Music legend 2baba trended online after the American entertainment magazine Billboard crowned his 2004 hit song "African Queen" as the greatest song of all time.

Pan-African independent music publisher Amelia Songs recently signed a global partnership with Kobalt Music Publishing.

The songs featured in this five-part series on African music are oddities, especially compared to today’s hits. In an age dominated by dull one-hit wonders that are quickly forgotten, artists of the ...

Our Favorite Afropop Songs and Albums of 2025 So Far For this month’s ‘Made in Africa’ column, we list the music from across the African diaspora we’re taking into the summer ...

Which Afrobeats and Amapiano songs have been making the rounds so far in 2022? We count down the top 5 in each genre.

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.

Amadou Bagayoko and his wife, the singer Mariam Doumbia, rose from icons in Mali to international success over the last two decades. After Mr. Bagayoko’s death, those who knew him chose a few of ...

Master KG's song "Jerusalema" — which has dominated charts this year — is written in isiZulu, a South African language few people speak.

Struggle songs are relevant even in the post apartheid context because they continue to be an important way in which people deliberate on issues.

The ONE Campaign and 10 major African artists have come together to release a music track calling for the world to join in solidarity to fight COVID-19. In partnership with the Nelson Mandela ...