2022 Headies Award: A Complete List of Winners

The Headies award (formerly known as the Hip Hop World Awards) is a yearly Nigerian music award that is meant to recognise and honour Nigerian musicians.

 

The Headies 2022 was the 15th edition of Nigeria's music awards, The Headies. It was hosted on Sunday, September 4th, 2022, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

 

Since the award's inception in 2007, this will be the first time it will be held outside of Nigeria, which has really added more glamour to Nigerian Afrobeats and displayed the culture of Nigerian music to the whole world in a new dimension. What a global celebration!

 

The complete list of winners is as follows:

BEST RECORDING OF THE YEAR:

“Celebrate Me” – Patoranking (Winner)

 

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR:

Winner - Fave

 

ALBUM OF THE YEAR:

Made In Lagos (Deluxe Edition) – Wizkid (Winner)

 

SONG OF THE YEAR:

“Essence” – Wizkid Feat. Tems (Winner)

 

BEST FEMALE ARTISTE:

Winner - Tems

 

BEST MALE ARTISTE:

Winner - Burna Boy

 

DIGITAL ARTISTE OF THE YEAR:

Winner - Ayra Starr

 

AFRICAN ARTISTE OF THE YEAR:

Winner - Burna Boy (Nigeria)

 

BEST STREET-HOP ARTISTE:

Winner - Goya Menor & Nektunez – “Amenor Amapiano Remix”

 

INTERNATIONAL ARTISTE RECOGNITION:

Winner - Chris Brown

 

BEST CENTRAL AFRICAN ARTISTE OF THE YEAR:

Winner - Innoss’b

 

BEST WEST AFRICAN ARTISTE OF THE YEAR:

Winner - Gyakie (Ghana)

 

BEST NORTH AFRICAN ARTISTE OF THE YEAR:

Winner - Latifa (Tunisia)

 

BEST SOUTHERN AFRICAN ARTISTE OF THE YEAR:

Winner - Focalistic (South Africa)

 

BEST EAST AFRICAN ARTISTE OF THE YEAR:

Winner - Diamond Platinumz

 

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE (MALE):

Winner - Oxlade – Ojuju

 

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE (FEMALE):

Winner - Waje – “Last Time”

 

LYRICIST ON THE ROLL:

Winner - A-Q – “The Last Cypher”

 

BEST RAP SINGLE:

“Feeling” – Ladipoe  feat. Bnxn (Winner)

 

BEST MUSIC VIDEO:

“Champion” (Fireboy DML Feat. D Smoke - Winner) Directed by Tg Omori

 

BEST RAP ALBUM:

Carpe Diem – Olamide (Winner)

 

BEST REGGAE & DANCEHALL ALBUM:

Three – Patoranking (Winner)

 

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR:

Sarz – “Monalisa” By Lojay & Sarz (Winner)

 

BEST INSPIRATIONAL SINGLE:

“Cultural Praise” – Kcee & Okwesili Eze Group (Winner)

 

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR:

Winner - Adekunle Gold – “Sinner”

 

BEST R&B SINGLE:

“Essence” – Wizkid feat. Tems (Winner)

 

BEST AFROBEATS SINGLE

“Peru” – Fireboy DML (Winner)

 

BEST ALTERNATIVE SINGLE:

“Doings” – Flavour (Winner)

 

BEST ALTERNATIVE ALBUM:

Intermission – Ibejii (Winner)

 

SPECIAL RECOGNITION (OUTSTANDING IMPACT ON THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY):

Winner - Efe Omorogbe

Winner - Sunday Are

Winner - Bose Ogulu

 

SPECIAL RECOGNITION (TALENT):

Winner - D’banj

 

HEADIES’ VIEWER’S CHOICE:

Winner - Ayra Starr – Bloody Samaritan

 

NEXT RATED:

Winner - Bnxn

 

BEST R&B ALBUM:                             

If Orange Was a Place – Tems (Winner)

 

HUMANITARIAN AWARD OF THE YEAR:

Winner - David