuring Kooldrink) | Nominated | [7] |
2023 | Best Produced Music Video | "Been Thinking" | Nominated | [9] | |
2024 | RiSA Audio Visual Music Video of the Year | "Water" | Pending | [39] | |
Motsepe Foundation Record of the Year | Pending | ||||
South African Style Awards | 2024 | Most Stylish Performing Artist | Herself | Won | [18] |
Publication | Year | List | Work | Rank | Ref. |
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2023 | |||||
The Africa Report | 2023 | Top Music Hits of 2023 | "Water" | 2 | [40] |
Barack Obama's Favorite Music | Barack Obama's Favorite Music of 2023 | — | [41] | ||
BBC | The best songs of 2023 | 10 | [42] | ||
Billboard | The 100 Best Songs of 2023 | 18 | [43] | ||
Capital UK | The Best Songs of 2023 | 5 | [44] | ||
Complex | The 50 Best Songs Of 2023 | 6 | [45] | ||
Crack | The Top 25 Tracks of the Year | 25 | [46] | ||
The Hollywood Reporter | The 10 Best Songs of 2023 | 10 | [47] | ||
IOL | Top 5 Local Songs of 2023 | 1 | [48] | ||
Los Angeles Times | The 100 best songs of 2023 | 32 | [49] | ||
NME | The 50 best songs of 2023 | 11 | [50] | ||
NPR | The 123 Best Songs of 2023 | — | [51] | ||
OkayAfrica | The 20 Best South African Songs of 2023 | — | [52] | ||
Rolling Stone | The 100 Best Songs of 2023 | 68 | [53] | ||
The 40 Best Afropop Songs of 2023 | 1 | [54] | |||
Stereogum | The Top 40 Pop Songs Of 2023 | 3 | [55] | ||
Variety | The Best Songs of 2023 | — | [56] | ||
2024 | |||||
Barack Obama's summer playlist | 2024 | Barack Obama's 2024 summer play | "Jump" | — | [57] |
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In her acceptance speech, Tyla reflected on what the award means to her as an artist coming from South Africa. "This is crazy that I'm being honoured tonight, what the heck yeah just thank you so much."