"Africa" -- Toto's lone Hot 100 chart-topper -- is the band's first entry in YouTube's Billion Views Club. By Katie Atkinson Executive Digital Director, West Coast More than 40 years after topping the ...
In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...
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Africa’s growing influence at the Grammys
It’s not just about who’s nominated, African voices are gaining power within the Recording Academy itself.
In early September, Nigerian singer-songwriter CKay received a text message with a link to TikTok. Some of the app’s users had started recording a dance routine set to his song, “Love, Nwantiti,” ...
In November 2015 Franko’s hit single ‘Coller La Petite’ was banned in part of Cameroon for promoting incest, while in May Ugandan singer Jemimah Kansiime spent five weeks in prison for an ‘obscene’ ...
Last year we saw a hint of what was to come. This year, however, we’ve had the genre’s promise come to fruition, blossoming to legitimately rival Afrobeats as the most popular sound in Africa.
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