Davido, Olamide, Patoranking top winners at 9th Headies

Davido, Olamide and Patoranking took top honours at the 9th edition of the Headies Awards ceremony, which held on Sunday night at the Convention Centre, Eko Hotel and Suites.

In what can largely be regarded as a memorable event, due in no small part to the emceeing skills of Toke Makinwa and Basketmouth, the three musical artistes dominated the awards, taking home two statuettes each.

Davido won in the Song of the Year and Artiste of the Year categories, while Olamide won Best Rap Album and Album of the Year honours for the album ‘Baddest Guy Ever Liveth’.

Patoranking, who was the most successful for the night, won in the Best Reggae/Dancehall category (Girlie O), shared the limelight with Wizzy Pro in the Best Collaboration Category (Emergency) and was also crowned the Next Rated, for which he received a brand new Hyundai car.

Mavin Crew picked up Best Pop Single award for the song Dorobucci, which also earned Don Jazzy the Producer of the Year award.

Other winners in the top categories were Sean Tizzle for the Best R&B/Pop Album, Timi Dakolo (Iyawo Mi) for the Best Male Vocal Performance, and Niyola’s (Love to Love You) for the Best Female Vocal Performance.

KCee took home the statue for Hip-Hop Revelation while Victor Uwaifo was inducted into the Headies Hall of Fame.

Other early winners were Phyno for Best Rap Single and Oritse Femi for Best Street-hop. Mavins’ Reekado Banks took home the award for Rookie of the Year.

Artistes such as Yemi Alade, Runtown and a few others left the event without any statuettes.

The event was spiced with performances coming from Mavins’ Reekado Banks, Stars-On-Earth dancers, Lil Kesh, Harrysong, Nikki Laoye, Cynthia Morgan, Skales, KCee, Patoranking featuring Tiwa Savage, Timi Dakolo, Runtown, Yemi Alade, Dr. Sid, Blakky, among others.

Full list of winners…