To receive the Vogue Business newsletter, sign up here. Across music streaming platforms, the Afrobeats genre is experiencing exponential growth. From Burna Boy to Tems, musicians from the continent ...

First of all, it's important to note that Nigerian artists mostly don't make Amapiano. Instead, Afrobeats acts, make a variant of the genre through the adoption of the Log drum which is applied to ...

Musa Keys is fast becoming one of the most in-demand amapiano artists around. Not only has he been performing all around the world, but he also recently drew the attention of Lewis Hamilton last week ...

The 77 Percent takes a closer look at which genre is likely to leave a lasting impact and what's trending these days. In the last two decades, two musical genres with African roots have been making ...

It all began in the heart of the 2020 lockdown when the Lagos-based Lojay, who was at the time a relatively unknown Afro-fusion artist finding his feet, was introduced to the veteran Afrobeats ...

T he explosion of Afrobeats has been one of the biggest stories in the music industry over the past five years, with acts like Burna Boy, Davido, Asake, and Tems becoming global superstars. As ...

This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July-August issue of the magazine. At Afropunk’s 2019 New Year’s Eve festival in South Africa, DJ Moma was scheduled ...

On a Wednesday evening in February, business at Wandegeya Market in Kampala briefly came to a standstill. Two dancers, Basset Fame and Mayani, both popular on social media, had been trading jabs ...

Bomboclat keert op vrijdag 28 en zaterdag 29 augustus terug naar het strand van Zeebrugge en wordt straks weer één van de zomerfinales aan de Belgische kust. Het festival brengt twee dagen lang danceh ...

In 2022, songs classed as Afrobeats, the trendy genre that has kept millions on their feet in the last dozen years and spurred the introduction of an African music category at the Grammy Awards only ...