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Famous South African comedian and producer, Trevor Noah has been unveiled as the host of this year’s Grammy Awards.
The Eastern Updates reports that this is the 5th consecutive year that Noah will be hosting the music awards show since 2021.
The 67th GRAMMY Awards show which will take place in Los Angeles, on February 2, 2025, have Nigerian Afrobeats singers dominating the nomination of African Song Performance categories.
Burna Boy, earned a nod for his hit song, ‘Higher’. Asake was nominated for his collaboration with Wizkid, “MMS”.
Tems is the only African musician with 3 nominations across the global music categories.
Other singers that made the list include Davido, Yemi Alade and Lojay.
Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has been crowned Africa’s biggest earner on Spotify.
Music statistics monitoring platform, Chart Masters recently revealed the world’s artists earnings monthly earnings on Spotify and Wizkid emerged as Africa’s biggest earner with $1 million.
The list of Africa’s top ten earners is dominated by Nigerians, except for South Africa’s Tyla.
Full list:
1. Wizkid – $1 million
2. Burna Boy – $782,148
3. Tems – $660,210
4. Tyla – $607,804
5. Davido – $458,615
6. Asake – $451,553
7. Omah Lay – $421,123
8. Ayra Starr – $400,972
9. Rema – $367,973
Canadian rapper Drake and American singer, Taylor Swift are the world’s biggest earners on Spotify with $7,717,904 and $7,713,106, respectively.
The ‘Hotline Bling’ crooner topped the list of the top 10 biggest rappers of the 21st century recently released by the American magazine.
Nick Minaj was the only female rapper on the list.
Drake’s rival, Kendrick Lamar was ranked eight.
Eminem ranked second, Kanye West claimed third, Nelly was fourth, and Jay-Z rounded out the top five.
Full List:
1 Drake
2 Eminem
3 Ye (Kanye West)
4 Nelly
5 Jay-Z
6 Lil Wayne
7 50 Cent
8 Kendrick Lamar
9 Nicki Minaj
10 Ludacris