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Dancehall artiste Aidonia had, arguably, his most successful year in 2012, since his break eight years ago. However, the artiste was snubbed by at least two popular award shows, ending his successful year on a sour note.

According to Aidonia's manager Lav Lawrence, 2012 was a productive year and he is not upset over Aidonia's omission from the awards.

"I wouldn't say something went wrong on our part because the fans are saying a completely different thing. They are asking why he wasn't nominated. But Aidonia is one of the artiste who is always getting a fight. For 2013, we are definitely going to take the positives from 2012 and just continue to work and work harder," Lav said.

Aidonia received his first one million views on YouTube.com in 2012 for his single Tan Tuddy, a song which was not nominated for song of the year. Lav believes the social network fan base is growing because Aidonia's is moving from the underground market.

"The views have increased because he is more visible, he is doing more videos now but before this he was sorta underground. He didn't go to parties nor stuff like that. For this year we have a series coming up called Run Road, where fans will even get a chance to see the life of Aidonia. We are going to show the stage shows we did in 2012 as well as the recording process how he does his songs, because he doesn't write. So people will see how he comes up with his music," Lav said.

Last year saw Aidonia moving from gun-slinging lyrics to female-oriented songs. Lav says the female fans were requesting a change.

"Over the years Aidonia's most loyal fans have been females and they were asking for more songs geared towards them. When we went to stage shows they are always representing, and we decided that we were gonna do more songs for them."

As it relates to Aidoina's clean slate last year in regards to controversy Lav said: "There is no competition for him right now, he is doing positive songs and he is aiming in a good direction. The music has changed and nobody is fuelling any feud, it's only December you have feuds right now. So for the 11 other months in the year positive music is what we are about," Lav said.

Aidoina is currently working on his debut album as well as a JOP mixtape. Members of the JOP camp like Tan Suh and Deablo have also released mixtapes, while ex-members like Suverto and Navino are focused on their solo careers.