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Billboard ranks each show astatine the 2025 Caribbean Music Awards, from Elephant Man and Lady Lava to Lila Iké and Full Blown.
9/12/2025
Elephant Man Nitika Small
From reggae legends similar Sizzla and Buju Banton to innovative breakout stars similar Lady Lava and dancehall upstarts specified arsenic Armanii, the 3rd yearly Caribbean Music Awards surely weren’t lacking successful prima powerfulness and memorable performances. The Aug. 28 ceremony, which unfolded astatine Brooklyn’s Kings Theater up of a BET telecast connected Sept. 12, celebrated the biggest artists and buzziest records crossed Caribbean euphony implicit the past year, with implicit 40 categories honoring genres similar reggae, dancehall, soca, zess-steam, konpa, calypso, gospel and R&B.
Shenseea, who tied Masicka arsenic this year’s most-nominated creator (seven apiece), was the night’s biggest winner, with 5 victories, including dancehall album, opus and collaboration of the year. King of Dancehall Vybz Kartel, who kicked disconnected 2025 with a revelatory Billboard screen story, took location 3 awards, including antheral dancehall creator of the twelvemonth and euphony lawsuit of the twelvemonth for his seismic Kingston-conquering Freedom Street performance past December. Lady Lava, whose “Ring Finger” earned an effusive co-sign from Cardi B, won the inaugural zess-steam creator of the twelvemonth award, and Yung Bredda and Armanii took location this year’s interaction awards for soca and dancehall, respectively.
Outside of the hardware, this year’s ceremonial besides featured a slew of roof-raising performances from acts specified arsenic Elephant Man, Full Blown, Lady Lava, Lila Iké, Romain Virgo and more. Although Spice and Kes were named performers of the twelvemonth for dancehall and soca, respectively, neither enactment graced the stage. Additionally, nary of the night’s peculiar honorees (Busta Rhymes, Bounty Killer, Sizzla, Kerwin Du Bois, Shirley Ann Cyril-Mayers, Austin “Super Blue” Lyons and Carimi) performed, prevention for an impromptu freestyle from Bounty adjacent the extremity of his beingness accomplishment grant acceptance speech. All of their on-stage absences were surely felt, but this year’s Caribbean Music Awards featured a lineup that pleased euphony lovers crossed generations and genres.
Here’s Billboard’s ranking of each show astatine the 2025 Caribbean Music Awards.
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