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Afrobeats
Afrobeats is an umbrella name for popular music from West Africa and its diaspora, developed in Nigeria, Ghana and the UK in the 2000s, with the drums leading at a house-like tempo.
- Where and when
- Nigeria, Ghana and the UK, 2000s
- Tempo
- Close to house music
- Played on
- Driving drum programming, electronic or played, voice
- Lesson
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What it is
Afrobeats, not to be confused with Fela Kuti's afrobeat, is an umbrella name for popular music from West Africa and its diaspora that developed in Nigeria, Ghana and the UK in the 2000s.
For the producer. The drum pattern leads, electronic or played, sometimes as important as the lyric, with a momentum and tempo close to house music.
The records that made it
From the lesson Electronic and new, where the sources are listed · links open a search
- 2007Game OverP-Square
- Oliver TwistD'banj · Number 9 in the UK in 2012, the first afrobeats top 10 there.
- OjuelegbaWizkid · Remixed with Drake and Skepta in 2014.
- 2016One DanceDrake with Kyla and Wizkid · Became Spotify's most streamed song.
Afrobeats in this month’s records
New releases the press we read wrote about, tagged afrobeats on MusicBrainz · updated with every build