South African pop famous person Tyla made historical past on the just-concluded 2025 American Music Awards (AMAs) by profitable the Favorite Afrobeats Artist class, changing into the primary girl to obtain the award.
The award present, which celebrates excellent achievements throughout world music genres, introduced Tyla because the winner of the aggressive Afrobeats class, the place she edged out Nigerian heavyweights Wizkid, Rema, Tems, and Asake.
The 2025 version of the AMAs was held on twenty sixth Might on the luxurious Fontainebleau resort in Las Vegas, coinciding with the U.S. Memorial Day celebration.
Tyla was additionally nominated within the Favorite Feminine R&B Artist class, the place she went up towards Kehlani, Summer season Walker, Muni Lengthy, and eventual winner SZA.
The AMAs are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a three way partnership between Eldridge Industries and Billboard dad or mum firm Penske Media. The present recognises high musical skills throughout Pop, Rap, R&B, Afrobeats, Nation, Latin, and Ok-Pop.
The Favorite Afrobeats Artist class was launched by the AMAs in 2022, with Wizkid making historical past as its first winner.
For this 12 months’s awards, nominations had been primarily based on key fan interactions, as mirrored on the Billboard charts – together with streaming, album and tune gross sales, radio airplay and tour grosses. These measurements coated the info monitoring eligibility interval from twenty second March 2024 by way of twentieth March 2025. The winners throughout numerous classes had been voted for fully by followers.
Take a look at the entire checklist of winners right here.