A new wave of artists is transcending traditional notions of Christian music, drawing young global audiences to faith-based rap, Afrobeats and R&B. Often boosted by social media, many of them got ...

When identical twin sisters Kehinde and Taiwo Lijadu, a music duo known as the Lijadu Sisters, were coming up in the mid '60s, there were hardly any famous women working in the Nigerian pop music ...

Oliver Akinfeleye remembers Burna Boy’s first show in New York. The location was Palladium Times Square, the year was 2017. Akinfeleye, an American Nigerian photographer known professionally as ...

Released on September 29, 2025, ahead of Nigeria's October 1 Independence Day celebrations, the list comes with few surprises as it features the familiar names leading to the global exportation of ...

Nigerian-American Afrobeats superstar Davido is set to bring his latest album, “Oriadé,” to the stage in Lagos, Nigeria for the first time with a three-night residency at the newly remodeled National ...

The top five U.S. Afrobeats Songs Artists of 2022 are Tems, Burna Boy, CKay, Wizkid & Asake. By Trevor Anderson Tems tops the first-ever year-end Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs Artists ranking, ...

Wizkid has requested people stop referring to him as an Afrobeats artist. The Nigerian singer — whose real name is Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun — says he is wrongly labeled as an Afrobeats artist and that ...

In Nigeria in 2022, Afrobeats had an additional layer due to the run-up to the 2023 general elections in February. In my study on the relationship between pop music and electoral consciousness, I ...

A viral allegation claims US intelligence controls leading African musicians, but no public evidence supports it. Industry pressures and streaming data offer more credible explanations for Afrobeats' ...

This photo provided by Kelvin Worthey Jr. shows Christian rapper Childlike CiCi performing on Oct. 12, 2025. (Credit: Kelvin Worthey Jr./Kashvision Multimedia & Broadcasting LLC via AP.) Listen A new ...