In 2025, an entity known as Urban Chords released an AI-generated album, “Choir Refix,” which debuted at No. 43 on the Nigerian Official Top 100 Albums chart, with 834,000 on-demand streams. Key takeaways Afrobeat’s global rise has collided with rapid advances in AI music generation and production tools. Beyond not just experimentation. AI is already influencing beat-making, mastering, songwriting, and distribution. The real tension is AI vs artists. But it’s also scale vs culture, efficiency vs originality. We must also account for economics. AI lowers production costs and speeds output in an industry built on volume and virality. I can’t see how the future of Afrobeat is fully AI-generated, but there’s an argument to be made for AI-augmentation. Afrobeat reached a turning point th...