{"id":907040,"date":"2026-05-19T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/wizkid-burna-boy-rema-lead-2026-amas-best-afrobeats-artist-nominees\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:18:09","slug":"wizkid-burna-boy-rema-lead-2026-amas-best-afrobeats-artist-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/wizkid-burna-boy-rema-lead-2026-amas-best-afrobeats-artist-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizkid, Burna Boy, Rema lead 2026 AMAs \u2018Best Afrobeats Artist\u2019 nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music Afrobeats continues its global dominance as the American Music Awards (AMAs) have announced their nominees for the \u201cBest Afrobeats Artist\u201d category, spotlighting some of the genre\u2019s biggest names and rising international stars. Leading the 2026 nominations are Nigerian heavyweights Wizkid, Burna Boy, and Rema, three artists widely credited with pushing Afrobeats from a regional sound [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tribuneonlineng.com\/wizkid-burna-boy-rema-lead-2026-amas-best-afrobeats-artist-nominees\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Afrobeats continues its global dominance as the American Music Awards (AMAs) have announced their nominees for the \u201cBest Afrobeats Artist\u201d category, spotlighting some of the genre\u2019s biggest names and rising international stars. Leading the 2026 nominations are Nigerian heavyweights Wizkid, Burna Boy, and Rema, three artists widely credited with pushing Afrobeats from a regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":907041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[131522],"class_list":{"0":"post-907040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-news","8":"tag-podcast-music"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}