Stormzy Thanks The Wrong Radio Station After Triumphing At The Global Awards

An easy mistake to make 😂
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Stormzy has fans chuckling on Thursday (1 March) night, when he made a small slip-up after picking up a prize at the first ever Global Awards.

The ‘Big For Your Boots’ star won the Best R’n’B, Hip-Hop or Grime Artist award, after a fan vote, but when he took to the stage to accept it and give a short speech, Stormzy said: “Big up Magic Radio.”

Now, we love a bit of Magic as much as the next person, but they aren’t actually part of the Global network, which made his shoutout a tiny bit awks (and also pretty funny):

Stormzy just bigged up Magic whilst accepting an award from Global. Someone is furiously deleting Stormzy associated audio from the cartwall as we speak...

— Scott Myers (@ProducerScott) March 1, 2018

I see that Stormzy managed to thank Magic at The Global Awards last night, despite the fact that magic is owned by Bauer. Yet not a single mention of how BBC Sheffield has helped his career.

— Toby Foster (@tobyfoster) March 2, 2018

The fact stormzy just bigged up @magicfm at the @global #GlobalAwards is the best thing ever 😂😂😂👏🏻

— Jack Regan (@JackRegan_) March 1, 2018

Stormzy knows. More of the songs you love innit #magic

— Alex Richardson (@AlexRich84) March 1, 2018

😂😂 @Stormzy1 on way to awards

'So where we going?'

'Some radio awards'

'Which one?'

(Manager looks around taxi, it's tuned into Magic 105.4)

'Ermmm....Magic Stormzy, we're off to the #magicfm awards'

'Sweet.......'

— Charlie Thompson (@BBCcharlie) March 1, 2018

“BIG UP MAGIC” Didn’t expect @Stormzy1 to say THAT! 😮 https://t.co/BDZxYwQAvt

— Stuart Clarkson 🎙 (@stuartclarkson) March 1, 2018

Global did tweet Stormzy’s speech but (perhaps unsurprisingly) they decided to edit out Magic’s mention:

🙏 The legendary @Stormzy1 becomes the inaugural winner of the award for ‘Best RnB, Hip Hop or Grime’ at #TheGlobalAwards 🙏 pic.twitter.com/kezMmG3iYL

— Global (@global) March 1, 2018

Stormzy looks set for another phenomenal year and last week, he was the standout star at the Brit Awards, winning two awards and giving the performance of the night.

The big winners at the Global Awards, which celebrated the network’s favourite artists, were Little Mix, who triumphed in the Best British Group, Best British Act and Best Song categories.

The foursome split up speech duties, with Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards taking the lead while Jesy Nelson, it seems, had the most important job, of making sure everyone had the *most* fun.

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