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.

An American producer hailed South Africa as home to the best English-speaking MCs outside the US, praising the country’s ...

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 ...

Smile FM has announced an exciting new multi-platform campaign to crown The Best Song of All Time, inviting South Africans to ...

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