From METRO FM - The 2008 METRO FM Music Awards will be held on 29 November 2008, Tshwane, South Africa. But it’ll all depend on you, the listeners and fans. Don’t let your favourite stars miss out. The panel has chosen nominees for this year’s ultra glam event and they’ll only pick up an award or two if you give them your voting power!

Song of the year
Rythmic Elements – 2 by 2
DJ Vetkoek vs Mahoota – Qolo
Jub Jub – Ndikhokhele
Big Nuz – Ubala
Jaziel Brothers – Ngeke Ngiphinde

The much-anticipated CD “Sika Ye” from Ghana’s Golden voice “Felix Owusu aka Qkesi is finally going to be released these holidays. The release date for the CD is November 23rd 2008; Sputnic Erawoc CEO of SMG (Sputnic Music Group) Atlanta was at hand to handle questions from the press for his newly signed Artist.

Felix, who has been quiet from the music scene for a while decided to take some time out to spend and enjoy life with his wife and 3 boys. Felix leaves in Atlanta and still writes some of the best songs from an African Artist; he has been working on this CD for roughly 2 years with some of Ghana’s best musicians.

MTV has unveiled the nominees for the Listener’s Choice Award at the MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain (MAMAs). The awards celebrate the tracks and artists who triumphed on the radio airwaves in 2007/8.
You can view the nominees for other categories in the MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) are this Museke.com link.

The nominees for the Listener’s Choice awards, chosen exclusively by radio listeners across Africa are:

- Jax Panik (South Africa) - 'Cigarettes and Cinnamon'
- D’Banj (Nigeria) - 'Why Me'
- Nakaaya (Tanzania) - 'Mr. Politician'

We are enjoying this awards season very much. We've gone through Ghana, South Africa, many Nigerian ones, Sierra Leone and we are awaiting the winners in Uganda and Namibia. You can click the countries to see the winners from each country. We can't leave out Kenya and when you talk about the land of genge, benga, kapuka and boomba music, the Kisima Music Awards is the biggest show. It rewards mostly Kenyan musicians as well as those from Uganda and Tanzania. East Africa unite! The show would be held on 29th November.

According to the Kisima website, The General public within East Africa votes through the Mobile phone by SMS to a short code number and Internet for the regions without access to the short code. SMS Platform Short Code for public vote to cover the East Africa region 4142 - KENYA 7197 - UGANDA 15550 - TANZANIA To vote for your preferred Nominee, text the word Kisima –followed by the Nominee Category Code i.e 36a Send a text ‘kisima 36a’ to the short code within your region. Any other voter outside the East African region will only be allowed to vote online through our website.. There is a "How to vote" link on the Kisima website

Here are the nominees arranged by name of musician, song/track, and sms code

UPDATED - Click for PAM Awards Winners 2008

Here are the nominees for the Pearl of Africa Music Awards, the biggest awards ceremony in Uganda rewarding musicians.

1. Best Hip-hop Single
* Nani Wuyo (Rocky Giant)
* Salooni (GNL ft Navio)
* Siri Muyaye (Ragga Dee)
* Soda Jinjale (GNL ft Unik)

2. Best Hip-hop Artiste/Group
* GNL
* Lethal
* Navio
* Rocky Giant

3. Best Afro Beat Single
* Anfuukula (Grace Nakimera)
* Diana (Juliana Kanyomozi)
* Password (Toolman)
* Zuena (Mozey Radio and Weasle)

Arguably the biggest Nigerian musician this year, 9ice, has won his first major international award. He was named the recipient of the award for the Best African Act category at the 13th annual Music Of Black Origin (MOBO) awards, held at Wembley Arena, London, on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. Abolore Adigun Akande emerged victorious with almost half of the votes cast over Asa, P-Square, D'Banj, Jozi, Wahu, HHP (Jabba), Jozi, JuaCali, and Faze.

9ice has had a remarkable year on the back of the ever popular Gongo Aso hit, as well as tracks like Street Credibility featuring Tuface Idibia, Party Rider, Photocopy and Wedding Day. He also got married to Oluwaseun Toni Payne-Akande.

The full list of award winners at the British Music of Black Origin (MOBO) awards are

The winners for this year's Channel O Music Video Awards (MVA) have been named. The awards ceremony came off Thursday night (Oct 9) at the Carnival City, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The MC's were Channel O's own Nonhle Thema and Krazy Boy (Kabelo 'KB' Ngakane. See an interview we had with Nonhle here and the full list of nominees.

Nigerian artistes did very well, the best Kwaito award went to Namibia (again) and best dance as well. The best female award went to one of the ladies of Bang Entertainment in Mozambique as well. One new Zimbabwean artiste felt greedy and took two awards, yay for Zimdancehall! P-Square won the best video but which of their awesome videos from the Game Over was chosen?
Find out below

The award winners are

Now is the time for NUMBER ONE. Grafton artist M-Trill is releasing his debut album. For just over three years the stylish singer has been planning, working the underground real hard, always waiting for the moment when he could unleash his repertoire of grooves. Now is that moment.

After honing his act by working with numerous acts like Specimen A, African Rock star (Uchie), Ebiere, De Indispensables, Korkormikor ,Truschool, Afy Douglas,Pyrelli from the U.K and Making international bills and getting an African Nomination, M-Trill is no longer the apprentice. He is becoming the master. And an album that was previously scheduled to be released under the title THE TRANSITION can now ONLY be released with the new title NUMBER ONE. Because that is where the man is at.

The First Annual SLMTV Awards were held on Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 8pm at the Hampton Conference Hall in Capitol Heights, Maryland. The event honored those that had excelled in the entertainment industry, as well as those individuals and companies that are promoting and raising awareness of Sierra Leone culture through business and community service.

We have the winners and more about the musicians will be on Museke.com in due time. Learn who the movers and shakers in Sa Leone entertainment are. You've already been introduced to Emmerson, aka Sugar medicine.

Best Male Music Video
Emmerson - Tutu Party
Y.O.K - Dem Wan Ya
Winner - Daddy Saj - Che Che
Jungle Leaders - Me N You
Jimmy B. - Beautiful