While Spotify's Billions Club contains an exclusive group of artists who've had songs reach one billion streams, there's an even more elite crop of African artists who are members. "Essence" ...

The journey to discover and celebrate Africa’s future music stars has begun, as the 9th Edition of the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) has opened the ...

The 2024 Grammy awards will see the introduction of a new category: "best African music performance." When the category was announced last year, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated that it would be ...

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, ...

Afropop — a catch-all term casting a wide net over the diverse musical approaches originating and dominating from Africa — has long been a center of the Black diasporic experience, from which so much ...

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From November 13 to 14, 2025, the AFRICA24 Group ( https://Africa24TV.com) will offer exceptional coverage of the second edition of the Francophone African Music Industry Exhibition, held under the ...

Strings and wood become harp and drum accompanying cellist Abel Selaocoe's chants and throat singing in his new album, Hymns of Bantu, out this month. It's just one of the many ways he makes alchemy ...

VESTAL (WBNG) -- An assistant professor in the Africana Studies Department is sharing his knowledge of song and dance with students. Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame a native of Ghana and has a background ...

African Queen,' calling it both a blessing and a curse. He shares his career struggles and controversy surrounding the track.

Through BOP, the music company also noted that it aims to formalise and improve the African music production business.