{"id":42505,"date":"2018-01-11T19:17:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T18:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/african-hits-timeline-2017-2-2\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T23:28:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:28:08","slug":"african-hits-timeline-2017-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/african-hits-timeline-2017-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"African Hits Timeline 2017 (2\/2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the second part of our timeline for the African hits of 2017. From Nigerian pop to South African gqom, via Tanzanian bongo flava and Moroccan rap: a 60-track journey to discover the artists who nailed it on YouTube in the last 12 months!<\/span><\/h3>\n

Read also\u00a0: African Hits Timeline 2017 (1\/2)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today in Europe, YouTube view stats are the new index for measuring the success of a track. But in Africa, where only 23.4% of the population have access to internet (against 84% of the Europeans, according to Internet Live Stats survey), this data isn’t enough. And not always available.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is however a great piece of information that helps reveal the main trends that have appeared in the continent. With respectively 57% and 52%, Morocco and South Africa are the leading countries for internet penetration rates, and are two of the main online scenes for African rap in 2017. Far ahead Togo (7.3%) or Guinea (1.8%), for example. Tunisia (48%) set new records with artists like Balti (more than 118 million views on YouTube in only two months with the track “Ya Lili”). Africa’s most populated country – Nigeria (46%) – is still leading the pop scene (Davido, Wizkid, Tekno, Olamide, Runtown, Tiwa Savage).<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, in a field where the dice are loaded, some artists managed to pull it off nicely. Tales of\u00a0kifs<\/i>, diasporas, new record stats or strong characters: these artists all caught our attention in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

Discover African hits timeline’s<\/span>\u00a0playlist on\u00a0<\/span>YouTube<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Spotify<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nJuly, 1st<\/b><\/span>\u00a0–\u00a0The\u00a0ever inspired Arafat DJ (Ivory Coast)<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n