Post by poopshark on Jun 21, 2024 10:09:28 GMT -5
Welcome back it’s poopshark again w one final rankdown before schools starts, take 2
There’s little to no Afrobeats love here so I took it upon myself to do an Afrobeats rankdown.
How I compiled this list was, I took every song from the top 30 from the 2022 and 2023 Billboard Afrobeats year end list. I took off one song that was only on the chart cause the beat was taken from an African song (love me back). The total then ended up being only 43 songs, so a couple very nice users sent me a couple of the Afrobeats weekly charts from 2024 and I picked what I thought are the 7 highest Afrobeats hits from 2024 based off their performances, and there you go. 50 Afrobeats songs for a rankdown.
One note, I am choosing the original versions for everything (minus one Burna boy one lol). So as little Western artists as possible. Unfortunately Afrobeats artists have to use Western artists to appeal to Western audiences - which is fine, but I think for this rankdown I’d prefer to celebrate what these artists can do on their own. Sorry Selena Gomez & co. Some songs have Western artists in the OG so some still snuck in. Thanks Ed & Justin.
Please rank each song from #1 (favorite) to #50 (least favorite) and send your list to me by Wed July 24th.
Yap session over, here are the songs you will be ranking:
2 Sugar - Wizkid ft Ayra Starr
Alone - Burna Boy
Angels in Tibet - Amaarae
Asiwaju - Ruger
Attention - Omah Lay & Justin Bieber
Buga - Kizz Daniel ft Tekno
Calm Down - Rema
Charm - Rema
City Boys - Burna Boy
Commas - Ayra Starr
Cough (Odo) - Kizz Daniel
Damages - Tems
Emiliana - CKay
Essence - Wizkid ft Tems
Finesse - Pheelz and Buju
For My Hand - Burna Boy ft Ed Sheeran
Found - Tems ft Brent Faiyaz
Free Mind - Tems
Higher - Tems
Ice T - Tems
It’s Plenty - Burna Boy
Jerusalema - Master KG ft Nomcebo & Zikode
Jump - Tyla, Gunna, & Skillibeng
KU LO SA - A COLORS SHOW - Oxlade
Kwaku the Traveler - Black Sherif
Last Last - Burna Boy
Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah) - CKay
Me & U - Tems
Monalisa - Lojay ft Sarz
On the Low - Burna Boy
Peace Be Unto You (PBUY) - Asake
People - Libianca
Peru - Fireboy DML
Playboy - Fireboy DML
Replay - Tems
Rush - Ayra Starr
Sittin’ on Top of the World - Burna Boy & 21 Savage
Soso - Omah Lay
Soweto - Victony ft Tempoe
Sugarcane - Camidoh ft Phantom
Sungba - Asake ft Burna Boy
Talibans II - Burna Boy & Byron Messia
Terminator - Asake
The Key - Tems
Truth or Dare - Tyla
Tshwala Bam - TitoM& Yuppe ft SNE & EeQue
Unavailable - Davido ft Musa Keys
Water - Tyla
Who Told You - J Hus ft Drake
Ye - Burna Boy
Thank you!
Participants:
1. poopshark
2. singingrulebritannia
3. Mayman
4. jtd Thee Stallion
5. willapted33
6. 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲
7. Anthony !!!!!!
8. zippy
9. 312999
10. joshtheking
11. wrip
12. wheatsquares33
13. Dinosaur Encyclopedia
14. Private Dancer
15. HamedM1 💔
16. reputainbow
There’s little to no Afrobeats love here so I took it upon myself to do an Afrobeats rankdown.
How I compiled this list was, I took every song from the top 30 from the 2022 and 2023 Billboard Afrobeats year end list. I took off one song that was only on the chart cause the beat was taken from an African song (love me back). The total then ended up being only 43 songs, so a couple very nice users sent me a couple of the Afrobeats weekly charts from 2024 and I picked what I thought are the 7 highest Afrobeats hits from 2024 based off their performances, and there you go. 50 Afrobeats songs for a rankdown.
One note, I am choosing the original versions for everything (minus one Burna boy one lol). So as little Western artists as possible. Unfortunately Afrobeats artists have to use Western artists to appeal to Western audiences - which is fine, but I think for this rankdown I’d prefer to celebrate what these artists can do on their own. Sorry Selena Gomez & co. Some songs have Western artists in the OG so some still snuck in. Thanks Ed & Justin.
Please rank each song from #1 (favorite) to #50 (least favorite) and send your list to me by Wed July 24th.
Yap session over, here are the songs you will be ranking:
2 Sugar - Wizkid ft Ayra Starr
Alone - Burna Boy
Angels in Tibet - Amaarae
Asiwaju - Ruger
Attention - Omah Lay & Justin Bieber
Buga - Kizz Daniel ft Tekno
Calm Down - Rema
Charm - Rema
City Boys - Burna Boy
Commas - Ayra Starr
Cough (Odo) - Kizz Daniel
Damages - Tems
Emiliana - CKay
Essence - Wizkid ft Tems
Finesse - Pheelz and Buju
For My Hand - Burna Boy ft Ed Sheeran
Found - Tems ft Brent Faiyaz
Free Mind - Tems
Higher - Tems
Ice T - Tems
It’s Plenty - Burna Boy
Jerusalema - Master KG ft Nomcebo & Zikode
Jump - Tyla, Gunna, & Skillibeng
KU LO SA - A COLORS SHOW - Oxlade
Kwaku the Traveler - Black Sherif
Last Last - Burna Boy
Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah) - CKay
Me & U - Tems
Monalisa - Lojay ft Sarz
On the Low - Burna Boy
Peace Be Unto You (PBUY) - Asake
People - Libianca
Peru - Fireboy DML
Playboy - Fireboy DML
Replay - Tems
Rush - Ayra Starr
Sittin’ on Top of the World - Burna Boy & 21 Savage
Soso - Omah Lay
Soweto - Victony ft Tempoe
Sugarcane - Camidoh ft Phantom
Sungba - Asake ft Burna Boy
Talibans II - Burna Boy & Byron Messia
Terminator - Asake
The Key - Tems
Truth or Dare - Tyla
Tshwala Bam - TitoM& Yuppe ft SNE & EeQue
Unavailable - Davido ft Musa Keys
Water - Tyla
Who Told You - J Hus ft Drake
Ye - Burna Boy
Thank you!
Participants:
1. poopshark
2. singingrulebritannia
3. Mayman
4. jtd Thee Stallion
5. willapted33
6. 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲
7. Anthony !!!!!!
8. zippy
9. 312999
10. joshtheking
11. wrip
12. wheatsquares33
13. Dinosaur Encyclopedia
14. Private Dancer
15. HamedM1 💔
16. reputainbow