{"id":65010,"date":"2023-05-08T16:42:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T16:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/08\/vgma-board-member-explains-why-king-promise-deserves-album-of-the-year-award\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T16:42:28","slug":"vgma-board-member-explains-why-king-promise-deserves-album-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/08\/vgma-board-member-explains-why-king-promise-deserves-album-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"VGMA Board member explains why King Promise deserves Album of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/C1FBC146-8989-4BCA-84A0-C10D00CDC1CA-1024x635.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Nii Ayite Hammond, a member of the Board of the Vodafone Ghana  Awards has responded to claims that Black Sherif deserved the Album of the Year award in the 24th edition of the scheme more than King Promise who won with his \u20185 Star\u2019 album.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Kwame Dadzie on <strong>Joy FM\u2019s Twitter Spaces<\/strong>, Hammond acknowledged that Black Sherif had a good album (The Villain I Never Was) but King Promise\u2019s \u20185 Star\u2019 album also passed the litmus test.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is true that \u2018The Villain I Never Was\u2019 ticks all the boxes, the same way King Promise\u2019s album also ticks all the boxes. You realise that when you read the category definition, it doesn\u2019t say hit song and quality of recording. It says \u2018and\/or\u2019. So when you are assessing them, you assess both and you make a choice out of that assessment,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The VGMA Board member also explained why the category definition for the Album of the Year changed from an album just having the highest number of hit songs to one possessing technical qualities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a point in time in the music life of the country, we were doing more singles so the albums were kind of suffering. And so people who were coming out with albums and we realized that the definition that we had in the past which was three or more hit songs was becoming a challenge. So in the wisdom of the Board we needed to change that definition,\u201d he further noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this criteria posed a challenge because they noticed that there were albums which by critical acclaim qualified for nomination but were not popular.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also noticed that there were quality productions which we were overlooking just because we were looking at the popularity aspect so we needed to bring that one in such that people who also take their time to produce quality albums get featured,\u201d he said on Joy Entertainment Unpacked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Album of the Year of the Vodafone Ghana  \u201cis adjudged by the Academy and Board as the most outstanding compilation (either by the number of hit songs and or the quality of production) of an Album that was released during the year under review. It must have generated excitement during the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 24th Vodafone Ghana  Awards which was held at the Grand Arena on May 6, 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nii Ayite Hammond, a member of the Board of the Vodafone Ghana Awards has responded to claims that Black Sherif deserved the Album of the Year award in the 24th edition of the scheme more than King Promise who won with his \u20185 Star\u2019 album.\u00a0 Speaking to Kwame Dadzie on Joy FM\u2019s Twitter Spaces, Hammond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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