{"id":42507,"date":"2018-01-09T18:32:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T16:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/african-hits-timeline-2017-1-2\/"},"modified":"2020-09-27T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T09:02:19","slug":"african-hits-timeline-2017-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/african-hits-timeline-2017-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"African hits timeline 2017 (1\/2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nigerian pop, South African gqom, Tanzanian bongo flava or Moroccan rap. Here is our timeline for African hits of 2017: a 60-track journey to discover the artists who nailed it on YouTube in the last 12 months\u2026 but not only!<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\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 kifs<\/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> playlist on <\/span>YouTube<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Spotify<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

January, 2nd\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>–\u00a0<\/b>Surfing the gqom* wave (South Africa)<\/i><\/b><\/strong><\/h5>\n