Will the next global hits from Nigeria have a French accent?Born in the 1970s through the influence of Fela Kuti, regarded as the father of Afrobeats, the genre continues to attract a global audience.

Fela Kuti became the first African to be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy at the Grammys Special Merit Awards. He was honored posthumously on Saturday alongside Chaka Khan,

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture.

Nigerian music has reached a monumental financial milestone, with royalties generated by Nigerian artists on Spotify alone exceeding ₦58 billion in 2024. This staggering figure is more than double that of 2023 and five times greater than 2022 in what ...

A brewing dispute over the disbursement of Nigeria's private copying levy has pitted major record labels against the Nigerian

Nigerian singer and songwriter Simisola Kosoko, popularly known as Simi has opened up on the health and personal challenges that delayed the release of

The real issue at the root of the problem the online media is facing in the music industry in Nigeria is content curation. In 2010 when I first moved to the US for college, things were changing in the industry, and in Nigeria. As I remember, that was ...