These are the 10 most popular African hip hop artists on Spotify this year.

On March 4 this year, Spotify extended its reach in Africa to 38 African countries. The Swedish audio streaming and media app was previously only available in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa and Tunisia.

Spotify’s expansion into more African countries means African stars now have a comprehensive data on how well their music is doing. The platform’s popular songs section and monthly listeners count is an important metric to track your progress and see if your audience and song’s popularity is growing from month to month.

How Spotify Listeners vs. Streams are counted.
Spotify streams are how many times your song is played past the 30 second mark, while Spotify listeners are the unique users who have played your song past the 30 second mark.

Confused? Okay let’s try again.

Spotify only counts a listener as a listener one time but will count multiple streams from that listener if they continue to stream your music past the 30 second mark.

To simply put it; Spotify only counts listeners once, if they have streamed any of your songs in the past 28 days. So if they stream the song multiple times, it still only counts as 1 listener.



If a listener does not continue to listen to any of your music after 28 days they are no longer counted as a monthly listener.

Spotify revealed they chose 28 days because it is the lowest amount of days that a calendar month can have.

With the semantics out of the way, let’s return to why you’re here.

This list contains the most-streamed African hip hop artists on the audio streaming platform as of July 2021. When last checked on July 15, Somali born-rapper K’naan has the most monthly listeners on Spotify with almost 3 million, followed by fast rising Ghanaian star Kwesi Arthur with over 600,000 monthly listeners. Newcomer Blxckie also makes the top ten.

See the full top ten here: https://www.creative-hiphop.com/2021/07/most-popular-african-hip-hop-artists-on-spotify.html?_thumbnail_id=15729