Nigerian and Ghanaian vocalists CKay and Amaarae have been included in TikTok’s list of the top upcoming musicians for 2021.
CKay and Amaarae have made the list for TikTok’s Emerging Artists of 2021 after an amazing year for both of them with viral hits to their names.
The list was released on Monday, the 13th of December 2021.
With their successful songs, Amaarae and CKay both made it onto the Billboard Hot 100 this year.
Love Nwantiti by CKay, which was released in 2019 as part of his CKay The First EP, has gone viral this year thanks to a remix by Moroccan rapper El Grande Toto.
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The song became almost inescapable on TikTok amassing over a million video creations.
Amaarae’s Sad Girls Luv Money was released on her 2020 album, The Angel You Don’t Know, and she created a remix version with Kali Uchis and Molly which became a TikTok sensation.
Along with performers like Coi Leray, Baby Tate, Jay Wheeler, CKay and Amaarae made the TikTok Emerging Artists of 2021 list.
The musicians on the list were the most popular on TikTok this year.