Spotify: For the Record Podcast Spotlights Fast-Growing African Music Scene

Frank Racioppi
Ear Worthy
2 min readApr 9, 2021

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Following up on Spotify’s recent, buzzy launch into 39 African markets, announced during its Stream On event on February 22, this week’s episode of For The Record (titled “Afropop to Amapiano: African Music Ignites”) takes listeners across the continent from Ghana to Kenya, spotlighting the diverse cultures and sounds of a musical hotbed for expanding genres like Amapiano and Gengetone, and popular collaborations between African artists and mainstream Western stars.

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Frank Racioppi
Ear Worthy

I am a South Jersey-based writer who manages Podcast Reports on Blogger and have a book available on Amazon about podcasts and podcasting called “Ear Worthy.”