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Afrobeats
Lagos and Accra urban pop mixing highlife, dancehall, R&B and house. Burna Boy, Tems, Wizkid, Rema, Tyla, Davido, Asake and Ayra Starr took it to global charts, Coachella headlines and the O2 Arena, plus collabs with Drake, Bad Bunny and Selena Gomez. The African sound that stopped being niche and started leading global pop.
Origin · Nigeria + Ghana, 2000s
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