Liberian crooner J_ZyNo comes in at number 6 on our 2023 countdown featuring Lasmid, ‘Butta My Bread’) 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. Older genres classed in the World Music category and headlined by Angélique Kidjo continue to inspire newer genres, Afrobeats and Amapiano. Here are 25 standout tunes of 2023.
Also receive offers from The Africa Report's partners A Wikipedia entry is often reserved for big tunes like ‘Mnike’. Even if you don’t loiter in the Amapiano club, you would have heard ‘Mnike’. With accolades like the coveted top spot of thechart, its retinue of collaborators is hopefully smiling to the bank, doing that slow waist grind choreography in tandem, whistles in their mouths, sibilant hi-hats dictating their pace. Twenty-one-year-old newcomer Tyla took the world by surprise with her monster-sized single, contemplating visceral responses of a risqué kind. ‘Water’ is not about oceanic bodie