The hugely popular music video is a testimony to its widespread acclaim. It is another notch in Tanzanian pop star Diamond Platnumz’s belt as an alchemist of international crossover hits. In ...

It might be almost impossible to pinpoint the most popular or successful music productions of the year, as is success really measurable? Should we follow the charts or count the views on YouTube or ...

I tend to listen to music as a way to help make sense of things, but that seemed impossible this year. On my beat there was COVID, of course, but the year began with a deadly crackdown in Uganda. It ...

Surprisingly, only one African song made it onto Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The track is 'Essence,' a collaboration between Nigerian artists Wizkid and Tems. When ...

We're rolling out the 50 tracks that are the most foundational, influential and popular within Afrobeats. Over the last decade, Afrobeats has made significant inroads in the global music industry, ...