The global award for Afrobeats music award, the Headies is set to hold its seventeenth edition on Saturday, April 5, 2025 in the city of Lagos.

This award that rewards musicians across genres of music in Nigeria should have held last year according to its organizer and founder, the music business mogul, Ayo Animashaun, will now hold in the early part of the year and the next edition hold in December 2025.

The nominations list for the 17th edition will be released next Wednesday, February 12. Ayo Animashaun who also Smooth Productions, stated that festivities will begin on March 29, with The Headies Stakeholders Brunch and the Nominees’ Party, featuring a lineup of events that will culminate in a week-long celebration of the industry’s growth and artistic ingenuity.

The build up to this award will have the organizer host The Headies Creative Summit, a game-changing event that is set to revolutionize the music industry. It holds April 3rd and 4th, 2025 and brings industry leaders, innovators and creative for the two-day conference.

“In partnership with the NIFS, the summit is designed to drive collaboration between music, art, fashion and technology. It will foster high level business conversations and deal-making and will showcase Nigeria’s global dominance in Afrobeats,” the statement reads partly on the headies’ social media account.

Recall that the last two editions of the Headies formerly known as Hip Hop Awards which got Rema and Asake win Big at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center Atlanta, Georgia, United States the first time the awards was held abroad.

Animashuan who owns the cable music television, Hip TV made the announcement stating that The Headies is coming back bigger and stronger as the most highly-anticipated music award in Nigeria and by extension, Africa. Since 2006, The Headies has rewarded excellence in music and it has supported growth in the Nigerian music industry.