A few of the most interesting stats printed in IFPI‘s most recent Global Music Report concerned Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The SSA region was the fastest-growing recorded music region globally for ...

New research argues that generative AI music systems reduce African musical traditions to stereotyped sonic markers while proposing a framework of cultural competence, consent and benefit-sharing to ...

A new award category for music from the continent reflects its exploding cultural and commercial appeal in the United States and beyond. Last December, the Recording Academy convened a listening ...

Thuso Mbedu leads Paramount’s fantasy adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s bestseller, with Tems overseeing a soundtrack featuring ...

From Beyoncé's The Lion King: The Gift to the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack, Billboard rounds up 12 movie soundtracks that include original songs by African… By Heran Mamo African artists ...

African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...

The 2024 Grammy awards will see the introduction of a new category: "best African music performance." When the category was announced last year, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated that it would be ...

This September, North African music is dominated by Sudanese releases from the region and the diaspora.

Over the last decade, Afrobeats has become a global phenomenon, bringing African music into the Western mainstream. There’s now an Afrobeats category at the MTV Video Music Awards, and performers like ...

Dublin, Dec. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Music Industry in South Africa" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report on the music industry in South Africa includes ...

ViacomCBS' MTV Africa Music Awards will return in February, for the first time in years. Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, it will be put on as a virtual event in partnership with Uganda's ...

Universal Music Group has announced a strategic expansion of its Sub-Saharan Africa leadership team, with Sipho Dlamini and Elouise Kelly named CEO and COO of Universal Music South Africa and ...