It has been another year of wins for Afrobeats, both in the dancehalls and on the international scene. We count down the top 15 hits from 2022...
The meteoric rise of Ololade Asake this year from the backwaters of obscurity is like Tems’ rise last year. This year, Tems rendered her take on Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman No Cry’ on the original soundtrack of Marvel Film Wakanda Forever and she is not the only Afrobeats musician to contribute to this high-profile project.
Sold-out international concerts are now a regular fare and newcomer Asake already sold out the 5,000-capacity 02 in Brixton for three nights in December. The Headies committee (Nigeria’s equivalent of the Recording Academy) already has a dilemma on their hands: how would a certain nominee in the Best New Artist category be in contention for Artist of the Year?