The iTunes Top 40 Afrobeats Songs Chart is your weekly window into the world of afrobeats — the genre that has arguably been the biggest new force in global popular music in the 2020s. Updated every week, this chart ranks the top 40 afrobeats 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 Wizkid, Burna Boy, Rema, Tems, and Ayra Starr who have taken the infectious rhythms of West Africa to the top of charts worldwide, whose work defines what afrobeats 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 afrobeats sounds like today by exploring the full iTunes Top 40 Afrobeats Songs Chart, updated fresh this week, in the chart below.
Chart updated this week on: 2026-04-16
1.
My Darling
Chella
26 March 2025
2.
History
Cheque & Fireboy DML
02 September 2021
3.
100 Meters
Joeboy & Wizard Chan
18 March 2026
4.
Catapult
Strei & Dxtiny
06 February 2026
5.
Abena
Jubed & KOJO BLAK
03 July 2025
6.
Essence (feat. Tems)
Wizkid
29 October 2020
7.
No Issues
Lasmid & King Promise
07 November 2025
8.
Favourite Girl (with Rema)
Darkoo & Rema
11 August 2024
9.
Kese (Dance)
Wizkid
15 November 2024
10.
Sere
SPINALL & Fireboy DML
04 December 2020
11.
Venus
Faceless & Serøtonin
28 November 2024
12.
Beautiful People
Chike
31 January 2018
13.
Sere (Remix)
SPINALL, Fireboy DML & 6LACK
06 May 2021
14.
Babylon
KiDi
26 February 2026
15.
Baby (Is It A Crime)
Rema
07 February 2025
16.
Non Living Thing (feat. Oxlade)
Sarkodie
30 July 2021
17.
Sankofa
Gyakie
23 May 2025
18.
AMA
Seyi Vibez
14 November 2025
19.
Laho II
Shallipopi & Burna Boy
25 April 2025
20.
Forever (Remix)
Gyakie & OMAH LAY
20 March 2021
21.
If
Davido
17 February 2017
22.
FIA
Davido
10 November 2017
23.
CCTV (feat. Mugeez, Sarkodie & R2Bees)
King Promise
17 May 2018
24.
Fall
Davido
02 June 2017
25.
FEM
Davido
11 September 2020
26.
Rush
Ayra Starr
16 September 2022
27.
Freedom
Shatta Wale
08 October 2017
28.
Overloading (OVERDOSE) [feat. LADIPOE, Magixx & Boy Spyce]
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![Love Nwantiti (ah ah ah) [feat. Joeboy & Kuami Eugene] [Remix] song art](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music115/v4/47/75/a4/4775a4de-e5bd-e553-7dec-5a3911718276/795152501603.jpg/170x170bb.png)