Billboard Year-End U.S. Afrobeats Songs of 2022

Tems top charted artist of 2022
Wizkid "Essence" with Justin Bieber and Tems became song of the year.

The Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart ranks the best-performing Afrobeats singles in the United States. Its data is assembled by the charts production manager Michael Cusson, and published on Billboard magazine. At the end of the year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Afrobeats chart based on the information. For 2022, the list was published on December 1, and calculated with data from April 2, 2022, to November 19, 2022.[1]

Billboard named Tems the US top Afrobeats Artist of 2022, making her the first African artist to achieve this honor.[2][3][4] Tems placed ten songs on the list, with one featured song being the highest ranked of them by Wizkid titled "Essence", placed at number one.[1] Essence features guest vocals from Justin Bieber and Tems. The song became the first Nigerian song in history to chart on the Hot 100 chart.[5]

  1. ^ a b Cusson, Michael (December 1, 2022). "Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs". Billboard. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  2. ^ Cusson, Michael (December 1, 2022). "Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs Artists". Billboard. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
  3. ^ "Tems Beats Wizkid, Others To Be Billboard's #1 Top US Afrobeats Artist of 2022". Cool FM – Your Number One Hit Music Station !. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  4. ^ Anderson, Trevor (December 1, 2022). "Tems & 'Essence' Top First-Ever Afrobeats Year-End Rankings: The Year in Charts". Billboard. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  5. ^ Anderson, Trevor (July 15, 2021). "Wizkid's 'Essence' Enters Hot 100: 'Shoutout to Good Music Lovers Everywhere'". Billboard. Retrieved December 31, 2022.