YBNL/Empire Music signee, Fireboy DML has described Afrobeat singer and multi-instrumentalist, Seun Kuti, as a very down-to-earth personality. Fireboy made this known while discussing a collaborative ...

EMPIRE brought together three of its biggest African stars in its San Francisco studio to spend days creating their next projects. Billboard was there to witness the process. By Dan Rys It was just ...

In February, budding Nigerian pop star Fireboy DML lit up stages across the U.S. on his first American tour, following two well-received albums and a massive single, “Peru” (remixes of which feature ...

After riding the wave of hit singles “Peru” (and the mega-remix with Ed Sheeran) “Playboy”, and “Bandana” with Asake, Nigerian Afrobeats star Fireboy DML has dropped his third studio album, Playboy.

When Fireboy DML turned 10, his mother baked him a makeshift cake. She cut up some old cardboard to make a one and a zero, then stuck the numerals on top of the cake. It wasn’t the grandest of ...

Popular indigenous rapper Olamide Baddo has explained why he decided to sign artists like Fireboy DML, Asake and others to his record label. The YBNL boss informed he decided to sign new artistes at ...

Over the past few months, Afrobeats artist Fireboy DML has been in heavy rotation by way of TikTok and radio play. His song “Peru” received a co-sign by Ed Sheeran, who appeared on a remix of the ...

Afrobeats sensational superstar singer, Adedamola Adefolahan popularly known as Fireboy DML has dropped a fire-cracker single which features fast rising singer/ fellow record-label mate, Asake. The ...

Fireboy DML fire-cracker single “Bandana” featuring fast-rising singer/ fellow record-label mate, Asake is the No.1 song in Nigeria as it rockets to No. 1 on this week’s Nigeria Top 100. “Bandana” ...

Chart rankings on the Nigeria Top 100 are based on weighted formula incorporating audio and video streams within Nigeria, as well as airplay on radio and satellite TV in the country. It is the first ...

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