![]() Back then, De Small was a rising sensation in his home country with tens of thousands of Spotify monthly listeners in major cities (47K+ in Johannesburg, 24K+ in Pretoria, and 15K+ in Cape Town). “Nana Thula” from De Small’s album Piano Hub was one of the first tracks to be added to AMAPIANO grooves when the playlist was created in June 2020. While there is no geographical data available for Spotify playlist followers, we can look at specific tracks and artists in major playlists to map out the rise of Amapiano. ![]() The playlist includes tracks by some of the most popular artists in the genre such as Uncle Waffles ( who this year became the first Amapiano act to perform at Coachella), Kabza De Small (who was listed in Rolling Stone’s best Afropop songs of 2022 list) and Young Stunna (who was part of Wakanda Forever’s official soundtrack). The platform’s most-followed playlist of this genre, Spotify’s AMAPIANO grooves, debuted on June 6, 2020, and now has more than half a million followers. More than 98% of these playlists have been updated in the last four months, showing the curators’ continued interest in the genre. Sarah Kloboves and Alejandra Arevalo from ChartmetricĬurrently, more than 1.3K public playlists on Spotify contain the word “Amapiano,” with 11 being curated by Spotify. sold through the ticketing platform Shoobs and SoundCloud uploads tagged under the genre. The genre’s Spotify popularity correlated with a rise in Amapiano live events in the U.K. In May 2021, both Gqom and Amapiano playlists saw their first spike, but ultimately the latter stood as the most popular genre–with dozens of Amapiano-focused playlists created every month since. ![]() These two genres fed off the traction from one another to drive them past the barriers of the mainstream during the pandemic. Amapiano, on the other hand, has a more melodic and relaxed sound with elements of jazz and lounge music. Defined as a minimalist and raw sound, Gqom incorporates a fast and intense tempo with heavy basslines and syncopated rhythms. The oldest playlist in our database with the word “Amapiano” in its title and/or description dates back to December 2019–and only a few playlists using this keyword were created monthly throughout the following year.Īround the same time, Gqom-dedicated Spotify playlists started popping up. We consulted Chartmetric’s database of more than 17 million public Spotify playlists to understand the growth of the genre on the platform. Still, the rest of the world wouldn’t begin to catch on until much later, when UK producers began blending Amapiano influences with other Western genres. Early Playlist AddsĪmapiano’s local scene has been blossoming in South Africa for nearly a decade, as early tastemakers embraced the genre’s sound as a celebration of the region’s rich Black culture. With the help of Spotify playlists and city-level listener data available on Chartmetric, we’ll explore how this regional genre broke into today’s global music landscape. Stemming from the South African genres of Kwaito and Gqom, Amapiano is a fusion of house and tribal beats now dominating dance floors around the world. Step into the world of Amapiano, a 2010s-born music genre that blends infectious rhythms, soulful melodies, and the vibrant spirit of South African culture. So for you the only way to customise the font is by using one of these websites and finding the closest match, but it won't be possible to use any font file.By Sarah Kloboves and Alejandra Arevalo from Chartmetric Any normal text (in the regular English alphabet), when copied into the playlist name box, will always be shown in Spotify's custom font. So the playlist creator copied over these special characters to the playlist name which makes it look like the font has changed, where in reality the letters are all special characters. These sites will find special characters (for example, from foreign alphabets) that look like English alphabet letters. Instead, the creator probably used a similar online font editor website as has already been linked to above. The playlist with the custom font that you've shown above does not actually have a custom font for its title. Special characters are letters from foreign alphabets, or symbols, for example. Special characters will almost always look the same regardless of what font is applied to them, where regular letters will change depending on the font that you apply to them, like in Word. There's a difference between a font and special characters which is important to understand. Hey you are trying to do is not possible. ![]()
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