2023 has been another exceptional year for African music – besides catering to pan-African dancefloors and listeners who stream from home, engaging with contemporary African music is trendy and cool.

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 ...

Hip hop has come back in full force this year. In 2021, the genre huffed and puffed in its attempt to blow down the door that stood between it and mainstream relevance as amapinao once again ruled ...

Smile FM has announced an exciting new multi-platform campaign to crown The Best Song of All Time, inviting South Africans to ...

Below, Billboard rounds up 12 movie soundtracks that feature original songs by African artists, in order from newest to oldest.

In Nigeria, Amapiano which packs speaker rattling baselines is quite popular in clubs for its party-starting effect as Nigerian DJs play both the Afrobeats variant and South African Amapiano. One of ...

Nomathamsanqa Sithathu Amapiano star Sir Trill is celebrating a significant milestone in his music career, having reached 1 million followers on Spotify. The South African songwriter and singer took ...

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