Spotify says Afrobeats songs amassed 13.5 billion streams on its streaming platform in 2022.
The US-owned music streaming platform updated its Afrobeats tracker site with new figures depicting the Nigeria-dominated genre’s six-year growth.
Data on the site — ‘Afrobeats: Journey to a Billion Streams’ — showed that the genre has experienced a surge in popularity on the streaming service.
In 2017, Afrobeats songs were raking in 2 billion annual streams on Spotify. The figure, however, grew at an exponential rate in 2022 to 13.5 billion streams — which is about a 550 per cent increase.
According to the statistics, Afrobeats had 5.9 billion streams in 2020, 8.4 billion in 2021, and then 13.5 billion in 2022.
The 2021-2022 growth represents an impressive 60.7 year-on-year leap.
Spotify, in a report, also revealed that Nigerian artistes generated N11 billion in revenues from the streaming platform in 2022.
It added that the revenues generated by Nigerian artistes on its platform have also increased by 74 percent.
“In 2022, revenues generated by Nigerian artistes from Spotify alone reached over 11,000,000,000 NGN. While Nigerian music industry revenues overall have grown 63% from 2021 to 2022,” the report reads in part.
“According to IFPI, revenues generated by Nigerian artists – from Spotify alone – grew 74% over this same time period.”
Below are some other data points from the streaming service.
Top Afrobeats Artistes Globally
