Tyla Wins Grammy For Best African Music Performance

The 68th Annual Grammy Awards highlighted the steady and substantive growth of African music’s global footprint. The ceremony’s Best African Music Performance category featuring nominated works from Tyla (“Push 2 Start”), Burna Boy (“Love”), Davido featuring Omah Lay (“With You”), Eddy Kenzo & Mehran Matin (“Hope & Love”), and Ayra Starr featuring Wizkid (“Gimme Dat”).

With celebrated artists from Nigeria, Uganda, and South Africa in contention, the category demonstrated the widespread reach of genres like Afrobeats and amapiano. Guiding the ceremony, South African host Trevor Noah provided a familiar and affirming presence, symbolizing the natural place African talent now holds within these international celebrations of music.

Achieving a notable distinction, South African singer-songwriter Tyla won the Grammy Award for Best African Music Performance for her track “Push 2 Start.” The victory earns her a second trophy in the category’s brief history, following her debut win in 2024.

This accomplishment, set against a field of highly respected peers, underscores her unique position as an artist who successfully translates specific South African influences into music with broad, international resonance. Her continued recognition serves as an encouraging indicator for the longevity of African artists’ impact on the world stage.

The consistent platform provided by the Grammys for these sounds signifies an important phase of institutional validation within the industry. It affirms that the listener engagement and cross-cultural collaboration driving the popularity of African music are being met with formal acknowledgment.

Here is the definitive breakdown of winners and nominees across the ceremony’s primary categories.

Best African Music Performance

• WINNER: Tyla — “Push 2 Start”
• Burna Boy — “Love”
• Davido featuring Omah Lay — “With You”
• Eddy Kenzo & Mehran Matin — “Hope & Love”
• Ayra Starr featuring Wizkid — “Gimme Dat”

Song of the Year

• WINNER: Billie Eilish — “Wildflower”
• Lady Gaga — “Abracadabra”
• Doechii — “Anxiety”
• Rosé & Bruno Mars — “APT”
• Bad Bunny — “DtMF”
• Hunter/x — “Golden”
• Kendrick Lamar feat SZA — “Luther”
• Sabrina Carpenter — “Manchild”

Record of the Year

• WINNER: Kendrick Lamar feat SZA — “Luther”
• Bad Bunny — “DtMF”
• Sabrina Carpenter — “Manchild”
• Doechii — “Anxiety”
• Billie Eilish — “Wildflower”
• Lady Gaga — “Abracadabra”
• Chappell Roan — “The Subway”
• Rosé & Bruno Mars — “APT”

Album of the Year

• WINNER: Bad Bunny — Debí Tirar Más Fotos
• Justin Bieber — Swag
• Sabrina Carpenter — Man’s Best Friend
• Clipse — Let God Sort Em Out
• Lady Gaga — Mayhem
• Kendrick Lamar — GNX
• Leon Thomas — Mutt
• Tyler, the Creator — Chromakopia

Best New Artist

• WINNER: Olivia Dean
• Katseye
• The Marias
• Addison Rae
• Sombr
• Leon Thomas
• Alex Warren
• Lola Young

Best Pop Vocal Album

• WINNER: Lady Gaga — Mayhem
• Justin Bieber — Swag
• Sabrina Carpenter — Man’s Best Friend
• Miley Cyrus — Something Beautiful
• Teddy Swims — I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy Pt 2

Best Pop Solo Performance

• WINNER: Lola Young — “Messy”
• Justin Bieber — “Daisies”
• Sabrina Carpenter — “Manchild”
• Lady Gaga — “Disease”
• Chappell Roan — “The Subway”

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

• WINNER: Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande — “Defying Gravity”
• Huntr/x — “Golden”
• Katseye — “Gabriela”
• Rosé & Bruno Mars — “APT”
• SZA With Kendrick Lamar — “30 For 30”

Best Dance/Electronic Recording

• WINNER: Tame Impala — “End Of Summer”
• Disclosure & Anderson .Paak — “No Cap”
• Fred again.., Skepta, & PlaqueBoyMax — “Victory Lap”
• Kaytranada — “Space Invader”
• Skrillex — “Voltage”

Best Dance/Electronic Album

• WINNER: FKA Twigs — Eusexua
• Fred again.. — Ten Days
• PinkPantheress — Fancy That
• Rüfüs Du Sol — Inhale / Exhale
• Skrillex — F** U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! <3*

Best Dance/Pop Recording

• WINNER: Lady Gaga — “Abracadabra”
• Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco — “Bluest Flame”
• Zara Larsson — “Midnight Sun”
• Tate McRae — “Just Keep Watching”
• PinkPantheress — “Illegal”

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

• WINNER: Laufey — A Matter Of Time
• Laila Biali — Wintersongs
• Jennifer Hudson — The Gift Of Love
• Elton John & Brandi Carlile — Who Believes In Angels?
• Lady Gaga — Harlequin
• Barbra Streisand — The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume 2

Best Latin Pop Album

• WINNER: Natalia Lafourcade — Cancionera
• Rauw Alejandro — Cosa Nuestra
• Andrés Cepeda — Bogotá (Deluxe)
• Karol G — Tropicoqueta
• Alejandro Sanz — ¿Y ahora qué?

Best Música Urbana Album

• WINNER: Bad Bunny — DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
• J Balvin — Mixteip
• Feid — Ferxxo Vol X: Sagrado
• Nicki Nicole — Naiki
• Trueno — Eub Deluxe
• Yandel — Sinfónico (En Vivo)

Best Rock Performance

• WINNER: Yungblud ft Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman, II — “Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back To The Beginning”
• Amyl and The Sniffers — “U Should Not Be Doing That”
• Linkin Park — “The Emptiness Machine”
• Turnstile — “Never Enough”
• Hayley Williams — “Mirtazapine”

Best Rock Song

• WINNER: Nine Inch Nails — “As Alive As You Need Me To Be”
• Sleep Token — “Caramel”
• Hayley Williams — “Glum”
• Turnstile — “Never Enough”
• Yungblud — “Zombie”

Best Rock Album

• WINNER: Turnstile — Never Enough
• Deftones — Private Music
• Haim — I Quit
• Linkin Park — From Zero
• Yungblud — Idols

Best Alternative Music Album

• WINNER: The Cure — Songs Of A Lost World
• Bon Iver — Sable, Fable
• Tyler, The Creator — Don’t Tap the Glass
• Wet Leg — Moisturizer
• Hayley Williams — Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

Best Alternative Music Performance

• WINNER: The Cure — “Alone”
• Bon Iver — “Everything Is Peaceful Love”
• Turnstile — “Seein’ Stars”
• Wet Leg — “Mangetout”
• Hayley Williams — “Parachute”

Best Metal Performance

• WINNER: Turnstile — “Birds”
• Dream Theater — “Night Terror”
• Ghost — “Lachryma”
• Sleep Token — “Emergence”
• Spiritbox — “Soft Spine”

Best Rap Performance

• WINNER: Clipse, Pusha T & Malice feat Kendrick Lamar & Pharrell Williams — “Chains & Whips”
• Cardi B — “Outside”
• Doechii — “Anxiety”
• Kendrick Lamar feat Lefty Gunplay — “TV Off”
• Tyler, The Creator feat Teezo Touchdown — “Darling, I”

Best Melodic Rap Performance

• WINNER: Kendrick Lamar with SZA — “Luther”
• Fridayy feat Meek Mill — “Proud Of Me”
• JID feat Ty Dolla $ign & 6Lack — “Wholeheartedly”
• Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon feat Rapsody — “WeMaj”
• Partynextdoor & Drake — “Somebody Loves Me”

Best Rap Song

• WINNER: Kendrick Lamar feat Lefty Gunplay — “TV Off”
• Doechii — “Anxiety”
• Clipse, Pusha T & Malice feat John Legend & Voices of Fire — “The Birds Don’t Sing”
• Tyler, The Creator feat GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil Wayne — “Sticky”
• GloRilla — “TGIF”

Best Rap Album

• WINNER: Kendrick Lamar — GNX
• Clipse, Pusha T & Malice — Let God Sort Em Out
• GloRilla — Glorious
• JID — God Does Like Ugly
• Tyler, The Creator — Chromakopia

Best Country Solo Performance

• WINNER: Chris Stapleton — “Bad As I Used To Be”
• Tyler Childers — “Nose On The Grindstone”
• Shaboozey — “Good News”
• Zach Top — “I Never Lie”
• Lainey Wilson — “Somewhere Over Laredo”

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

• WINNER: Shaboozey & Jelly Roll — “Amen”
• Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton — “A Song To Sing”
• Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson — “Trailblazer”
• Margo Price & Tyler Childers — “Love Me Like You Used To Do”
• George Strait & Chris Stapleton — “Honky Tonk Hall Of Fame”

Best Country Song

• WINNER: Tyler Childers — “Bitin’ List”
• Shaboozey — “Good News”
• Zach Top — “I Never Lie”
• Lainey Wilson — “Somewhere Over Laredo”
• Chris Stapleton — “A Song To Sing”

Best Contemporary Country Album

• WINNER: Jelly Roll — Beautifully Broken
• Kelsea Ballerini — Patterns
• Tyler Childers — Snipe Hunter
• Eric Church — Evangeline vs The Machine
• Miranda Lambert — Postcards From Texas

Best R&B Performance

• WINNER: Kehlani — “Folded”
• Justin Bieber — “Yukon”
• Chris Brown feat Bryson Tiller — “It Depends”
• Leon Thomas — “Mutt (Live From NPR’s Tiny Desk)”
• Summer Walker — “Heart Of A Woman”

Best R&B Song

• WINNER: Kehlani — “Folded”
• Summer Walker — “Heart Of A Woman”
• Chris Brown feat Bryson Tiller — “It Depends”
• Durand Bernarr — “Overqualified”
• Leon Thomas — “Yes It Is”

Best R&B Album

• WINNER: Leon Thomas — Mutt
• Giveon — Beloved
• Coco Jones — Why Not More?
• Ledisi — The Crown
• Teyana Taylor — Escape Room

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

• WINNER: Cirkut (Lady Gaga, Rosé, Jade)
• Dan Auerbach
• Dijon
• Blake Mills
• Sounwave

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

• WINNER: Amy Allen (Rosé, Jennie, Sabrina Carpenter)
• Edgar Barrera
• Jessie Jo Dillon
• Tobias Jesso Jr
• Laura Veltz

Best Comedy Album

• WINNER: Nate Bargatze — Your Friend, Nate Bargatze
• Bill Burr — Drop Dead Years
• Sarah Silverman — PostMortem
• Ali Wong — Single Lady
• Jamie Foxx — What Had Happened Was

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

• WINNER: Sinners — Various artists
• A Complete Unknown — Timothée Chalamet
• F1 The Album — Various artists
• K-Pop Demon Hunters — Various artists
• Wicked — Various artists

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

• WINNER: Ludwig Göransson — Sinners
• John Powell — How To Train Your Dragon
• Theodore Shapiro — Severance: Season 2
• John Powell & Stephen Schwartz — Wicked
• Kris Bowers — The Wild Robot

Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media

• WINNER: Austin Wintory — Sword of the Sea
• Pinar Toprak — Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Secrets of the Spires
• Wilbert Roget II — Helldivers 2
• Gordy Haab — Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Cody Matthew Johnson & Wilbert Roget II — Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate’s Fortune

Best Song Written for Visual Media

• WINNER: Huntr/x — “Golden” (From K-Pop Demon Hunters)
• Nine Inch Nails — “As Alive As You Need Me To Be” (From Tron: Ares)
• Miles Caton — “I Lied To You” (From Sinners)
• Elton John & Brandi Carlile — “Never Too Late” (From Elton John: Never Too Late)
• Jayme Lawson — “Pale Pale Moon” (From Sinners)
• Rod Wave — “Sinners” (From Sinners)

Best Audiobook, Narration, and Storytelling Recording

• WINNER: Dalai Lama — Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama
• Kathy Garver — Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story
• Trevor Noah — Into The Uncut Grass
• Ketanji Brown Jackson — Lovely One: A Memoir
• Fab Morvan — You Know It’s True: The Real Story Of Milli Vanilli

Best Music Video

• WINNER: Doechii — “Anxiety”
• Sade — “Young Lion”
• Sabrina Carpenter — “Manchild”
• Clipse — “So Be It”
• OK Go — “Love”

Best Music Film

• WINNER: John Williams — Music by John Williams
• Devo — Devo
• Raye — Live at the Albert Hall
• Diane Warren — Relentless
• Pharrell Williams — Piece By Piece

Best Jazz Vocal Album

• WINNER: Samara Joy — Portrait
• Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap — Elemental
• Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell — We Insist 2025!
• Michael Mayo — Fly
• Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold & Rachel Eckroth — Live at Vic’s Las Vegas

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

• WINNER: Sullivan Fortner feat Peter Washington & Marcus Gilmore — Southern Nights
• Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade — Trilogy 3 (Live)
• Branford Marsalis Quartet — Belonging
• John Patitucci feat Chris Potter & Brian Blade — Spirit Fall
• Yellowjackets — Fasten Up

Best Alternative Jazz Album

• WINNER: Nate Smith — Live-Action
• Ambrose Akinmusire — Honey from a Winter Stone
• Robert Glasper — Keys To The City Volume One
• Brad Mehldau — Ride Into The Sun
• Immanuel Wilkins — Blues Blood

Best Jazz Performance

• WINNER: Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade — “Windows (Live)”
• Lakecia Benjamin feat Immanuel Wilkins & Mark Whitfield — “Noble Rise”
• Samara Joy — “Peace Of Mind/Dreams Come True”
• Michael Mayo — “Four”
• Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold & Rachel Eckroth — “All Stars Lead To You (Live)”

Best Musical Theatre Album

• WINNER: Buena Vista Social Club
• Death Becomes Her
• Gypsy
• Just In Time
• Maybe Happy Ending

Best Opera Recording

• WINNER: Heggie: Intelligence — Kwamé Ryan, conductor (Houston Grand Opera; Gene Scheer)
• Huang Ruo: An American Soldier — Carolyn Kuan, conductor (American Composers Orchestra; David Henry Hwang)
• Kouyoumdjian: Adoration — Alan Pierson, conductor (Silvana Quartet; The Choir Of Trinity Wall Street)
• O’Halloran: Trade & Mary Motorhead — Elaine Kelly (Irish National Opera Orchestra; Mark O’Halloran)
• Tesori: Grounded — Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus; George Brant)

Best Orchestral Performance

• WINNER: Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie — Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
• Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L’Ouverture; Ballade Op. 4; Suites From ’24 Negro Melodies’ — Michael Repper, conductor (National Philharmonic)
• Ravel: Boléro — Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Of Venezuela)
• Still & Bonds — Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)
• Stravinsky: Symphony In Three Movements — Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)