Afropiano
Afropiano is a blend of Nigerian Afrobeats and South African amapiano, pairing Afrobeats vocals with amapiano's log drum bass and slow house groove.
Amapiano's marks are a deep, sliding bass sound called the log drum, shakers, airy keyboard chords and a relaxed tempo. Nigerian producers and singers began adding these to their songs around 2020, and the mix became one of the main sounds of West African pop in the following years. It differs from South African amapiano by using shorter, verse-and-chorus pop songs with the singer in front.
- Family
- African
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Nigeria, early 2020s
- Also called
- Naija amapiano
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,900 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have afropiano among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Afropiano artists
Burna Boy
Rema
Asake
Wizkid
Davido
Ayra Starr
Fireboy DML
Blaqbonez
Victony
BNXNThe afropiano artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.