In 2022, songs classed as Afrobeats, the trendy genre that has kept millions on their feet in the last dozen years and spurred the introduction of an African music category at the Grammy Awards only two weeks ago – cumulatively reached 13 billion streams on streaming platform Spotify.
Since 2017, listenership has grown by 550 percent, with streams coming from all over the globe.
The milestone is an acknowledgement of the road travelled by Afrobeats, a loose grouping of many sounds within Africa with influences by the Black diaspora,…
