Nigerian music is one of the most acceptable music in the world today. Afrobeat is the most populous genre being consumed in Nigeria and outside Nigeria. This genre has given rise to so many stars ...

From producers to performers, Legit.ng in this article list Nigerian music stars like Don Jazzy and Davido who successfully ...

By Efosa Taiwo The Nigerian music industry is known to be among the best in the world with exciting talents and songs that fail not in making waves across continents. 2022, apparently, didn’t ...

Obi Original is an Nigerian Minnesotan making Afrobeats music with his band, Obi Original and The Black Atlantics.

The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock 1972-1977, says that rock’s youth appeal in Nigeria — which set it apart from the then more popular genre of juju — ultimately hurt the genre.

(Spotify) M Motolani Alake In 2021, the world’s largest music streaming service, Spotify will improve its African operation. A Nigerian office is said to be at the forefront of those plans.

Make Music Nigeria, the country’s arm of the global Fête de la Musique movement, has announced plans for its 2025 World Music Day celebration, marking a decade of cultural impact, artiste ...

The lyrics code-switching from Igbo to English language made the highlife genre “an acculturative product of the folk music” of the Igbo culture, from where it blossomed, asserts Ikenna Onwuegbunna, a ...

Not even the Nigerian–Biafran War of 1967 to 1970 could shut down all of Nigeria. In fact, popular music activities boomed in Lagos as bombs rained on Biafra.

And an underlying orientation towards house grooves in Nigerian music's DNA shows the influence of South Africa's long-flourishing Afro-house scene: Naiji pop star Davido's 2014 smash "Tchelete ...

Each night as darkness descends on Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, sweat-drenched young men and women descend on the megacity's numerous nightclubs to dance to the latest hit songs.

In the Nigerian military era of protest music, the government hit back to limit it. Most of Fela’s songs didn’t receive mass media rotation. Peter-side Ottong’s music was banned.