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See The Nigerian Albums That Made Rolling Stone’s Best Album Of 2022
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Wizkid, Asake, Cruel Santino make Rolling Stone’s Best Album Of 2022
The end-of-year rankings are coming in, and Nigerian artists continue to win, with some albums making it to Rolling Stone’s renowned 100 best albums of the year list.
Three Nigerian albums made it to the 2022 list of the top 100 albums, according to the American magazine Rolling Stone, all of them were ranked higher than 50.
Wizkid, Asake, and Cruel Santino’s albums received the seal of approval on the list that ranks albums released this year from artists around the world and were published in ascending order.
Wizkid’s More Love Less Ego album had come in at number 26 while Asake’s Mr Money With The Vibe album had come in at number 39. Cruel Santino’s Subaru Boys: Final Heaven had closed the trio at number 40.
Talking about Asake, Rolling Stone wrote;
“Asake has become one of Nigeria’s biggest breakout stars in recent years, thanks to a street-pop sound that mixes up snatches of local styles with big, bold hooks and vivid dispatches of life in Lagos.
Mr. Money With the Vibe was the highest-charting Nigerian debut album to ever hit the Billboard 200, and for good reason: Long on pleasure and presence, it offers everything from a Burna Boy cameo (the remix of “Sungba”) to hypnotically grooving burners (“Joha”) to incantatory slow ones (“Dull,” about refusing to be).”
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On Wizkid’s “More Love Less Ego“, the Publication wrote;
“It was hard to imagine how Wizkid was going to follow up 2020’s Made in Lagos — the beloved album that launched Afrobeats to heights it hadn’t seen before on the charts, sent Wizkid on an uber-successful North American tour, and solidified another new superstar’s place in the current vanguard of African music.
With More Love, Less Ego, he doubled down on the grooves, romance, and sex appeal of his previous smash without outrightly re-creating it. Here, the rhythms are more urgent, the sensuality is deeper, and fun is even more freeing.”
Other artists and their albums featured on the list are Beyonce, Drake, Bad Bunny, Harry Styles, and Taylor Swift among others.