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Afrobeat (also known as Afrofunk[1][2]) is a West African music genre, fusing influences from Nigerian (such as Yoruba and Igbo music) and Ghanian (such as highlife) music, with American funk, jazz, and soul influences. [3] With a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion, [4] the style was pioneered in the 1960s by ...
The U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart is a standard record chart, ranking the most popular Afrobeats songs in the United States and it is published weekly by Billboard. [1]
Afrobeats (with the s) is commonly conflated with and referred to as Afrobeat (without the s); however, these are two distinct and different sounds and are not the same. [ 9 ][ 14 ][ 15 ][ 16 ][ 17 ][ 18 ] Afrobeat is a genre that developed in the 1960s and 1970s, taking influences from Fuji music and highlife, mixed in with American jazz and funk.
African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop, Afro pop or African pop), [1] like African traditional music, is vast and varied. [1] Most contemporary genres of western popular music build on cross-pollination with traditional African American and African popular music. Many genres in popular music of rock, metal, pop, blues, jazz, salsa ...
Music videos. "Calm Down" on YouTube. "Calm Down" (Remix) on YouTube. " Calm Down " is a song by Nigerian singer Rema, from his debut studio album Rave & Roses (2022). It was released on 11 February 2022 through Jonzing World and Mavin as the album's second single. The song charted across Europe, reaching number one on the Belgian Ultratop 50 ...
Newen Afrobeat was founded in 2009 by the Chilean composer and singer Nicholás Urbina, who composed the music for the first, eponymous, album released in 2013. [1][3][4] The intro of the first song Santiago incorporates parts of José Mujica 's speech originally delivered in front of the 2013 UN General Assembly.
Amapiano, a South African music genre taken from the Nguni language word for "pianos", is a subgenre of kwaito and house music that emerged in South Africa in the mid- 2010s. It is a hybrid of deep house, gqom, jazz, soul and lounge music characterized by synths and wide, percussive basslines.
MTV Video Music Awardfor Best Afrobeats Video. Tyla is the most recent recipient for "Water" (2024). The MTV Video Music Award for Best Afrobeats Video award was first introduced at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2023. Ayra Starr and Burna Boy currently hold the most nominated artist in this category, with two nominations each.