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Starrgirl’s international run picks up another marker. Ayra Starr’s third album has...
Tems has crossed 6.1 billion streams across all credits on Spotify, adding another milestone to a streaming run that shows no signs of slowing down.
Ayra Starr's Starrgirl keeps climbing. The album has debuted at No. 2 on Spotify's Top Albums Debut Global chart and No. 6 in the US, adding to an already record-breaking first week.
Burna Boy's Twice As Tall turns 6 today. From a historic Billboard 200 debut to his first Grammy win for Best Global Music Album, we look back at the numbers and moments that made this album a turning point for Afrobeats on the world stage.
Wizkid is set to headline the opening night of Detty December Fest 2026 on December 18, kicking off a 13-day celebration of music and culture in Lagos across two stages for the first time.
Burna Boy's historic year adds two more firsts, a 929 million monthly audience on YouTube Music that makes him the fourth artist in the world to reach the mark, and Dai Dai becoming his first song ever to cross 1 billion streams on the platform.
Davido’s Oriadé Debuts at No. 80 on Spotify Global Weekly Albums Chart,...
NoteSphere, the Lagos-based creative culture platform covering African music, fashion, and culture,...
Olamide has earned his first-ever international certifications, with the BPI awarding Silver plaques to “Infinity” ft. Omah Lay and “Amapiano” with Asake, marking a major UK milestone for the YBNL boss.
Dai Dai keeps rewriting Burna Boy's record book, crossing 700 million YouTube views as his first video to reach the mark, while its 300 million Spotify streams make him the first African artist with eight songs at that milestone.
A tender, self-assured meditation on womanhood: ru.’s most fully realized body of...
A RapCaviar placement and a strong Discover Weekly run look similar from the outside, but they come from two entirely different systems, one built on human curation, the other built entirely on listener behavior, and understanding both changes how an artist's rise actually happens.
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