Season 30
2024 Nominees and Winners
Best Adult Contemporary Album
The Misty Cliffs — The Misty Cliffs
Stimela — Drakensberg Boys Choir
The Drive — Dr Duda
Shipwrecked — Jack Atlantic
Isipho — Smama
Best African Adult Contemporary Album
Isicathamiya For A New Millennium — Thee Legacy
Amaxesha — Bongeziwe Mabandla
Reimagined — The Soil
Sane — Brenda Mtambo
Umoya — Embracing the Human Spirit — Vusi Mahlasela
Best Afro Pop Album
Umkhonto — Zuko SA
Imizwa — Lwah Ndlunkulu
Ukhamba — Inkabi Zezwe
Zulu Romance — Blaq Diamond
Ugcobo — Nomfundo Moh
Best Alternative Album
Layers — Carla Franco
Enter the Grootness (Deluxe) — Van Pletzen
Hopeless & Romantic — CHXRL
I'm With The Singer — I'm With The Singer
Don't Forget To Howl — West Coast Wolves
Motsweding FM Best Amapiano Album
Boroko Keng — Mellow & Sleazy
Baba Yaga — De Mthuda
Dali Dali — Daliwonga
Isimo — Kabza De Small and Mthunzi
Kurhula — Kelvin Momo
Best Classical/Instrumental Album
Sci-fi, Beats & Life — UBeyond
End of the beginning — Fanie Dick
Lost Time: Bach Cello Suite No. 1 — Derek Gripper
Lofi Chill — Tony Drake
Relentless — Karen Devroop
Best Collaboration
Burning Bush — Mo¨rda and Thakzin
iPlan — Dlala Thukzin, Sykes and Zaba
Sgudi Sync — De Mthuda, Da Muziqal Chef and Eemohfeaturing Sipho Magudulela
Water — Tyla and Travis Scott
Imithandazo — Kabza De Small and Mthunzi featuring Young Stunna, DJ Maphorisa, Sizwe Alakine and Umthakathi Kush
Best Dance Album
Asante II — Mo¨rda and Thakzin
Permanent Music 3 — Dlala Thukzin
The Star Is Reborn — Zakes Bantwini
Clickbait — DBN Gogo
Reputation — Sculptured Music
Best Engineered Album
Shaka iLembe Soundtrack Album Volume 2 (Original Music from the Shaka iLembe TV Series) — Mbuso Khoza
Wake Up, It's Morning — Matthew Mole
Umoya — Embracing the Human Spirit — Vusi Mahlasela
Sane — Brenda Mtambo
Reimagined — The Soil
Best Gqom Album
Dark or Durban — Funky Qla
Gqom To Another Level Vol. 1 — Bello No Gallo
We Don't Play The Same Gqom 2 — QueDj
TronicsLand Series 2 — Mr Thela
The Young Prince Of Gqom — General C'mamane
Best Hip-Hop Album
Note To Self — FLVME
I Love It Here — Nasty C
People Forget To Be People (Deluxe) — Wordz
Heartbreak Hotel — The Big Hash
Dust — Priddy Ugly
Best Jazz Album
Enhlizweni: Song Stories From My Heartland — Steve Dyer
Siparia To Soweto — Hugh Masekela and Siparia Deltones
Rainbow Revisited — Thandi Ntuli and Carlos Nin~o
The Past Is Unpredictable, Only The Future Is Certain — Vuma Levin
In The Wake — Kujenga
Best Kwaito Album
Ghetto Skomplaz — Abobhova
Celebrating 25 Years In The Game — Sbu Malawyer
Genesis — Taylor K
Most Wanted — Sykes
Inzalo YeKwaito 2nd Half — Zinaro
Best Maskandi Album
National Anthem — Inkos'yamagcokama
Uber Driver — Sminofu
Amakhothangqoko — Mthandeni SK
Uyihlo noNyoko — Ugatsheni
Isivulwe Yonke — Ntencane
Best Pop Album
You Need Therapy — Mila Smith
Magic — Will Linley
23:23 — Paxton
Wake Up, It's Morning — Matthew Mole
Tyla — Tyla
Best Produced Album
I Love It Here — Nasty C
No Other Love — David Watkyns
Shaka iLembe Soundtrack Album Volume 2 (Original Music from the Shaka iLembe TV Series) — Mbuso Khoza
Wake Up, It's Morning — Matthew Mole
Ifa Lomkhono — Mbuso Khoza
Best Produced Music Video
Dali by Kamo Mphela — Kudzi
Amakhehla by Sjava — Tido
4am by Loatinover Pounds — BSV
018 by Cassper Nyovest — Jabu
Call Me by Filah Lah Lah — Reabetswe Fila Ranamane
Best R&B/Soul Album
A Tale of a Fallen Queen — Ayanda Jiya
Love Letters — KashCPT
Hold Me When It's Cold: The Cuddle Pack — Una Rams
Testament — Lordkez
The Other Side (Deluxe EP) — Mia
Best Reggae Album
Musinion — Undefynd
Love & Unity — Ras Vuyo
Proof of Life — Dimahr
Love Expressions — Two Point Ow
Give Praises — Skeleton Blazer
Best Rock Album
Dans Deur Die Donker — Francois van Coke
Deurbraak — Millennium
Hard Mode — Wonderboom
Born & Raised — Kenny Hughes
All-Killer-Filler — Evert Snyman
Best Traditional Faith Music Album
Sibonga Umusa (Live) — Sneziey
Indumiso yaseStezi — Thinah Zungu
Worship House 20 — Worship House
uJehova — University of Pretoria
Mororiseng — Omega Khunou
Best Traditional Music Album
Bhacasoul Experience EP — Joliza
Mbofholowo — Makhadzi
I'm Happy — Shabalala Rhythm
Shaka iLembe Soundtrack Album Volume 2 (Original Music from the Shaka iLembe TV Series) — Shaka Ilembe
Hamba Naye — Soul Brothers
Beste Kontempore^re Musiek Album
Rondry, Fliek En Die Buitelewe — Valiant Swart
Allegaarkie vir 'n Askeet — Neil Sandilands
Die Vallei — Joshua Na Die Ree¨n
Estetika — Elandre´
Alles — Jacob Swann
Beste Pop Album
Almal Gly — Die Piesangskille
Heelal — Ryno Velvet
Braaf — Jan Jan Jan
Omdat Jy Mag — Brendan Peyper
My Mense — Ila´n van Staden
Remix of the Year
Sisahleleleni (Ntokzin remix) — Bongeziwe Mabandla & Ntokzin
Weekend Special (Jnr SA remix) — Jnr SA
Yes God Remix (MO¨RDA, Thakzin, Mhaw Keys) — Oscar Mbo
Dubula — Harrycane feat Eemoh, Master KG and DJ Latinny
Goodbye remixed by Soa Mattrix — Azana and Soa Mattrix
Rest of Africa Award
Asake: Work of Art — Asake
Don't Get Used To This — Wurld
Lion of Sudah — Bensoul
Son Of A Tribe (Royalty Edition) — Edgar Muzah
Alusa Why Are You Topless? — Bien
Best African Indigenous Faith Music Album
Alikho Elinye Ithemba — JTG Gospel Choir
Ke Nako ya Modimo — Lejwe la Motheo
Masango — Di Bruin Gospel Projects
Vuya Matimba — Discuss Nkuna
Soothe My Soul: Songs from our South African Church — Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Best Contemporary Faith Music Album
The Gift Vol. 1 — Brenden Praise
Izililo — We Will Worship
Unusual — Xolly Mncwango
We Bow Down — 3C Live
Come To Jesus (Live In Bryanston, 2022) — The Fellowship With Pastor Namba
Male Artist of the Year
Priddy Ugly — Dust
Kelvin Momo — Kurhula
Ugatsheni — Uyihlo noNyoko
Daliwonga — Dali Dali
De Mthuda — Baba Yaga
Female Artist of the Year
Tyla — Tyla
Brenda Mtambo — Sane
Lwah Ndlunkulu — Imizwa
Lordkez — Testament
Xolly Mncwango — Unusual
Duo/Group of the Year
Mellow & Sleazy — Boroko Keng
FokofPolisieKar — Dans Deur Die Donker
Ladysmith Black Mambazo — Soothe My Soul: Songs from our South African Church
Die Piesangskille and Johan Balt — Almal Gly
Kabza De Small and Mthunzi — Isimo
Newcomer of the Year
Sykes — Most Wanted
Lwah Ndlunkulu — Imizwa
Tyla — Tyla
Die Piesangskille and Johan Balt — Almal Gly
Joliza — Bhacasoul Experience EP
SAMPRA Album of the Year
Isimo — Kabza De Small and Mthunzi
Tyla — Tyla
Dali Dali — Daliwonga
Soothe My Soul: Songs from our South African Church — Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Unusual — Xolly Mncwango