Afrobeats Weekly

In this week’s episode of Afrobeats Weekly, Tunde and his co-host, Showontstop review Shallipopi’s debut album Presido La Pluto and Bloody Civillian’s Anger Management: At Least We Tried. They also touch on news making the rounds in Afrobeats this week and all the major songs that dropped this week.

OUTLINE

00:00 - Introduction
01:30 - Catch up
02:10  Gracey Mae's tweet about Tiwa Savage, Adekunle Gold and Kizz Daniel rescheduled shows
15:50 - Asake makes history as 'Lonely At The Top' reaches 100 million Audiomack stream
17:10 - Grammy Nominations
Best African Music Performance
Asake & Olamide - Amapiano
Ayra Starr - Rush
Burna Boy - City Boys
Davido Featuring Musa Keys - Unavailable
Tyla - Water

Best Melodic Rap Performance
Burna Boy Featuring 21 Savage - Sittin’ on Top of the World
Doja Cat - Attention
Drake & 21 Savage - Spin Bout U
Lil Durk Featuring J. Cole - All My Life
SZA - Low

Best Global Music Performance
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily - Shadow Forces 
Burna Boy - Alone
Davido - Feel 
Silvana Estrada - Milagro Y Disastre 
Falu & Gaurav Shah (ft. PM Narendra Modi) - Abundance In Millets 
Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain ft. Rakesh Chaurasia - Pashto

Best Global Music Album
Susana Baca- Epifanías 
Bokanté - History 
Burna Boy - I Told Them…
Davido - Timeless
Shakti - This Moment

26:15 - New Music 
Holy Ghost Fire by Omah Lay
Oh  My by Fireboy
Do It Right by Teeto Ceemos, Simi and Rukus 
29:44 - New Albums
Presido La Pluto by Shallipopi
Anger Management by Bloody Civilian
39:40 - Spotlight of the week
41:30 - The Charts
43:00 - Sign out

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Creators & 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.