Two years after Billboard terminated its Reggae Digital Song Sales Charter, the magazine announced yesterday that it has teamed up with Afrobeats Afro Nation international music festival and brand to launch the US first ever Afrobeats song chart.
The announcement seems to mark the upcoming reign of African music, which many have claimed is replacing Dancehall music.In January 2020, Billboard released the weekly Reggae Digital Song Sales chart which listed the downloaded and streaming songs of Reggae and Dancehall in the United States. Reggae Album charts continue to be published weekly.
According to a version from Billboard, the American Afrobeats Songs chart will be shown live on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, and will list 50 of the most popular Afrobeats songs in the United States, "according to a rated formula that includes official streams on registration and advertising. of major audio and video music services, as well as downloadable sales from major music retailers ".According to SVP Billboard and Development Billboard, Silvio Pietroluongo, his organization was proud to showcase the best songs and singers with the new weekly title, "as in most parts of the world, Afrobeats has grown significantly as a genre in America".
“There is still a lot of potential within the region and the community that has grown around it and I believe it is important that with Billboard we now have a US chart that shows this growth and provides a platform for emerging artists from every continent to showcase.
their talents for a new audience, ”Afro Nation founder Obi Asika added. The news appeared to have been touched by Twitter user Dun Rich, the only Dancehall fan, who commented on the Billboard article. "While Dancehall [remains] behind smh," he noted.
His comments echo the sentiments of British disc player David Rodigan, who announced at the Dubwise press launch in November 2019, that " Dancehall music has been replaced by Afrobeats ".
Rodigan had also stated that due to the new voices from Jamaica, “Europeans say it is no longer a dance. It's a non-dancehall song "and many said they took it from Afrobeats because it was beautiful, sweet, easy to play and" you don't have any attitude ".Meanwhile, Kranium recently told The Fix podcast that he was encouraged by the direction in which Dancehall is governed and that comparisons should not be made between the two.
"I don't think there is a need for a comparison between Dancehall and Afrobeats and the reason I always say this is because when Dancehall had their golden age in the 90s to 2005. We had Sean Paul, we had Shaggy, we had and Beenie. Man, we had Brick and Lace, we had Elephant Man, we had Wayne Wonder for example. I could name seven artists who [were] doing well in the main market, "he said."Afrobeats have their time and everything is hot so everything is covered," he added.
He continued, “When it comes to dancehall we can't say right now but it doesn't make sense to fight the emerging music that now gets its props… we have to look for the right records to go through to get it right. shine a light on Dancehall. "
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