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

Afrobeats has transcended borders, transforming from a Lagos-born sound into a global cultural force. Through streaming ...

Nigerian Afrobeat star Asake dey mourn di death of 20-year-old Karen Lojore, wey die afta one crush wey hapun for di concert ...

Detty December turns Lagos into a global party hub, drawing diaspora crowds and cash, while rising costs and everyday pressures complicate the season for locals.

2025 ended on a note many people did not see coming. YouTube Nigeria, the digital pulse of the country, released its year-in-review and the numbers were something else. On one side you had Afrobeats, ...

With an eye on its international fan base, the N.B.A. has welcomed the influence of African singers like Tems, Burna Boy and Rema. By Emmanuel Morgan A winter afternoon in Salt Lake City might be the ...

Rema and Selena Gomez’s hit song Calm Down (Remix) has reached an incredible milestone. The track is the most-watched Afrobeats music video on YouTube, with 1.244 billion views, and has also gained ...

Background Tobacco imagery in music videos can glamorise smoking, influencing youth attitudes and behaviours, yet its prevalence in Nigerian music, a global cultural force driven mainly by the ...

Videos of delegates leaving a U.N. General Assembly speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been posted online during the 2025 session without the context that they were filmed a year ...

Emerging in the 2000s, Afrobeats is a popular style of West African music that employs polyrhythms and syncopation and draws inspiration from hip-hop, R&B, dancehall and more while incorporating ...

Several years after his trial in the United States, false claims continue to circulate about Ramon Abbas, a Nigerian man convicted of a multimillion-dollar scam. Posts circulating on social media ...

Amazon Prime Video is finally streaming one of the best movies of 2024, and it is doing this exclusively. Right now, the 2024 movie is not streaming on Netflix, Disney+, Peacock, HBO Max, Paramount+ ...