| — |  ▶ | Burna BoyNigeria. Twice as Tall took the 2021 Grammy for Best Global Music Album | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | WizkidNigeria. Ojuelegba got remixed by Drake in 2015 and the door never shut again | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | DavidoNigeria. Raised between Atlanta and Lagos, and Fall kept charting years after release | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | AsakeNigeria. Went from a YBNL signing to headline rooms in about two years | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | RemaNigeria. Calm Down picked up a Selena Gomez remix and never left the charts | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | TemsNigeria. Sang the hook on Essence, then won a Grammy with Future and Drake | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Ayra StarrNigeria. Signed to Mavin as a teenager and out-sang the room from the start | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | OlamideNigeria. Runs YBNL, which had Asake, Fireboy and Zlatan before anyone else did | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Fireboy DMLNigeria. Peru got an Ed Sheeran remix and turned into a global single | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Omah LayNigeria. Broke out during lockdown, then got arrested onstage in Uganda | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | JoeboyNigeria. Baby was unavoidable in 2019 and he has not slowed since | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | RugerNigeria. The eyepatch, and a dancehall lean nobody else in Lagos has | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Tiwa SavageNigeria. Was doing this before the West had a name for it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Yemi AladeNigeria. Johnny is one of the first African videos to pass a hundred million views | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Mr EaziNigeria and Ghana both claim him; he called his own sound banku music | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Adekunle GoldNigeria. Started in highlife-leaning acoustic and ended up in stadium pop | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | SimiNigeria. Wrote and recorded Duduke while pregnant | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | TeniNigeria. Case and Uyo Meyo, and a writing hand behind more songs than her own | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | ZlatanNigeria. The Zanku dance went from Lagos streets to every club that plays this | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Kizz DanielNigeria. Buga was one of those songs that ran the whole of 2022 | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | PatorankingNigeria. Dancehall roots, Afrobeats reach | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | FlavourNigeria. Modern highlife's biggest name, and he still tours it live | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | PhynoNigeria. Raps in Igbo and made that a mainstream choice | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | CKayNigeria. Love Nwantiti travelled on TikTok and came back a worldwide hit | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | OxladeNigeria. Ku Lo Sa broke out of a COLORS session before it was even a single | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | LojayNigeria. The Sarz partnership gave this era some of its cleanest records | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | BNXNNigeria. Was Buju until the name change, and features on half of everything | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | VictonyNigeria. Soweto came out of the stretch he spent recovering from a car crash | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Seyi VibezNigeria. One of the loudest voices in the street-pop wave | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | ShallipopiNigeria. Came out of Benin City and named a hit after Elon Musk | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | OdumodublvckNigeria. Rap that sounds like a threat, and a following that argues for it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | LlonaNigeria. The Homeless project put him on lists he had no business being on yet | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Qing MadiNigeria. A teenager with a voice that does not sound like one | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | 2BabaNigeria. African Queen is a large part of why any of this travelled | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | D'banjNigeria. Oliver Twist reached number two in the UK in 2012 | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | P-SquareNigeria. Twin brothers who were the biggest African act of their decade | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | TimayaNigeria. Two decades in and still on other people's biggest songs | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Wande CoalNigeria. The singer other singers name first | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | TeknoNigeria. Pana, and production credits under half the hits around it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | RuntownNigeria. Mad Over You was the song of a whole year in two countries | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | SarkodieGhana. Raps in Twi and fills rooms far outside Ghana doing it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | StonebwoyGhana. The dancehall half of the argument that never ends there | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Shatta WaleGhana. The other half of that argument, loudly | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Black SherifGhana. Kwaku the Traveller was everywhere in 2022, in both countries | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | King PromiseGhana. Smooth where the rest of the chart is loud | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | AmaaraeGhana. Sad Girlz Luv Money, sung almost in a whisper | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | GyakieGhana. Forever crossed into Nigeria first and came home a hit | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | KiDiGhana. Highlife voice on Afrobeats production | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Diamond PlatnumzTanzania. Bongo Flava's biggest export, and he charts in East Africa on his own terms | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Fela KutiNigeria. Invented Afrobeat, the singular, which this whole genre is named after | — win | — match wins |