5 things you didn't know about the Ghana Music Awards

The Ghana Music Awards was established in 2000 by Charter House Production to celebrate Ghanaian musicians. The awards are presented annually and are broadcast on our various media platforms. The awards ceremony feature performance by artists both local and outside Ghana.

Artist of the Year is the topmost award at the Ghana Music Awards, given to the artist adjudged by the Academy, Board and the general public as having the highest audience appeal and popularity. The artist must have released a hit single/album during the year under review.

Here are some fact you didn't know about the Ghana Music Awards

1. COLLECTION OF ENTRIES /NOMINATION / CATEGORISATION PROCESS 

A blank list of categories is made available for download online at www.ghanamusicawards.com along with definitions. Hard copies of the list are also made available to industry practitioners in all ten (10) Regions of the country via Radio station DJs, public events DJs, etc.

For the first time in the history of the scheme, forms were also filled and submitted online at www.entry.ghanamusiciawards.com.

• Entries were also received from the following:
• Published call for entries in the Press
• Nomination forms submitted by Record Companies.
• Google and other internet search engines are used to track online releases and to verify dates of release
• Data from Mobile Content companies are also used to verify releases
• Nominations gathered are subjected to shortlisting by members of the VGMA BOARD. 

 

2. THE CATEGORISATION PROCESS

The VGMA Board compiles all entries received into the appropriate categories and provides a final nominations list which is published for public voting. It is a very tedious and painstaking exercise which requires a number of settings to generate the final list of Nominees.

 

3. AWARDS CATEGORIES

* 15 Public Voting Categories

* 12 Industry Voting Categories

* 3 Honorary Categories

 

4.ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible for a VGMA 2018 the work should have been released between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2017

 

5.VOTING PROCESS

The VGMA maintains the 3 tier voting system i.e. the Public, the VGMA Academy and the VGMA Board with the various percentage splits

Most Popular Song: Public: 100%

Public Voting Awards:

Public: 40%

VGMA Academy: 30%

VGMA Board: 30%

Industry Voting Categories:

VGMA Academy: 50%

VGMA Board: 50%

Honorary Awards:

VGMA Board – 100%

 

The event will take place this Saturday, April 14 at the Accra International Conference Center.

 

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