List of Nigerian Grammy Award winners and nominees

The following is a list of Grammy Awards winners and nominees from Nigeria:

Year	Category	Work	Artist	Result
Artists who won or were nominated for their original work
1984	Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording	Syncro System	King Sunny Adé^[1]	Nominated
1998	Best World Music Album	Love Drum Talk	Babatunde Olatunji	Nominated
1999	Best World Music Album	Odu	King Sunny Adé^[2]	Nominated
2002	Best Pop Vocal Album	Lovers Rock	Sade^[3]	Won
2003	Best World Music Album	Fight to Win	Femi Kuti ^[a]	Nominated
2010	Best Contemporary World Music Album	Day by Day	Femi Kuti	Nominated
2012	Best World Music Album	Africa for Africa	Femi Kuti	Nominated
2014	Best World Music Album	No Place for My Dream	Femi Kuti	Nominated
2019	Best World Music Album	Black Times	Seun Kuti & Egypt 80^[4]	Nominated
2020		African Giant	Burna Boy	Nominated
2021		Twice as Tall	Burna Boy ^[5]	Won
2022	Best Global Music Album	Made in Lagos Deluxe Edition	Wizkid	Nominated
	Best Global Music Album	Legacy +	Femi Kuti and Made Kuti	Nominated
	Best Global Music Performance	"Essence"	Wizkid featuring Tems	Nominated
		"Pà Pá Pà"	Femi Kuti	Nominated
2023		"Last Last"	Burna Boy	Nominated
2023	Best Global Music Album	Love Damini	Burna Boy	Nominated
2024	Best Global Music Album	Timeless	Davido	Nominated
	Best Global Music Performance	"Feel"		Nominated
	Best African Music Performance	"Unavailable"		Nominated
		"Rush"	Ayra Starr	Nominated
		"Amapiano"	Asake and Olamide	Nominated
		"City Boys"	Burna Boy	Nominated
	Best Melodic Rap Performance	"Sittin' on top of the World"		Nominated
	Best Global Music Album	I Told Them...		Nominated
2025	Best African Music Performance	"Tomorrow"	Yemi Alade	Nominated
		"MMS"	Asake and Wizkid	Nominated
		"Higher"	Burna Boy	Nominated
		"Love Me JeJe"	Tems	Won
	Best R&B Song	"Burning"		Nominated
	Best Global Music Album	Born in the Wild		Nominated
	Best Global Music Album	Heis	Rema	Nominated
Artists who won or were nominated for their guest contributions
Year	Category	Foreign work and artist	Nigerian act	Result
1991	Best World Music Album	Planet Drum	Babatunde Olatunji	Won
2015	Album of the Year	Beyoncé by Beyoncé^[b]^[6]	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Nominated
2017	Album of the Year	Views by Drake^[c]^[7]^[8]	Wizkid	Nominated
2017	Best Dance Recording	"Rinse & Repeat" by Riton^[d]^[9]	Kah-Lo	Nominated
2021	Best Music Video	"Brown Skin Girl" by Beyonce, Saint Jhn & Wizkid featuring Blue Ivy Carter^[10]^[11]	Wizkid	Won
2009	Best Contemporary World Music Album	Global Drum Project by Various artists^[e]	Sikiru Adepoju	Won
2022	Best Global Music Performance	"Do Yourself" by Angélique Kidjo featuring Burna Boy	Burna Boy	Nominated
2022	Album of the Year	Justice Triple Chucks Deluxe by Justin Bieber^[f]	Burna Boy	Nominated
2023	Best Rap Song	"Wait For U" by Future featuring Drake and Tems	Tems	Nominated
	Best Melodic Rap Performance	"Wait For U" by Future featuring Drake and Tems		Won
	Album of the Year	Renaissance by Beyoncé		Nominated
2024	Best Song Written for Visual Media	"Lift Me Up" by Rihanna		Nominated
2025	Best African Music Performance	"Sensational" by Chris Brown	Davido and Lojay	Nominated

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