The second edition of the reggae and dancehall music awards show, Bass Awards, has been launched in Accra.

Nominations across various categories have been snapped up by some of Ghana’s fairly contemporary reggae, and dancehall acts, as well as songs by artistes who necessarily don’t experiment with the genre wholly.

See nominations list below…

• DANCEHALL ARTISTE(S) OF THE YEAR

1) Stonebwoy – Give it to them

2) Shatta Wale – Enter the Net

3) Jupitar – Freaky girl

• REGGAE ARTISTE(S) OF THE YEAR

1) Ras Kuuku – Father

2) Blakk Rasta – Iyawata

3) Iwan – Chant a song

• BEST ALTERNATIVE REGGAE/DANCEHALL SONG (GOSPEL)

1) Akesse Brempong – Crazy love

2) Nii Soul – Count it all joy

3) Jay Shady – Bestest friend

4) Jael Wiafe – Don’t give up the fight

• ARTISTE OF THE YEAR (KWAME NKRUMAH AWARD)

1) Shatta Wale

2) Stonebwoy

3) Jupitar

4) Blakk Rasta

5) Ras Kuuku

• DANCEHALL SONG OF THE YEAR

1) Episode – Turn up

2) Fuse ODG – Badder than bad

3) Shatta Wale- Enter the net

4) Stonebwoy – Give it to them

5) Jupitar – Freaky girl

• REGGAE SONG OF THE YEAR

1) Buk bak – Mama cry no more

2) Blakk Rasta – Iyawata

3) Iwan – Chant a song

4) Jah Wadada – Loving you

5) Konkarah – Rise

6) Ras Kuuku – Father

7) Tinny – Mi love you

8) Tsidifari – Ghana

9) Gyadu-Blay Ambolley – It doesn’t Matter

• BEST COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR (REGGAE)

1) Blakk Rasta/Lami – Iyawata

2) Kiki Jail/Shatta Rako – Me and You

3) Papa Jingo/Jeron Tempo – Yen ye Baako

4) Lingua Kat/Jah Amber – Makooma

5) Ras Kuuku/Norris man – Give thanks

• BEST COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR (DANCEHALL)

1) D2/Shatta Wale – Fever

2) Edem/Stonebwoy – Go harder

3) Episode/Edem – Circumstance

4) Method Ranking/Stonebwoy – Wind up

5) Sarkodie/Banky W – Pon di tin

6) Shatta Wale/D Black – Ina the Party

7) Trade Mark /Natural Face – Mi Girl Nie

8) Wiyaala/Jupitar – Rock my body

• RECORD OF THE YEAR (YAA ASANTEWAA AWARD)

1) Blakk Rasta – Eager to see Mandela

2) Papa Jingo – Yen ye baako

3) Episode – Mandela

4) Na U – Kudos Ghana.

5) Tsidifari – Ghana

• PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

1) Dakay

2) Genius selection

3) Infectious

• MUSIC VIDEO F THE YEAR (REGGAE)

1) Na U – Believe in me

2) Konkarah – Rise

3) Ras Kuuku – Father

4) Jon Germain – Still here

5) Blakk Rasta- Iyawata

• MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR (DANCEHALL)

1) Jupitar – Money Box

2) Shatta Wale – Like my thing

3) Sarkodie/Banky W – Pon di tin

4) Wiyaala/Jupitar – Rock my body

5) Mz Vee – Borkor Borkor

• BEST MALE VOCAL ARTISTE OF THE YEAR

1) Buk Bak – Mama cry more

2) Jah ambar – Eye Wunkuaa

3) Luther – Judge not

4) Nature – Chameleon love

5) Tsidifari– Ghana

• BEST FEMALE VOCAL ARTISTE OF THE YEAR

1) Mz Vee – Bokor Bokor

2) Wiyaala – Rock my body

• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

1) Samson Quaye (Poncho)

2) Consular Hayes

3) Simple Man Kante

• DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR

1) Jah Wyz – My life

2) A K songtress – The Empress

3) Buju Stingo – Badder than them

• RIDDIM OF THE YEAR

1) Smirnoff and Guinness riddim

2) Kulcha riddim

• BEST PERFORMER OF THE YEAR

1) Shatta Wale

2) Stonebwoy

3) Ras Kuuku

4) Jupitar

• ALBUM OF THE YEAR (REGGAE/DANCEHALL)

1) Blakk Rasta – Ancestral Moon Splash

• BEST SONG WRITER OF THE YEAR

1) Buk Bak – Mama Cry no more

2) Konkarah – Rise

3) Ras Kuuku – Father

4) Tsidifari – Ghana

5) Ras Bomber – Danqua Circle

• BEST AFRICAN ACT OF THE YEAR

1) Wyre

2) Jesse Jagz

3) Alpha Blondy