South African Music Awards (SAMA) recently announced their top five artists with the most nominations across all categories.

2023 has been another exceptional year for African music – besides catering to pan-African dancefloors and listeners who stream from home, engaging with contemporary African music is trendy and cool.

Below, Billboard rounds up 12 movie soundtracks that feature original songs by African artists, in order from newest to oldest.

Nomathamsanqa Sithathu Amapiano star Sir Trill is celebrating a significant milestone in his music career, having reached 1 million followers on Spotify. The South African songwriter and singer took ...

From Sao Paulo to Sweden, thousands of people around the world, including priests, police, ministers and frontline workers, have posted clips of themselves dancing to South African house song ...

In Lesotho, a style of traditional accordion music called Famo has become entangled with deadly gang rivalries. Once the ...