The MOBO Awards (Music of Black Origin) is an annual musical event. It is a British musical award ceremony for honoring great achievements and excellency in the music industry for artists of black Origin, and these include categories like hip hop R&B, Soul, gospel, reggae grime, jazz and African music.
MOBO organization was formed by kanya kings, it was lunched in 1996. Since the inception of the MOBO Awards, it has remarkable risen to one of the biggest musical award events in Europe. It has also become an important and very influential musical event for music lovers, makers and fans.
MOBO Awards was last held in 2017, when it has some little hiatus before going on break, however, the event confirmed it would be returning by 2020 and it would be supported by BBC and Youtube respectively. This partnership would help the event to be live streamed, and there would be total coverage of special series of backstage content, performances and series of backstage interviews from the award ceremony. With Youtube and BBC partnership with MOBO organization, this year award would be watched by a global audience. This years award would take place in the city of Coventry, the British town of culture, on the 5th of December 2021 at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
This years award, bring together a lot of good artists with great songs in all categories. British rapper, Dave, has the most nominations this year with five nominations, while on the African scene Wizkid and Rema has two nominations each to lead the African scene.
Full list of MOBO Award Nominees
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
- ARLO PARKS – “COLLAPSED IN SUNBEAMS”
- CELESTE – “NOT YOUR MUSE”
- CLEO SOL – “MOTHER”
- DAVE – “WE’RE ALL ALONE IN THIS TOGETHER”
- GHETTS – “CONFLICT OF INTEREST”
- HEADIE ONE – “EDNA”
- BEST R&B/SOUL ACT
- BELLAH
- CLEO SOL
- JORJA SMITH
- SAULT
- TIANA MAJOR9
- WSTRN
- BEST GRIME ACT
- BUGZY MALONE
- CHIP
- D DOUBLE E
- FRISCO
- GHETTS
- SKEPTA
- BEST HIP HOP ACT
- DAVE
- D-BLOCK EUROPE
- FREDO
- LITTLE SIMZ
- POTTER PAYPER
- SLOW THAI
- BEST MALE ACT
- AJ TRACEY
- CENTRAL CEE
- DAVE
- GHETTS
- HEADIE ONE
- POTTER PAYPER
- BEST FEMALE ACT
- ARLO PARKS
- BREE RUNWAY
- CLEO SOL
- LITTLE SIMZ
- SHAYBO
- TIANA MAJOR9
- ALBUM OF THE YEAR
- ARLO PARKS – “COLLAPSED IN SUNBEAMS”
- CELESTE – “NOT YOUR MUSE”
- CLEO SOL – “MOTHER”
- DAVE – “WE’RE ALL ALONE IN THIS TOGETHER”
- GHETTS – “CONFLICT OF INTEREST”
- HEADIE ONE – “EDNA”
- SONG OF THE YEAR – IN ASSOCIATION WITH COVENTRY BUILDING SOCIETY
- A1 X J1 – ‘LATEST TRENDS’
- CENTRAL CEE – ‘COMMITMENT ISSUES’
- DAVE FEAT. STORMZY – ‘CLASH’
- ENNY FEAT. AMIA BRAVE – ‘PENG BLACK GIRLS’
- PA SALIEU FEAT. BACKROAD GEE – ‘MY FAMILY’
- TION WAYNE & RUSS MILLIONS, ARRDEE, BUGZY MALONE, BUNI, DARKOO, E1 (3X3), FIVIO
- FOREIGN & ZT (3X3) – ‘BODY (REMIX)’
- BEST NEWCOMER – IN ASSOCIATION WITH ASOS
- ARLO PARKS
- ARRDEE
- BACKROAD GEE
- BERWYN
- CENTRAL CEE
- ENNY
- JOY CROOKES
- MIDAS THE JAGABAN
- PINKPANTHERESS
- WES NELSON
- BEST DRILL ACT – IN ASSOCIATION WITH TRENCH
- CENTRAL CEE
- DIGGA D
- HEADIE ONE
- K TRAP
- LOSKI
- M1LLIONZ
- RUSS MILLIONS
- SR
- TION WAYNE
- UNKNOWN T
- VIDEO OF THE YEAR
- BREE RUNWAY – ‘HOT HOT’ (DIRECTED BY JOCELYN ANQUETIL)
- FREDO FEAT. DAVE – ‘MONEY TALKS’ (DIRECTED BY EDEM WORNOO)
- LITTLE SIMZ FEAT. CLEO SOL – ‘WOMAN’ (DIRECTED BY LITTLE SIMZ)
- M1LLIONZ – ‘LAGGA’ (DIRECTED BY TEEEEZY C)
- PA SALIEU FEAT. BACKROAD GEE – ‘MY FAMILY’ (DIRECTED BY FEMI LADI)
- SLOWTHAI FEAT. A$AP ROCKY – ‘MAZZA’ (DIRECTED BY THE REST)
- BEST INTERNATIONAL ACT
- DOJA CAT
- DRAKE
- KANYE WEST
- LIL NAS X
- MEGAN THEE STALLION
- POLO G
- REMA
- SKILLIBENG
- WIZKID
- YOUNG STONER LIFE (YOUNG THUG & GUNNA)
- BEST PERFORMANCE IN A TV SHOW/FILM
- ASHLEY THOMAS AS HENRY IN ‘THEM’
- DAMSON IDRIS AS FRANKLIN SAINT IN ‘SNOWFALL’
- DANIEL KALUUYA AS FRED HAMPTON IN ‘JUDAS & THE BLACK MESSIAH’
- LETITIA WRIGHT AS ALTHEIA JONES-LECOINTE IN ‘SMALL AXE’
- MICHEAL WARD AS FRANKLYN IN ‘SMALL AXE’
- BEST MEDIA PERSONALITY
- CHARLENE WHITE
- CHUNKZ & YUNG FILLY
- HARRY PINERO
- HENRIE KWUSHUE
- JULIE ADENUGA
- MAYA JAMA
- MO GILLIGAN
- MUNYA CHAWAWA
- NELLA ROSE
- ZEZE MILLZ
- BEST GOSPEL ACT – IN ASSOCIATION WITH PREMIER GOSPEL
- CALLEDOUT MUSIC
- CECE WINANS
- GUVNA B
- KIRK FRANKLIN
- MAVERICK CITY MUSIC
- S.O.
- BEST AFRICAN MUSIC ACT
- AYRA STARR
- BURNA BOY
- CKAY
- DAVIDO
- KING PROMISE
- NSG
- REMA
- TEMS
- TIWA SAVAGE
- WIZKID
- BEST REGGAE ACT
- LILA IKE
- POPCAAN
- SEAN PAUL
- SHENSEEA
- SKILLIBENG
- SPICE
- BEST JAZZ ACT
- ALFA MIST
- BLUE LAB BEATS
- EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY
- JACOB COLLIER
- NUBIYAN TWIST
- SONS OF KEMET
- BEST PRODUCER – IN ASSOCIATION WITH COMPLEX UK
- GOTCHA
- JAE 5
- JULS
- M1ONTHEBEAT
- P2J
- TSB.
- ALLIYU
