Wizkid won the first Favorite Afrobeats Artist award at the 2022 AMAs.
The category debuted at the 50th American Music Awards on November 20, 2022, at Los Angeles’s Microsoft Theater. It recognized Afrobeats performers in a ceremony that also introduced Favorite K-pop Artist, Favorite Rock Song, and Favorite Rock Album.
Wizkid won against Burna Boy, CKay, Fireboy DML, and Tems. The result was especially notable because Wizkid became the inaugural winner rather than merely the first winner from a long-running category. The award reflected the AMAs’ expanding recognition of African popular music and Afrobeats’ growing international audience.
A common mix-up is confusing this award with Collaboration of the Year, which Wizkid was not the winner of in that ceremony. Another is overlooking Fireboy DML in the nominee list: the question’s displayed wrong options omit him, but that does not change Wizkid’s correct result.