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Kenyan musician Nyashinski has featured in Spotify’s first Offline/Online performance capture in East Africa, recorded during the streaming platform’s Greasy Tunes Nairobi activation in July 2026.

South Sudan already has musicians and an audience for music, although the market remains relatively small and only a limited number of listeners can regularly pay for recordings and live...

Visa for Music (VFM) will host its professional market from 19 to 21 November 2026 at Théâtre Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco, bringing together music industry professionals from Africa, the...

BMG reported revenue of about $515 million for the first half of 2026, a 4.9% year-on-year increase, as the music company continued to invest in music rights ahead of its...

More than 80 actors, musicians and other performers have called on the UK government to strengthen legal protection against the unauthorised cloning of voices and the use of recorded performances...

The Namibia Annual Music Awards (NAMAs) have opened submissions for their 2026/27 edition, with artists and other music industry professionals invited to enter work across a range of categories.

BET and Spotify have announced the return of the Soul Train Awards to television, with this year’s ceremony set to be recorded in Chicago, where Soul Train originated more than...

Believe has entered into a global partnership with AI music platform Suno, more than four months after the music company began blocking the distribution of tracks created using Suno’s then-unlicensed...

AI music company Suno has launched v6, a new generation of music models that it says has been developed with industry partners including Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe.

Durban Media House and Africori Music Group have announced Digital Maskandi Vol. 1, a forthcoming compilation bringing together established Maskandi artists and performers from other genres in a series of...