Billboard Year-End U.S. Afrobeats Songs of 2022
The Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs is a chart that ranks the best-performing Afrobeats singles of the United States. Its data is assembled by the charts production manager Michael Cusson, and published on Billboard magazine. At the end of the year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Afrobeats chart based on the information. For 2022, the list was published on December 1, and calculated with data from April 2, 2022, to November 19, 2022.[1]
Billboard named Tems the US top Afrobeats Artist of 2022, making her the first African artist to achieve this honor.[2][3][4] Tems placed ten songs on the list, with one featured song being the highest ranked of them by Wizkid titled "Essence", placed at number one.[1] Essence features guest vocals from Justin Bieber and Tems. The song became the first Nigerian song in history to chart on the Hot 100 chart.[5]
Year-end list[edit]
| No. | Title | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Essence" | Wizkid featuring Justin Bieber and Tems |
| 2 | "Peru" | Fireboy DML and Ed Sheeran |
| 3 | "Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah)" | CKay |
| 4 | "Free Mind" | Tems |
| 5 | "Last Last" | Burna Boy |
| 6 | "Calm Down" | Rema and Selena Gomez |
| 7 | "Higher" | Tems |
| 8 | "Finesse" | Pheelz and Buju |
| 9 | "For My Hand" | Burna Boy featuring Ed Sheeran |
| 10 | "Found" | Tems featuring Brent Faiyaz |
| 11 | "Ku Lo Sa" | Oxlade |
| 12 | "Jerusalema" | Master KG featuring Burna Boy and Nomcebo Zikode |
| 13 | "Attention | Omah Lay and Justin Bieber |
| 14 | "Ye" | Burna Boy |
| 15 | "Sungba" | Asake featuring Burna Boy |
| 16 | "Damages | Tems |
| 17 | "It's Plenty" | Burna Boy |
| 18 | "Kweku The Traveler" | Black Sherif |
| 19 | "Emiliana" | CKay |
| 20 | "Love Me Back (Fayahh Beat)" | Trinidad Cardona and Robinson |
| 21 | "Peace Be Unto You (PBUY)" | Asake |
| 22 | "Replay" | Tems |
| 23 | "On The Low" | Burna Boy |
| 24 | "Playboy" | Fireboy DML |
| 25 | "Sugarcane" | Camidoh featuring Phantom |
| 26 | "The Key" | Tems |
| 27 | "Terminator" | Asake |
| 28 | "Monalisa" | Lojay, Sarz and Chris Brown |
| 29 | "Buga" | Kizz Daniel featuring Tekno |
| 30 | "Ice T" | Tems |
| 31 | "Solid" | Burna Boy featuring Kehlani and Blxst |
| 32 | "Rover" | S1mba featuring DTG |
| 33 | "Overloading (Overdose)" | Mavins, Crayon and Ayra Starr
featuring Magixx and Boy Spyce |
| 34 | "PALAZZO" | Spinall and Asake |
| 35 | "Understand" | Omah Lay |
| 36 | "Ameno Amapiano (You Wanna Bamba)" | Goya Menor and Nektunez |
| 37 | "Bad To Me" | Wizkid |
| 38 | "Organise" | Asake |
| 39 | "Girlfriend" | Ruger |
| 40 | "Fall" | Davido |
| 41 | "Rush" | Ayra Starr |
| 42 | "Joha" | Asake |
| 43 | "Crazy Tings" | Tems |
| 44 | "I'm A Mess" | Omah Lay |
| 45 | "Soundgasm" | Rema |
| 46 | "Electricity" | Pheelz and Davido |
| 47 | "Toni-Ann Singh" | Burna Boy featuring Popcaan |
| 48 | "No Woman No Cry" | Tems |
| 49 | "Sip [Alcohol]" | Joeboy |
| 50 | "Omo Ope" | Asake and Olamide |
| 51 | "Dull" | Asake |
| 52 | "Different Size" | Burna Boy featuring Vict0ny |
| 53 | "Common Person" | Burna Boy |
| 54 | "Ginger" | WizKid featuring Burna Boy |
| 55 | "Woman" | Omah Lay |
| 56 | "Nzaza" | Asake |
| 57 | "Cloak & Dagger" | Burna Boy featuring J Hus |
| 58 | "N'Y Pense Plus" | Tayc |
| 59 | "Soweto" | Vict0ny and Tempoe |
| 60 | "Ototo" | Asake |
| 61 | "B. D'or" | Burna Boy and Wizkid |
| 62 | "Baddest Boy" | Skiibii and Davido |
| 63 | "Jireh (My Provider) (Remix)" | Limoblaze, Lecrae and Happi |
| 64 | "High" | Adekunle Gold and Davido |
| 65 | "Dupe" | Asake |
| 66 | "Stand Strong" | Davido featuring Sunday Service Choir |
| 67 | "Dada" | Young Jonn featuring Davido |
| 68 | "Vanilla" | Burna Boy |
| 69 | "No Wahala" | 1Da Banton featuring Kizz Daniel and Tiwa Savage |
| 70 | "Infinity" | Olamide |
| 71 | "Science" | Burna Boy |
| 72 | "Loving You" | Zinoleesky |
| 73 | "Cough (Odo)" | Kizz Daniel |
| 74 | "No Wahala" | 1Da Banton |
| 75 | "Jagele" | Burna Boy |
| 76 | "Xtra Cool" | Young Jonn |
| 77 | "Rollercoaster" | Burna Boy featuring J Balvin |
| 78 | "Philo" | Bella Shmurda and Omah Lay |
| 79 | "Kilometre" | Burna Boy |
| 80 | "Joro" | Wizkid |
| 81 | "Muse" | Asake |
| 82 | "Wild Dreams" | Burna Boy featuring Khalid |
| 83 | "Reason" | Asake featuring Russ |
| 84 | "Down Flat" | Kelvyn Boy |
| 85 | "Dirty Secrets" | Burna Boy |
| 86 | "Love Don't Cost a Dime" | Magixx |
| 87 | "Always" | Darkoo featuring Black Sherif |
| 88 | "Interference" | Tems |
| 89 | "Machala" | Carterefe and Berri-Tiga |
| 90 | "Soja" | Black Sherif |
| 91 | "Money & Love" | Wizkid |
| 92 | "In My Mind" | BNXN |
| 93 | "Whiskey" | Burna Boy |
| 94 | "Cold Outside" | Timaya |
| 95 | "Call Of Duty" | Zinoleesky |
| 96 | "Kilometer" | Buju |
| 97 | "Sempe" | L.A.X |
| 98 | "Ashawo" | Fireboy DML |
| 99 | "One And Only" | ASE |
| 100 | "Sunmomi" | Asake |
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Cusson, Michael (December 1, 2022). "Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs". Billboard. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ^ Cusson, Michael (December 1, 2022). "Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs Artists". Billboard. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
- ^ "Tems Beats Wizkid, Others To Be Billboard's #1 Top US Afrobeats Artist of 2022". Cool FM – Your Number One Hit Music Station !. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ^ Anderson, Trevor (December 1, 2022). "Tems & 'Essence' Top First-Ever Afrobeats Year-End Rankings: The Year in Charts". Billboard. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ^ Anderson, Trevor (July 15, 2021). "Wizkid's 'Essence' Enters Hot 100: 'Shoutout to Good Music Lovers Everywhere'". Billboard. Retrieved December 31, 2022.