Wizkid Set New MOBO Awards Record – See Full List Of Winners
Congratulations are in order for Wizkid as he wins another MOBO Award as “Best African Act” in 2020.
The MOBO Awards was held last night, Wednesday 9th December, 2020 virtually on YouTube.
The award organisers announced Wizkid as the winner of the “Best African Act” category. The category had a competitive lineup of stars like Davido, Burna Boy, Tiwa Savage, Stonebwoy, Shatta Wale, etc.
Wizkid made a new record of 4 MOBO awards, winning his first in 2011 as African Artiste of the year and 2016, in 2017 he won Best International Artiste of the year and 2020 he won the African Artiste of the year again.
This year Wizkid dropped his highly anticipated 4th studio album “Made in Lagos”. The project featured stars like Skepta, Burna Boy, Ella Mai, Damian Marley etc.
Here is a tweet from the MOBOs announcing the Starboy’s win.
See Full List of winners
2020 MOBO AWARDS WINNERS
BEST MALE ACT
HEADIE ONE
BEST FEMALE ACT
(IN ASSOCIATION WITH ISAWITFIRST)
MAHALIA
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
NINES – ‘CRABS IN A BUCKET’
SONG OF THE YEAR [PUBLIC VOTED]
YOUNG T & BUGSEY FEAT. HEADIE ONE – ‘DON’T RUSH’
BEST NEWCOMER
(IN ASSOCIATION WITH ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND)
[PUBLIC VOTED]
AITCH
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
NSG – ‘LUPITA’ (DIRECTED BY KEVIN HUDSON)
BEST R&B/SOUL ACT
MAHALIA
BEST HIP HOP ACT
NINES
BEST GRIME ACT [PUBLIC VOTED]
JME
BEST INTERNATIONAL ACT [PUBLIC VOTED]
BURNA BOY
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A TV SHOW/FILM [PUBLIC VOTED]
MICHEAL WARD AS MARCO – ‘BLUE STORY’
BEST MEDIA PERSONALITY [PUBLIC VOTED]
CHUNKZ
BEST ALBUM (2017 – 2019)
This is a one-off additional category just for this year’s MOBO Awards to highlight the best albums released from 1st September 2017 – 31st August 2019.
ELLA MAI – ‘ELLA MAI’
BEST AFRICAN ACT
(IN ASSOCIATION WITH AFROZONS)
[PUBLIC VOTED]
WIZKID
BEST REGGAE ACT
BUJU BANTON
BEST GOSPEL ACT
(IN ASSOCIATION WITH PREMIER GOSPEL)
CALLEDOUT MUSIC
BEST JAZZ ACT(IN ASSOCIATION WITH BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC)
EGO ELLA MAY
BEST PRODUCER
JAE 5
INSPIRATION AWARD
STEVE MCQUEEN