Burna Boy and Tems are nominated at this year's MTV Video Music Awards. The category created for their genre is not on the list.

The Beninese artist picked up further international recognition this week, four decades into a career that has outlasted several complete cycles of African popular music.

Days after her mother took handmade placards onto Lagos roads to promote it, Ayra Starr's third album arrived. The campaign was the most Nigerian piece of marketing of the year.

'Tell Everybody' pairs Davido with one of the most in-demand voices in contemporary American R&B. The collaboration says something about which direction the traffic is now flowing.

Amid an album about lineage and legacy, the Mayorkun and FOLA collaboration is the track doing the least thinking and the most work.

Seyi Vibez, Mavo and LeoStayTrill are producing some of the most-played records in Nigeria. The sound that mainstream Afrobeats spent years ignoring has become its centre.

Burna Boy, Rema and Wizkid are nominated in the same category at the American Music Awards 2026. An all-Nigerian shortlist is a compliment and a problem.

A new studio album and a global tour taking in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and multiple African cities. Burna Boy's 2026 plan is the largest logistical undertaking of his career.

'Eja Meja' pairs two of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Nigerian music at a point when both are running unusually hot.

Rema, Davido, Burna Boy and Ayra Starr all feature on the official album for a tournament Nigeria did not qualify for. That combination is the whole story of Afrobeats right now.

Davido's sixth studio album arrived on 31 July through DMW and Sony Music. It is the most personal record he has made, and the reception has split along predictable lines.

'Dai Dai,' Shakira and Burna Boy's official 2026 FIFA World Cup song, is still number one on both Billboard Global charts weeks after the tournament ended — the first World Cup anthem to manage the feat.

Tems has been named executive music producer of Paramount's 'Children of Blood and Bone,' the first woman to hold that role on a film soundtrack this size, with Burna Boy, Ayra Starr and Fireboy DML joining the roster.

Nigerian singer Dan RicHeE has set August 26 for 'Wave,' a single that opens with a traditional Igbo Oja flute and leads his seven-track project Pages II, per Vanguard.

From the FIFA World Cup's opening ceremony to a club residency launch in Ibiza, Burna Boy has spent the past several weeks turning in some of the biggest stages of his career, on repeat.

BNXN and Asake released 'Eja Meja' this month, pairing two of Afrobeats' most distinct vocal styles on one EMPIRE-distributed single that has already passed 2.6 million YouTube views.

Seyi Vibez dropped 'GTA' on August 13, turning the video game's chaos and hustle into a two-minute study of Nigerian street life — and it's already pulled in 1.5 million views.

Tiwa Savage opens a new chapter with "Energy," pulling in old Mavin running mate Wande Coal and rising Gen-Z voice Mavo for a track built on pure, unfiltered momentum.

BNXN and Sarz turn loss into rhythm on "Emotional High," a Lagos-shot video that pairs quiet, intimate frames with a story of a man working through absence.

No set, no storyline — just close-up shots, silver glitter text and platinum curls. Fave's new visual for "Dance" bets that a song can carry a video on its own.