Kojo Blak and Kelvynboy’s megahit called Excellent received no nomination for the 2025 Telecel Ghana Music Awards (TGMAs) because of the timing of its popularity, Charterhouse has explained.

Charterhouse’s Head of Communications and Public Events Robert Klah, spoke on Hitz FM.

Excellent was released on December 12, 2024. However, the song became a hit on traditional and new media in the New Year. Meanwhile, the TGMAs 2025 covers commercially successful songs from January to December 2024.

"If you release a song and we have a deadline for the year and a review, if after two weeks, so to say, the song hasn't garnered enough airplay, publicity streams whatsoever, what's going to happen is that in the category that it's going to be put into, if you consider all the songs that are in that particular basket, so some songs are going to have advantage over that particular song," Klah said.

“By 31 December, what is its performance in comparison to the songs that have been selected in that particular category?”

Klah noted the popularity of Excellent but disputed still it legitimately did not belong on the nomination list for the 26th edition of the Ghana Music Awards.

"If you ask anybody about Excellent today, March, they would tell you it’s a big song. Nobody's arguing about that, because it's a big song. But was it as big as it was on 31st December?" he asked.

"I'm just trying to establish clarity. So we cut it off and then we try to get the necessary numbers or the parameters we use to be able to evaluate."

Meanwhile, in its official statement which alerted the music making community of the scheme accepting nominations for this year's event, Charterhouse noted, "The scheme is accepting submissions for all commercially released works in the year 2024, from January 1st to December 31st."