Leading youth entertainment brand and Africa’s biggest music television network, MTV Base on Thursday, returned on December 28 with its spectacular and most controversial music list in Nigerian entertainment, ‘The Roundtable’, a show that brings the top media personalities to deliberate on the most noteworthy topics and trends in the music industry.

The roundtable, the ninth edition, aired on MTV Base (DStv Channel 322, GOtv Channel 72) at 20:00 WAT (8:00pm Nigerian time) with three engaging segments – the biggest music moments, the most controversial personality(-ies) in the entertainment space, and the top 10 best albums of 2023.

It features a star-studded lineup of six of the most prominent music voices in Nigeria that include award-winning video jockey, entertainment entrepreneur, artiste cum executive producer, VJ Adams; award-winning on-air personality, Taymi B; award-winning disc jockey, DJ Big N; producer and lifestyle connoisseur, Sunky O; Head of Strategy, Glitch Africa, Tosin Akinbo, and Ejino Valentine, Head, Music and Programming, MTV Base.

Speaking on the show’s comeback, Senior Channels Manager for Paramount in Nigeria, Busola Komolafe, said, “once more, we explored the trends in the music industry that made heads turn all through the year.

“It has indeed been an exceptional 2023 for Nigerian music with global recognition from the MTV VMAs, BET Awards, as well as BET Hip Hop Awards, some of the biggest music collaborations worldwide, and a fair share of controversy.”

With dissenting opinions and arguments on who did what best and what moments are worth remembering this year, the panel interrogated songs from Davido’s gold-certified Unavailable on his record-breaking Timeless album to Asake’s continued mainstream dominance, Burna Boy’s multiple Grammy nods, Afrobeats sweetheart Ayra Starr’s Rush, breakout star Shallipopi taking over the airwaves, Odumodublvck’s Arsenal FC moment, Rema’s global success as well as the late MohBad’s street anthem, Ask About Me.