iTunes Top 40 Afro Soul Songs Chart

The Top Afro Soul Songs on iTunes This Week

The iTunes Top 40 Afro Soul Songs Chart is your weekly window into the world of afro soul — a deeply soulful South African genre blending American soul and R&B influences with African rhythms and storytelling. Updated every week, this chart ranks the top 40 afro soul singles on iTunes, giving you a real-time snapshot of what’s resonating most with fans of the genre right now.

The genre has been shaped by visionaries like Simphiwe Dana, Thandiswa Mazwai, and Zahara who blend poetic lyrics with rich, textured Afro Soul production, whose work defines what afro soul can sound and feel like. Whether the genre has centuries of tradition behind it or only emerged in recent decades, the artists on this chart are its current standard-bearers.

Discover what afro soul sounds like today by exploring the full iTunes Top 40 Afro Soul Songs Chart, updated fresh this week, in the chart below.

Chart updated this week on: 2026-05-14