Full Nomination List for 2026 Telecel Ghana Music Awards

The nomination for the 27th Telecel Ghana Music Awards (TGMAs) were unveiled during an announcement event held at the Palm Conventions Centre.

Checkout Below the Full List of Nominees — 2026 Telecel Ghana Music Awards

Best Hiplife Song

Medikal ft Shatta Wale & Beeztrap KOTM — Shoulder is among the TGMA 2026 nominees.

Fameye ft Ofori Amponsah — Notin I Get

Ko-Jo Cue ft Sarkodie — Abebrese

Sarkodie ft Kweku Flick — Messiah

Kweku Smoke — Badness

Best Highlife Song

Kofi Kinaata — It Is Finished

King Paluta — Foko!

Kwabena Kwabena ft Stonebwoy & Kofi Kinaata — Aso II

Amerado — Obiaa Wo Ne Master

Kuami Eugene — Do Better

Best Traditional Gospel Song

Joyce Blessing ft King Paluta — Correct

Piesie Esther — Waye Me Yie

Mabel Okyere — So Far So Good

Kofi Owusu Peprah ft Diana Hamilton — Mesadea

Celestine Donkor ft Diana Hamilton — Akorfa

Paul Naan — Baba God (Matthew 6:26)

Best Hip-Hop Song

Black Sherif — Where Dem Boyz

O’Kenneth — Balenciaga

Sarkodie ft Kweku Smoke — Violence

Kweku Smoke — Aduro Borga

Larruso — Same Time

Ladipoe — Chat

Best Afropop Song

Black Sherif — Sacrifice

Stonebwoy — Gidi Gidi

Olivetheboy ft Sarkodie — Bend

Gyakie — Sankofa

King Promise ft MzVee — See What We’ve Done

Best Music Video

Excellent — Kojo Blak ft Kelvyn Boy (Dir. Babs Direction)

Sanction — Black Sherif (Dir. Awudu Musa)

Welcome to Africa — Medikal (Dir. XBills Ebenezer)

Shire — Stonebwoy (Dir. Yaw Skyface)

Chaman — Samini (Dir. Yaw Skyface)

Put Am On — AratheJay (Dir. David Duncan)

Best Afrobeats Song

Kojo Blak & Kelvyn Boy — Excellent

KiDi ft Olivetheboy & Kojo Blak — Gymnastic

Wendy Shay ft Olivetheboy — Crazy Love

Mr Drew ft Olivetheboy — OMG

Lasmid ft King Promise — No Issues

Best Male Vocal Performance

Akwaboah — Akoma

Deon Boakye — Time Lapsesion

Perez Musik — My Prayer

Josh Blakk — Catch 22

Carl Clottey — Yehowa

Best Female Vocal Performance

Nhana — Amɛn

Grace Charles (Team Eternity GH) — Save Me Through

Niiella — Show Me How to Love

Cina Soul — Dɔ

Lordina The Soprano — Rani (Inokwe)

Best Afrobeats/Afropop Artiste

Wendy Shay

Kuami Eugene

KiDi

Olivetheboy

Molly

Best Highlife Artiste

Fameye

King Paluta

Kwabena Kwabena

Kofi Kinaata

Kuami Eugene

Best Rap Performance

Strongman — Mensei Da

Ko-Jo Cue — Abebrese

Lyrical Joe — 5th August

Joe Kay — 4G

Medikal — Welcome to Africa

Sarkodie — Violence

Best Hiplife/Hip-Hop Artiste

Black Sherif

Medikal

Kweku Smoke

Sarkodie

Ko-Jo Cue

O’Kenneth

Collaboration of the Year

Kojo Blak ft Kelvyn Boy — Excellent

KiDi ft Olivetheboy & Kojo Blak — Gymnastic

Wendy Shay ft Olivetheboy — Crazy Love

Sarkodie ft Kweku Smoke — Violence

Medikal ft Shatta Wale & Beeztrap — Shoulder

Kwabena Kwabena ft Stonebwoy & Kofi Kinaata — Aso II

International Collaboration of the Year

Moliy, Silent Addy & Skillibeng — Shake It to the Max (RMX)

Black Sherif ft Fireboy DML — So It Goes

Wendy Shay ft Mavado — Too Late Remix

King Promise ft Fridayy — Terminator RMX

Lasmid ft Tml Vibez — Meet 4 U

Moliy ft Tyla — Body On Me

Songwriter of the Year

Black Sherif — Sacrifice

Kofi Kinaata — Have Mercy II

Cofiboham — Take Me Home

Ko-Jo Cue — Abebrese

Akablay — Obi Nnyi (Obibini)

Stonebwoy — Send Them a Prayer

Best Urban/Contemporary Gospel Song

Ewura Abena — Efeɛba

Kofi Owusu Peprah — Big God Afro

Team Eternity — Defe Defe

Scott Evans — Ready

Kofi Kinaata — Saman

Carl Clottey ft Luigi Maclean — Yehowa

Best Gospel Artiste

Piesie Esther

Diana Hamilton

MOGmusic

Kofi Owusu Peprah

Mabel Okyere

Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta

Best Reggae/Dancehall Artiste

Samini

Ras Kuuku

Stonebwoy

Best Reggae/Dancehall Song

Moliy ft Silent Addy & Skillibeng — Shake It to the Max RMX

Stonebwoy — Torch

Cina Soul ft Stonebwoy — Larger Than Life

Samini — Summer King

AratheJay ft Stonebwoy — Talisman

Amerado — Pharaoh

Artiste of the Year