CNN Releases List Of Africa’s Biggest Music Stars, Guess Who’s Missing?

CNN releases another controversial list of Africa’s Biggest stars which got some notable names missing.

The list was officially released on the 20th of November and later updated on the 26th of November, probably adding and removing names to suit their ideal list. As at the time of this post, the top 10 names there are;

1. Burna Boy

2. Angelique Kidjo

3. Diamond Platnumz

4. Yemi Alade

5. Tiwa Savage

 

6. Wizkid

7. Mr.Eazi

8. Sho Madjozi

9. Busiswa Gqulu

10. Mwila Musonda

See Twitter reaction’s below:

I just saw CNN list of top 10 African artist and no Ghanaian artist was on the list. we dey here dey fight among ourselves as to who has more hits, biggest int’l collab and stuff. Smh
It’s sad our hardworking artist are not seen there because we dont support each other out there

— Nsawam Micheal Scofield (@OkwasiaBiNti) November 27, 2019

So CNN declared BurnaBoy and WizKid as one of Africans Leading musicians .

But where is Davido on this List

— Spicy️Atarodo️ (@cute_posh) November 27, 2019

I’m not a Davido fan but i know that CNN list is trash, how will you not include Davido in your list?? Who does that.

Davido that did 87M streams in 24hrs for an album.

Yemi Alade over Davido?? Whatttt

— Standard Presenter (@ItsOladeni) November 26, 2019

Davido Dropped From CNN List Of Popular African Musicians https://t.co/MQ455F4JNG

— Sephora News (@SephoraNews) November 27, 2019