IN PICS | From Zola 7 to Loot Love: Moments from the #SAMA30 nominations ceremony

Some of South Africa’s biggest stars gathered at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand on Thursday for the unveiling of this year's SAMA Awards nominees.

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Take a look at the full list of nominees:

Best Adult Contemporary Album:

• The Misty Cliffs — The Misty Cliffs
• Stimela — Drakensberg Boys Choir
• The Drive — Dr Duda
• Shipwrecked — Jack Atlantic
• Isipho — Smama

Ikwekwezi FM Best African Adult Contemporary Album:

• Isicathamiya For A New Millennium — Thee Legacy
• Amaxesha — Bongeziwe Mabandla
• Reimagined — The Soil
• Sane — Brenda Mtambo
• Umoya — Embracing the Human Spirit — Vusi Mahlasela

Best Afro Pop Album:

• Umkhonto — Zuko SA
• Imizwa — Lwah Ndlunkulu
• Ukhamba — Inkabi Zezwe
• Zulu Romance — Blaq Diamond
• Ugcobo — Nomfundo Moh

Best Alternative Album:

• Layers — Carla Franco
• Enter the Grootness (Deluxe) — Van Pletzen
• Hopeless & Romantic — CHXRL
• I'm With The Singer — I'm With The Singer
• Don’t Forget To Howl — West Coast Wolves

Motsweding FM Best Amapiano Album:

• Boroko Keng — Mellow & Sleazy
• Baba Yaga — De Mthuda
• Dali Dali — Daliwonga
• Isimo — Kabza De Small and Mthunzi
• Kurhula — Kelvin Momo

Best Classical/Instrumental Album:

• Sci-fi, Beats & Life — UBeyond
• End of the Beginning — Fanie Dick
• Lost Time: Bach Cello Suite No 1 — Derek Gripper
• Lofi Chill — Tony Drake
• Relentless — Karen Devroop

Best Collaboration:

• Burning Bush — Mörda and Thukzin
• iPlan — Dlala Thukzin, Sykes and Zaba
• Sgudi Sync — De Mthuda, Da Muziqal Chef and Eemoh featuring Sipho Magudulela
• Water — Tyla and Travis Scott
• Imithandazo — Kabza De Small and Mthunzi featuring Young Stunna, DJ Maphorisa, Sizwe Alakine and Umthakathi Kush

Best Dance Album:

• Asante II — Mörda and Thuksin
• Permanent Music 3 — Dlala Thukzin
• The Star Is Reborn — Zakes Bantwini
• Clickbait — DBN Gogo
• Reputation — Sculptured Music

Best Engineered Album:

• Shaka iLembe Soundtrack Album Volume 2 (Original Music from the Shaka iLembe TV Series) — Mbuso Khoza
• Wake Up, It's Morning — Matthew Mole
• Umoya — Embracing the Human Spirit — Vusi Mahlasela
• Sane — Brenda Mtambo
• Reimagined — The Soil

Best Gqom Album:

• Dark or Durban — Funky Qla
• Gqom To Another Level Vol 1 — Bello No Gallo
• We Don't Play The Same Gqom 2 — QueDj
• TronicsLand Series 2 — Mr Thela
• The Young Prince Of Gqom — General C'mamane

Best Hip-Hop Album:

• Note To Self — FLVME
• I Love It Here — Nasty C
• People Forget To Be People (Deluxe) — Wordz
• Heartbreak Hotel — The Big Hash
• Dust — Priddy Ugly

Best Jazz Album:

• Enhlizweni: Song Stories From My Heartland — Steve Dyer
• Siparia To Soweto — Hugh Masekela and Siparia Deltones
• Rainbow Revisited — Thandi Ntuli and Carlos Niño
• The Past Is Unpredictable, Only The Future Is Certain — Vuma Levin
• In The Wake — Kujenga

Best Kwaito Album:

• Ghetto Skomplaz — Abobhova
• Celebrating 25 Years In The Game — Sbu Malawyer
• Genesis — Taylor K
• Most Wanted — Sykes
• Inzalo YeKwaito 2nd Half — Zinaro

Best Maskandi Album:

• National Anthem — Inkos'yamagcokama
• Uber Driver — Sminofu
• Amakhothangqoko — Mthandeni SK
• Uyihlo noNyoko — Ugatsheni
• Isivulwe Yonke — Ntencane

Best Pop Album:

• You Need Therapy — Mila Smith
• Magic — Will Linley
• 23:23 — Paxton
• Wake Up, It’s Morning — Matthew Mole
• Tyla — Tyla