Full List of Ghana Music Awards 2012 Nominations

Earlier today, Charter House, organizers of the prestigious Vodafone Ghana Music Awards 2012 dubbed VGMA 2012 announced nominations for the 13^th edition of Ghana Music Awards live on GH One Entertainment Television.

The announcement which was postponed from February 28 to today, February 29 had Sarkodie Okyeame Kwame and Eyfa leading in the number of nomination. This year’s event had little changes been made. Three (3) new categories have been added. They include Gospel Album of the Year, Group of the Year, and Sound Engineer of the Year. This brings to a total of twenty-nine (29) categories. Last year’s event had twenty-six (26) categories.

The ‘Rapperholic’ Sarkodie scored twelve (12) nominations out of the twenty-nine (29) categories. History is about to repeat it self is what most people would say. The Best Collaboration of the year category had the rapper’s name in almost all the nominations; ‘Sweetio’ by sensational Raquel, the most played song in 2011, ‘U GO Kill Me’ which featured EL and ‘I’m in Love With You” featuring Efya.
Other categories which Ghana’s fastest rapper was nominated were; Artiste(S) Of The Year, Hiplife Song Of

The Year, Most Popular Song Of The Year, Hiphop Song Of The Year, Best Rapper Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Song Writer Of The Year,  Best Collaboration  Of The Year, Album of the Year and Hiplife/Hiphop Artiste(s) Of The Year.
The winner of this year’s Artiste of the Year goes home with a cool GH¢100,000. In the meantime watchout for the nominees’ party on March 10 in the Oil City, March 24 in Kumasi with the climax on 31^st March.

BELOW IS THE FULL LIST OF THE NOMINEES FOR PUBLIC VOTING :

1. Artiste(s) of the Year * Becca * Okyeame Kwame * Sarkodie * Efya * R2Bees * 4x4 * Kwaw Kesse 2. Hiplife/Hip Hop Artiste(s) of the Year * Stay Jay * Okyeame Kwame * 4x4 * Sarkodie * D-Cryme * Kwaw Kese * R2Bees 3. Highlife Artiste(s) of the Year * Daddy Lumba * K. K Fosu * Kwabena Kwabena * Kwasie Pee * George Darko * Lucky Mensah 4. Gospel Artiste(s) of the Year * DSP Kofi Sarpong * Gifty Osei * Philipa Baafi * Lady Prempeh * Bernice Ansah * Selina Boateng 5. Best New Artiste of the Year * Atumpan * Racquel * Stay Jay * D-Cryme * EL * Zigi 6. Best Collaboration of the year * Trigmatic/Raquel - Aageii * Fuse ODG/Tiffany - Azonto * Raquel/Sarkodie - Sweetieo * Eduwordzi/Stay Jay - Yenko Nkoa * Okyeame Kwame/Bertha - Faithful * Sarkodie/Efya - I'm In Love With You * Sarkodie/EL - You Go Kill Me 7. African Artiste(s) of the Year (Non Ghanaian) * Naeto C * Duncan Mighty * Ice Prince * D'banj * Cabo Snoop * Wizkid * MI 8. Hiplife Song of the Year * Stay Jay - Shashee Wowo * Eduwordzi - Yenko Nkoa * 4X4 - Yesi Yesii * Sarkodie - U go kill Me * Okyeame Kwame - Faithful * Buk Bak - Kolom * D Cryme - Kill Me Shy 9. Highlife Song of the Year * George Darko - Lucky Star * Lucky Mensah - Nkratuor * Kwabena Maphia - I Go pay * Daddy Lumba - Ko Hye Po * Kwabena Kwabena - Be Gye Me * K. K Fosu - Akoma 10. Most Popular Song of the Year * 4 x 4 - Yesi Yesii * Stay Jay - Shashee Wowo * Selina Boateng - Me Nku Me Ho * D Cryme - Kill Me Shy * Sarkodie - U go Kill Me * Zigi - You Say Wetin * Atumpan - The Thing * Okyeame Kwame - Faithful 11. Afro-Pop Song of the Year * Ruff N Smooth - Beautiful * Becca - African Woman * Fuse ODG - Azonto * Zigi - U Say Wey Tin * Atumpan - The Thing * Zigi - You Say Wetin * Atumpan - The Thing * Raquel - Sweetieo * Chase - Tell Me Your Name 12. Hip Hop Song of the Year * Bra Kevin - Three Headed Beast * D-Black - My Kind Of Girl * Sarkodie - I'm In Love With You * Edem - Too Much * Guru - Mmaakuo * Kwaw Kese - Poppin 13. Gospel Song of the year * Lady Prempeh - Nsantaban * Gifty Osei - Fefeefe * Philipa Baafi - Dea Eba Wosem Afe Yi * Selina Boateng - Me Nku Me Ho * Jake Alolome - Tomorrow By This Time * DSP Kofi Sarpong - African Borborbo * Bernice Ansah - Final say 14. Reggae Song of the Year * Blakk Rasta - Miss Right * Sonni Balli - All They See * Edem - Ghetto Arise * Kesse - Oh Yes * Stonebwoy - Climax * Jupiter/Trigmatic - Uptown Downtown 15. Best Group of the Year * R2Bees * Buk Bak * Keche * Ruff 'n' Smooth * 4X4