Latin America’s recorded music revenues rose by 22.5% in 2024, with streaming accounting for 87.8% of revenues, a staggering ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting on Africa, its diaspora, and hip-hop's class acts today. While his contemporaries chased Afrobeats, Flavour chose to ...

SoundCloud has marked the end of the year by highlighting its top 10 scenes that shook up the platform in 2022. With more than 320 million tracks, it has often been the place where music movements ...

From her 2003 solo debut album, “Dangerously in Love,” through 2008’s “I Am... Sasha Fierce,” the singer born Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was a critically acclaimed commercial powerhouse with a run of ...

One of the most acclaimed musical genres in the world, Afrobeats has made a strong impression on the world scene thanks to its catchy rhythms and lively tunes. Nigerian musicians have led this ...

An Afrobeats musician, Prince Twala, stage name Prince Tweezy, released his debut album in November and still hopes it will give people a new hope for life. The album, titled G.I.F.T.E.D, which stands ...

On her seventh studio album, the pop star bursts back onto the scene with a throbbing record that celebrates the liberating spirit of dance music—from techno to disco to Afrobeats and dancehall. From ...