What is missing
Everything on this page is a hole in the official record, not in this archive's reading of it. Entries come off when they are filled, not before.
21 awards have no winner, and 15 of those are in the first three editions.
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Missing winner
7 entries.
8 categories are listed for 2000 with no winner recorded.
Music Distributor Of The Year · Executive Producer/Producer Of The Year · Highlife Brand Of The Year · Traditional Song Of The Year · Rap Song Of The Year · Fontomfrom Music Merit Award · Fontomfrom Music Ambassador Award · Fontomfrom Evergreen Award · The official winners table carries the category name and an empty winner cell.
2000 Open
4 categories are listed for 2001 with no winner recorded.
Contemporary Highlife Song Of The Year · Choral Group Of The Year · Traditional Song Of The Year · Hiplife-Rap Of The Year · The official winners table carries the category name and an empty winner cell.
2001 Open
3 categories are listed for 2002 with no winner recorded.
Contemporay Highlife Song Of The Year · Hiplife - Rap Of The Year · Traditional Song Of The Year · The official winners table carries the category name and an empty winner cell.
2002 Open
1 category is listed for 2005 with no winner recorded.
Gospel Album of the Year · The official winners table carries the category name and an empty winner cell.
2005 Open
1 category is listed for 2007 with no winner recorded.
Ghana @ 50 Music Merit Awards: · The official winners table carries the category name and an empty winner cell.
2007 Open
3 categories are listed for 2018 with no winner recorded.
Producer of the year · Sound Engineer of the year · Unsung · The official winners table carries the category name and an empty winner cell.
2018 Open
1 category is listed for 2019 with no winner recorded.
Traditional Artiste of the Year · The official winners table carries the category name and an empty winner cell.
2019 Open
Source conflict
1 entry.
Adane Best’s "Maafio" is recorded as winning both Hiplife Song of the Year and Highlife Song of the Year in 2003.
The same artist and song appear against two different genre awards in one edition, and the Highlife entry carries two further unlabelled winners beneath it. · Rows 17 and 24 of the 2003 table.
2003 Open
Structure
2 entries.
Highlife Song Of The Year (2003) is recorded with 3 winners.
The extra winners appear in rows with an empty category cell directly beneath. Read here as further winners of the award above; the source never says so. · Row order in the official table.
2003 Open
3. Performers (2007) is recorded with 6 winners.
The extra winners appear in rows with an empty category cell directly beneath. Read here as further winners of the award above; the source never says so. · Row order in the official table.
2007 Open
Transcription
7 entries.
"Best Female Vocal Performance" is misspelt in the official record.
"Best Female Vocal Performnace" (2003) · "Best Female Vocal Perfromance" (2004) · Compared against the same award’s spelling in every other edition.
2003 Open
"Best Male Vocal Performance" is misspelt in the official record.
"Best Male Vocal Perfromance" (2003) · Compared against the same award’s spelling in every other edition.
2003 Open
"Hiplife Album Of The Year" is misspelt in the official record.
"Hip Life Alum of the Year" (2007) · Compared against the same award’s spelling in every other edition.
2007 Open
"Contemporary Highlife Song of the Year" is misspelt in the official record.
"Contemporay Highlife Song Of The Year" (2002) · Compared against the same award’s spelling in every other edition.
2002 Open
"Best Music Video of the Year" is misspelt in the official record.
"Best music Video Year" (2011) · Compared against the same award’s spelling in every other edition.
2011 Open
"Vodafone Most Popular Song of the Year" is misspelt in the official record.
"Vodadone Most Popular Song of the Year" (2011) · Compared against the same award’s spelling in every other edition.
2011 Open
6 winning song titles are written differently in the official record than by the artists who released them.
"Sore -" → "Sore" · "Adom" → "Adom Grace" · "Behind the scene" → "Behind the Scenes" · "Oguamma" → "Oguama" · "Adun Lei" → "Aduŋ Lei" · "Say cheese" → "Say Cheese" · Compared against the released recordings. The last is the clearest: the official Ghanaian record drops the ŋ from a Ghanaian title.
2021 Open
Not collected
2 entries.
8 category playlists are planned and not built.
Highlife through the Ghana Music Awards (33 winners, 2000–2026) · Hiplife through the Ghana Music Awards (29 winners, 2000–2026) · Hip-Hop through the Ghana Music Awards (23 winners, 2009–2026) · Afropop to Afrobeats (23 winners, 2009–2026) · Gospel through the Ghana Music Awards (25 winners, 2000–2024) · The People’s Song (24 winners, 2000–2026) · Record of the Year (22 winners, 2005–2026) · Collaborations (28 winners, 2003–2026) · The winners are all in this archive; the playlists themselves do not exist on Spotify yet.
Open
The archive holds nominees for 5 categories of one edition out of 27.
Nominees come from the 2021 per-category playlists. The official record publishes winners only, so every other edition lists winners with no field of nominees behind them.
Open
If you have any of it
Ceremony programmes, newspaper reports and photographs from the early editions would close
most of this page. The first three editions are the worst recorded and the furthest out of living memory.