Western Music Awards opens nominations for 7th edition
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Westline Entertainment, organizers of the prestigious Western Music Awards open nominations for the 7th edition on Friday March 31, 2023.
The awards schemes has 29 categories in this year’s edition, taking out one category from last year. “The ‘Most streamed Artiste of the year’ became a challenge last year as Artistes were submitting conflicting figures from different streaming platforms. There is, therefore, the need for a clear definition with concentration on which of the streaming platforms we will concentrate on to determine the winner so for now it’s out, pending the board’s final decision” Nana Kwesi Coomson, head of Public Relations of Western Music Awards noted.
Works of Artistes and other stakeholders from February 2022 to January 2023 are considered eligible for this year’s Western Music Awards.
The deadline for nominations is April 30, 2023.
According to the Public Relations Department of the organizers, the theme for this year’s Western Music Awards is ‘This Is Music.’
All entries should be submitted via www.wmagh.com/submission by April 30, 2023.
The categories for nomination include:
1. Afropop Song of the year
2. Album/EP of the year
3. Artiste of The Year
4. Best Blogger/ Promoter of the year
5. Brass Band of the year
6. Best Collaboration of the year
7. Entertainment Show of the year
8. Most Popular Ghanaian Song of the year
9. Gospel Artiste of the year
10. Gospel Song of the year
11. Group of the year
12. Highlife Artiste of the year
13. Highlife Song of the year
14. Hiplife Artiste of the year
15. Hiplife song of the year
16. Hiphop Artiste of the year
17. Hiphop Song of the year
18. Music Video of the year
19. New Artiste of the year
20. Music Producer of the year
21. Radio DJ of the year
22. Rapper of the year
23. Reggae/Dancehall Artiste of the year
24. Reggae/Dancehall Song of the year
25. Most Popular Regional song of the year
26. Song Writer of the year
27. Urban Gospel Song of the year
28. Western Diaspora Artiste of the year
29. Best instrumentalist of the year
ABOUT: Nana Kwesi Coomson
[email protected] An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.
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