Africa's music scene is exploding with incredible talent! We're diving into the continent's most dynamic and groundbreaking ...

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 ...

Older genres classed in the World Music category and headlined by Angélique ... With accolades like the coveted top spot of the Billboard South Africa chart, its retinue of collaborators is hopefully ...

Akinyemi Ayinoluwa is a Nigerian entertainment lawyer, recently named to Billboard's 2025 Top Music Lawyers list. This honor recognizes him as one of the most influential legal figures shaping today's ...

And Western artists — including Beyoncé, Drake, Usher, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez — have featured African artists in their music or appeared on remixes of already-popular songs.

The last decade and a half has been an incredible period of international growth for African popular music, led by West Africa’s Afrobeats and South Africa’s Amapiano. But the buzz I’ve been ...

This dedicated new category for African music will spur consideration for top general prizes. Tyla has joined Makeba and Masekela in triumphing at the Grammys and on the pop charts. Her next moves ...

“When you talk about music coming from Africa, you’re seeing Afrobeats grow ... became the first Afropop song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2021; Burna Boy’s Love, Damini ...

Atlanta’s popular dance party that celebrates the relentless rhythms of amapiano. The weekly event, formed in 2022, uses amapiano (a jazzy subgenre of South African house music) as a gateway to ...