Afropop
Afropop is a broad term for popular music from Africa that mixes local rhythms and languages with pop, rock, funk or electronic production.
It can mean anything from Congolese rumba and Senegalese mbalax to South African pop and today's Nigerian hits, so it names a field more than one sound. The word has been used outside Africa since at least 1988, when the US radio show Afropop Worldwide first aired, to present African artists to international listeners. Today it is often used as a looser, pan-African alternative to Afrobeats, which points more narrowly to West African pop.
Artists it is known for: Angélique Kidjo, Youssou N'Dour, Salif Keita, Yemi Alade.
- Family
- African
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A broad heading
- Also called
- Afro-pop, African pop
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,200 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have afropop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Afropop artists
Burna Boy
Rema
Asake
Wizkid
Davido
Ayra Starr
Fireboy DML
Blaqbonez
Victony
BNXNThe afropop 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.