Talented rapper, Olamide has emerged as the MTV Base Hottest Nigeria Artist of the Year, 2015. This year has been a big year for the YBNL boss with the successive release of hit songs since the first quarter of the year. Songs like Shakiti Bobo, Melo Melo, Lagos boys have gone on to be some of the major music hit tracks of the year. This year has seen this singles top the MTV Base Official Naija Top Ten for many weeks, in addition to his successful promotion of protégé, Lil Kesh, and the recent surprise release of his fifth studio album, ‘Eyan Mayweather’ which has been topping charts. The panel on the MTV Base TV special #BaseNaijaHottestArtist named Olamide as the Hottest artiste in Nigeria for the year 2015 after two days of intense debate.

On-Air Personalities, Omalicha, Do2dtun, Sade Ladipo and Olsia Adibua were in on the panel that decided the list. Entertainment journalist Osagie Alonge, DJ Spinall and VJ Ehiz were also on the panel. While Olamide bossed the first position, Wizkid and Davido occupied the 2nd and 3rd positions respectively. Newly acclaimed MTV Base hottest artiste, Olamide commented on the announcement, ‘It’s a great feeling to know that my work has made so much impact on Nigerians and i’m humbled by this announcement. Thank you MTV Base’. The show ranks the year’s ten biggest performing artists in Nigeria using a list of six criteria namely: Style, Impact, Sales/Success, Buzz, Music and Intangibles.

EME boss Banky W was on MTV base official naija top ten, and he dropped some heavy bars on D-Will produced instrumental for Jagaban (originally recorded by Ycee).

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Tanzanian act, Nasibu Abdul Juma, popularly known by his stage name Diamond Platnumz has been named as by MTV as the winner of the 2015 MTV EMAs Best African Act. Scores of music fans visited mtvema.com to vote for Diamond Platnumz, who beat incredible competition from AKA, Yemi Alade, Davido, and DJ Arafat. Diamond Platnumz will now go up against the winning act from India to be named Best Africa/India Act – and you can help him win. Voting is now open on mtvema.com until 24 October at 10:59pm. Diamond Platnumz follows in the footsteps of previous Best African Act winners Sauti Sol (2014), LCNVL (2013), D’Banj (2012 & 2007), Freshlyground (2006) and 2Face (2005).

The nominees are in and the race is on for the much-coveted 2015 MTV EMA Best African Act award.This year’s nominees for the Europe Music Awards 2015 are AKA (South Africa), Yemi Alade (Nigeria), Davido (Nigeria) and Diamond Platnumz (Tanzania), but there’s still one spot left. MTV is giving music lovers across the nation the power to tweet and vote for the fifth ‘wildcard’ nominee in the category. Voting is open until Monday 14 September at 23:59 CAT so get tweeting!

Fans can tweet and vote for one of the following artists to be the fifth Best African Act nominee using #MTVEMA and the artist’s hashtag:
Wizkid - #NominateWizkid
 K.O. - #NominateKO
Stonebwoy - #NominateStonebwoy
Cassper Nyovest - #NominateCassper
 DJ Arafat - #NominateDJArafat
Wildcard winners and nominees in all 2015 MTV EMA categories will be announced on 15 September at 13:00 CA, while voting will open on www.mtvema.com.
The 2015 MTV EMA will broadcast live on MTV (DStv channel 130) and MTV Base (DStv channel 322) on Sunday 25 October at 21:00 WAT/22:00 CAT from the Mediolanum Forum in Milan. Official pre-show begins at 20:00 WAT/21:00 CAT.