Afrobeats in Album Draft
Afrobeats runs from 70s Afrobeat to today and counts as up-tempo, so it fills the Opener. None of its songs is big enough to lead an album, so plan your number ones elsewhere.
26Afrobeats songs you can draft
1970s–2020s4 decades covered
0big enough for Lead Single
24small enough for the Deep Cut
Which slots Afrobeats fills
- The Opener (track 1): it counts as up-tempo.
- Lead Single (track 3) and The Closer (track 12) want your biggest songs, whatever the genre. No Afrobeats song is big enough.
- Deep Cut (track 9) wants your smallest song. 24 Afrobeats songs qualify.
Albums score higher when they use fewer genres and more decades, so Afrobeats works best as one of two or three genres spread across several eras. How scoring works.
The biggest Afrobeats songs by decade
1970s
- Zombie · Fela Kuti, 1976
- Lady · Fela Kuti, 1972
- Water No Get Enemy · Fela Kuti, 1975
- Gentleman · Fela Kuti, 1973
- Shakara · Fela Kuti, 1972
2000s
- African Queen · 2Baba, 2004
- Do Me · P-Square, 2007
- Yahooze · Olu Maintain, 2007
- Gongo Aso · 9ice, 2008
- Mr Lecturer · 2Baba, 2004
2010s
- Ye · Burna Boy, 2018
- Love Nwantiti · CKay, 2019
- Fall · Davido, 2017
- Ojuelegba · Wizkid, 2014
- If · Davido, 2017
2020s
- Essence · Wizkid, 2020
- Calm Down · Rema, 2022
- Last Last · Burna Boy, 2022
- Free Mind · Tems, 2020
- Rush · Ayra Starr, 2022
Other genres
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