TikTok’s influence on music is so great that Billboard has a dedicated chart of songs that perform well on the platform, known as the TikTok Billboard Top 50.

A ranking of the top songs based on streaming and sales activity from within the country- as tracked by Luminate. The ranking is based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both ...

Through the University of Fort Hare, Akhona Ndzuta receives funding from the NRF. Apart from the song’s omnipresence on the sound systems of a cross-section of socio-economic neighbourhoods across ...

A few songs into her set, Sho Madjozi asks her performance deejay to “just throw a beat and I’ll see what I can do.” When the beat, a hard-hitting gqom instrumental, is eventually given to her, she ...

While there are those who place flowers upon graves to honour the dead, others dust off the archives to reissue the music of an artist lost to time. Pianist Gideon Nxumalo, who died in 1970, was ...

Sisanda Nkoala receives funding from the National Research Foundation and has previously been awarded an AW Mellon-UCT Graduate Scholarship in Rhetoric Struggle songs, also known as protest music or ...

Last year we saw a hint of what was to come. This year, however, we’ve had the genre’s promise come to fruition, blossoming to legitimately rival Afrobeats as the most popular sound in Africa.

How do you get people to take personal hygiene seriously in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic? Music and dance. With the whole world almost at a standstill over the rapid spread of coronavirus to ...

Kenya’s music scene has seen great changes since the colonial days, with many local singers finding fame through protest songs. One iconic example is the late Joseph Kamaru, a Kikuyu musician who is ...

The Virginia Arts Festival’s two recent offerings, the Soweto Gospel Choir, back in Norfolk for a third time, and the ...

South Africans are gearing up for new music this holiday season, but 2025 brings a groundbreaking twist: an AI-generated ...

From its star-studded, red carpet premiere to its already-popular soundtrack, the new Lion King remake has caused a frenzy. Just last week, one of the movie’s most high-profile stars, Beyoncé, dropped ...