Has Afrobeat Overtaken Reggae/Dancehall in Global Popularity?

[Bondye Vodou]

Modern 'Fro Beats >>> Contemporary Dancehall

 

[concise]

A long time ago.
Hell reggae is not even the most popular music out the islands now, soca passed it a long time ago as well.

 

[Gold]

How much different is Afrobeats from dancehall anyway? Joanna and Fall sound like they could have came out of the Caribbean aside from the vocals

They don't sound alike at all breh

 

[GreatestLaker]

Is reggae even more popular than Dancehall?

 

[StretfordRed]

How much different is Afrobeats from dancehall anyway? Joanna and Fall sound like they could have came out of the Caribbean aside from the vocals

Bro, when afro-beat started to pop in late 90's to early 2000's it was so damn new bare yard man were laughing at it. It has gone through more smoother transitions but it's not similar to dancehall like that. Dancehall is a lot more faster paced, and Afro beat is more in line with RnB, House and funky. Then if you start talking about UK afrobeat then its another story

If you said raggaeton or the other Spanish stuff them maybe.

 

[invalid]

They don't sound alike at all breh

Well, initially, to American ears, it does if you not really paying attention. But as another poster said, afrobeats ends up being easier on the ears.

I should've distinguish dancehall from reggae though, considering it to be the same shyt.

 

[Amor fati]

Yeah Afrobeats has been dominating the airwaves globally, not my type of music but I appreciate the dominance of the genre.

 

[010101]

dancehall & the music from the caribbean is still raw

the content & energy is not for mass consumption

afrobeats has a some dancehall flavor in it but it doesn't have the overload of badness & slackness

caribbean artist too raw & wild with the fukkery to really go pop

ha

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[Bawon Samedi]

Dancehall stans not gonna wanna admit it but it been happened.

And yes, I use to listen to Dancehall when I was a teenager. All you gotta do is compare the artists of both genres.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

How much different is Afrobeats from dancehall anyway? Joanna and Fall sound like they could have came out of the Caribbean aside from the vocals

I can see the influence

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Is reggae even more popular than Dancehall?

Outside of the Northeast, Florida and London so average American brehs know that both genres are different?

 

[get these nets]

I feel like Jamaican migration to England helped push the global appeal of reggae at it's heights.

But the last time I was in London, I felt that African immigrants were overtaking the Jamaican community in influence. I don't know.

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Nigerian and Ghanaian cinema is helping to expand the cultural influence of West Africans. People from my mother's generation watch and enjoy Nollywood films, so I could imagine how popular those films (and Ghally) are among English speaking Islander/African communities around the world.

 

[010101]

Nigerian and Ghanaian cinema is helping to expand the cultural influence of West Africans. People from my mother's generation watch and enjoy Nollywood films, so I could imagine how popular those films (and Ghally) are among English speaking Islander/African communities around the world.

movies so bad it's good

shyte is comedy

ha

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[Bawon Samedi]

I feel like Jamaican migration to England helped push the global appeal of reggae at it's heights.

But the last time I was in London, I felt that African immigrants were overtaking the Jamaican community in influence. I don't know.

And with the African community having large numbers now in Paris, Italy, and Spain, afrobeats is bound to take over even american music.

Ehhh... I don't know about that.....

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

I wanna like it more but I've always been annoyed by autotune