Afrobeats Weekly

In this week’s episode of Afrobeats Weekly, Tunde and his co-host, Showontstop touch on news making the rounds in Afrobeats this week. They also review the 16th Headies award, Patoranking’s World Best album, and all the major songs that dropped this week.


OUTLINE

00:00 - Introduction
02:07 - Fan mail 
03:35 - Response to the fan mail
06:23 - December 19 & 20 announced as dates for Afronation Lagos (Prices 200-300 dollars)
09:23 - BNXN set to release debut album 'Sincerely, Benson' on October 5
10:09 -  Rema’s Calm Down becomes the 1st African Song to Hit A Billion Streams
10:55 - Headies Review - Production
                             The Winners
                              The Good/The Bad
15:50 - New Songs
                    Sweet Tea by Buju
                   Unleash by Poco Lee ft Kizz Daniel
                  So Bad by Boy Spyce    
                  Yo Fam by Sarz, Crayon & Skrillex
22:16 - New Albums
                World Best by Patoranking
27:37 - Spotlight of the week
28:11 - The Chart
30:17 - The Five
37:15 - Sign out





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Creators and Guests

Host
Sho
Afrobeats and Hip-Hop fan
Host
Tunde Adediran
Tunde is an all-around curator of African music with an emphasis on West African sounds and has hosted several web music shows in the past. He currently writes and A&Rs for record labels in Nigeria.

What is Afrobeats Weekly?

Afrobeats Weekly is a podcast about African music that podcast highlights some of the biggest news around the Afrobeats genre and the people behind it - the musicians, producers, writers.