A new monthly chart built to measure momentum, not mass — spotlighting the artists climbing fastest in the genre.
In March 2026, Mavo topped the Afrobeats Power Ranking. In January, he'd been sitting at 14. Nothing in the numbers had warned us. And by the time our chart caught him at the summit, the climb — the actual story — was already over.
That's the gap this new chart is built to close.
Today, we're launching the Afrobeats Rising Artist Ranking, a monthly companion to the Afrobeats Power Ranking that answers a different question than the one we've been asking for the past year. The Power Ranking tells you who's dominant. The Rising Artist Ranking tells you who's dominant next.
Originally published by NotJustOk.