GBEDU AWARDS: Press Release

Gbedu, the regional music streaming service powering music discovery in Africa, recently announced its first-ever Gbedu Awards to recognize the creative achievements of African Artists who are breaking boundaries daily to make really fantastic music that puts Africa on the global stage. 

The Gbedu Awards, which is employing a no-voting system, is choosing winners strictly based on Artists' music streaming data. This makes it the first music awards in the world to be completely backed with and based on streaming numbers, reflecting how much fan loyalty each Artist has and how much of these fans across the world are drawn to them as much as they are drawn to their music all year round.

Gbedu Awards 2020 winners are:

Female Artist of the Year: Tems (Temilade Openiyi)

Male Artist of the Year: Fireboy DML (Adedamola Adefolahan)

Breakthrough Artist of the Year: Bella Shmurda (Akinbiyi Abiola Ahmed)

Alternative Artist of the Year: Oxlade (Ikuforiji Olaitan Abdulrahman)

DSCVR Artist of the Year: Busayo Oninla

Album of the Year: Laughter, Tears and Goosebumps [Fireboy DML]

Gospel Artist of the Year: Mercy Chinwo

Song of the Year: Nobody [DJ Neptune - Imohiosen Patrick]

Radio of the Year: Wave Radio

Show of the Year: New Music Friday Show with Fadehan

Adedayo Ayoade, Product Lead at Gbedu, has noted that in the weeks leading to the awards, "there has been a paradigm shift in the music industry in Africa - we are breaking the limits and setting new marks by showing Artists, their managers, labels, other stakeholders and importantly, fans globally, the possibilities of digital streaming in Africa, the most important numbers to start looking at, as well as the value that comes with it."

He went on to say that "due to the restrictions posed by the pandemic, we have innovated and produced the first virtual award show to be indeed produced for Digital. The Gbedu Awards show, presented by our friends at Eyowo, will be featuring electrifying pre-produced performances from Fireboy DML, Oxlade, Bella Shmurda, Busayo Oninla and DJ Neptune"

Gbedu has partnered with video-making and social networking service, Triller, who will be premiering the award show live to their 69 million users globally, on Saturday, February 27 at 8:00 PM WAT.

This inaugural Gbedu Awards will birth Gbedu Charts, the most credible music charting system in Africa, showing the real-time ranking of Artists' music on Gbedu.