Mbalax

West African musical style. Emerged 1972. Wikipedia

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40 artists with 759.5K combined listeners. 98% of them sit in the Desert Blues / Ethiopian Pop / Mbalax community on the map. It shares the most artists with Nouvelle Chanson Francaise.

Where Mbalax sits on the map

• Desert Blues / Ethiopian Pop / Mbalax · 39 artists (98%)
• Rap Df / Trap Cristao / Groove Gospel · 1 artists (3%)

Strongest pairings in Mbalax

Mbalax artists who most often share real, user-made playlists.

1. Titi & Pape Diouf · 17 shared playlists
2. Pape Diouf & Thione Seck · 17 shared playlists
3. Youssou N'Dour & Pape Diouf · 16 shared playlists
4. Pape Diouf & Wally B. Seck · 15 shared playlists
5. Youssou N'Dour & Wally B. Seck · 14 shared playlists
6. Titi & Thione Seck · 13 shared playlists
7. Titi & Youssou N'Dour · 13 shared playlists
8. Assane Ndiaye & Youssou N'Dour · 12 shared playlists
9. Pape Diouf & Viviane · 12 shared playlists
10. Assane Ndiaye & Omar Pene · 11 shared playlists

Related genres

Genres that share the most artists with Mbalax, for their size.

• Nouvelle Chanson Francaise · 3 shared artistsBoth: Wally B. Seck, Mia Guisse, Djelykaba Bintou
• Malian Blues · 2 shared artistsBoth: Ismaël Lô, Cheikh Lo
• Desert Blues · 3 shared artistsBoth: Ismaël Lô, Baaba Maal, Cheikh Lo
• French Pop · 2 shared artistsBoth: Youssou N'Dour, Amadeus

Artists

40 artists tagged Mbalax, ranked by listeners.

1. Youssou N'Dour211.8K listeners · Pop
2. Wally B. Seck62.4K listeners
3. Viviane Chidid50.2K listeners
4. Ismaël Lô39.3K listeners · Malian Blues
5. Baaba Maal33.8K listeners
6. Titi32.9K listeners
7. Omar Pene28.7K listeners
8. Jahman X-press27.9K listeners
9. Ashs the Best24.0K listeners
10. Orchestra Baobab23.2K listeners
11. Thione Seck22.4K listeners
12. Pape Diouf22.1K listeners
13. Aida Samb18.8K listeners
14. Cheikh Lo15.2K listeners · Desert Blues
15. Coumba Gawlo12.7K listeners
16. Yoro Ndiaye11.4K listeners
17. Safary11.2K listeners · Trap Brasileiro
18. N'dongo Lo11.2K listeners
19. Momo Dieng9.6K listeners
20. Abdou Guité Seck9.5K listeners
21. Viviane8.8K listeners
22. Amadeus8.2K listeners · French Pop
23. Alioune Mbaye Nder8.0K listeners
24. Sidy Diop7.7K listeners
25. Bass Thioung7.3K listeners · Nouvelle Chanson Francaise
26. Assane Ndiaye7.2K listeners
27. VJ5.6K listeners
28. Mia Guisse5.5K listeners
29. Ndongo Lo4.3K listeners
30. Djelykaba Bintou4.3K listeners · Nouvelle Chanson Francaise
31. Mbaye Dieye Faye3.0K listeners
32. Diaw Diop2.4K listeners
33. Fatou Guewel1.5K listeners
34. Assane Mboup1.1K listeners
35. Salam Diallo1.1K listeners
36. Assane Gaye1.0K listeners
37. Gelongal1.0K listeners
38. Super Etoile De Dakar1.0K listeners
39. Keba Seck1.0K listeners
40. Abou Thioubalo1.0K listeners