Universal Music’s Majority Stake in Mavin Global and the Future of Afrobeats

In this week’s episode of Afrobeats Weekly, Tunde and his co-host, Showontstop discuss Universal Music Group acquiring a majority stake in Mavin Global. 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
05:31 - News 1: Asake surpasses 1 billion Spotify streams across all credits 
News 2: Universal Music Group acquires majority stake in Mavin Global     
16:52 - New music
26:15 - The Charts
27:40 - Eliminate
38:58 - 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.