Wizkid, vocal powerhouse Simi and DMW boss Davido were the biggest winners of the Headies 2018.
Wizkid won four awards – Headies Viewers Choice Award (Come Closer), Best Music Video (Come Closer), Best RnB/Pop Album (Sounds From the Other Side), and Best Collabo, for his feature in Tiwa Savage‘s Ma Lo.
Simi carted home the Best RnB Single for Smile for Me, the Best Recording of the Year for Joromi, and her album – Simisola – won the Album of the Year.
Davido’s IF won the Best Pop Single and Song of the Year categories, and was also named the Artiste of the Year.
See full list of winners below:
Rookie of the Year
TENI
Best Rap Single
You Rappers Should Fix up your Life – M.I
Best Street Hop
Penalty – Small Doctor
Best Pop Single
IF – Davido
Best RnB Single
Smile for Me – Simi
Lyricist on the Roll
You Rappers Should Fix up your Lives – M.I
Best Performer
Yemi Alade
Producer of the Year
Kiddominant
Best Collabo
Ma Lo – Tiwa Savage feat. Wizkid
Best Reggae/Dancehall Single
Holy Holy – 2Baba
Best Recording of the Year
Joromi – Simi
Hip Hop World Revelation
Reekado Banks
Next Rated
Mayorkun
Best Alternative Song
Fun mi lo wo mi – Aramide feat. Sound Sultan & Koker
African Artiste of the Year
Nasty C
Headies Viewers’ Choice
Come Closer – Wizkid
Best Music Video
Come Closer – Wizkid. Directed by Daps
Best Vocal Performance (Female)
Butterflies – Omawumi
Best Vocal Performance (Male)
Folashade – Praiz
Best RnB/Pop Album
Sounds from the Other Side – Wizkid
Best Rap Album
El Hadj – Reminisce
Song of the Year
IF – Davido
Special Recognition Award
Album of the Year
Simisola – Simi
Artiste of the Year
Davido
Special Recognition Award
Kaffy
Headies Hall of Fame
Chris Ubosi
Awards were also presented to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Globacom, MTN, Nigerian Breweries Plc., and Pepsi, Hennessy.
Our favorite moments:
When (Part Of) The 30 Billion Gang Came to Receive Mayorkun’s “Next Rated” Award
They are not called a gang for nothing! They must represent; and they did when Mayorkun was announced as the winner of the coveted “Next Rated” award at the show. They literally “scattered everywhere”.
Simi Hails Her “Man”
Vocal powerhouse Simi who carted home 3 awards at the show – Best RnB Single for Smile for Me, the Best Recording of the Year for Joromi, and her album Simisola won the Album of the Year – in her appreciation speech for the latter, gave a shout out to her “man” who she says has been supporting her. And you guessed right; she didn’t mention a name. But no one mentioned Adekunle Gold sha.
Davido tells Artistes to Help As Many People as they Can
Davido, who also won three awards – IF won the Best Pop Single and Song of the Year categories, and was also named the Artiste of the Year – called on artistes to always lend a helping hand to people, noting that the over 2 dozen persons on stage with him have received one form of help or the other from him and he can’t wake up each day to see people in need without doing something. He says that’s why he’s blessed.
He thereafter challenged artistes to help others. He also dedicated the award to God, family ………… and of course, Chioma!