{"id":75140,"date":"2025-09-08T08:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75140"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:15:32","slug":"tyla-wins-best-afrobeats-at-2025-mtv-vmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/08\/tyla-wins-best-afrobeats-at-2025-mtv-vmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyla Wins Best Afrobeats at 2025 MTV VMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>South African music star Tyla has clinched the Best Afrobeats award at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards for her chart-topping single \u201cPUSH 2 START.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement on Monday marked a major milestone in the global rise of African music, with Tyla celebrating the victory alongside her fans on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Her win underscores the growing recognition of African artists on the world stage and reaffirms Afrobeats as one of the most influential sounds in contemporary music.<\/p>\n<p>Tyla\u2019s triumph comes in a year where several African acts earned nominations across categories, including Nigerian stars Asake, Burna Boy, Rema, Tems, and Ayra Starr.<\/p>\n<p>Industry watchers say the strong African presence at the VMAs reflects the continent\u2019s expanding influence and cements its role as a powerhouse shaping global pop culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba &nbsp; South African music star Tyla has clinched the Best Afrobeats award at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards for her chart-topping single \u201cPUSH 2 START.\u201d The announcement on Monday marked a major milestone in the global rise of African music, with Tyla celebrating the victory alongside her fans on social media. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75142,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75140\/revisions\/75142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}