Tems
Snippet of Burna Boy and Tems Collab for ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Soundtrack Surfaces
Two of Nigeria's biggest voices may finally be sharing a track, and it is tied to one of the most…
Tems’ ‘What You Need’ Logs 30th Week on Billboard Hot 100, Setting a New African Record
Tems wrote "What You Need" seven years ago while getting through a breakup. On October 21, 2026, that same song…
Tems Says Her Second Album Is ‘More R&B Leaning’ and ‘Melancholic’
One of the UK's recent No. 1 singles started as a 30-minute voice memo. Tems revealed in her EE72 cover…
Tems Earns Two Nominations at the 2026 Soul Train Awards
Tems is the only artist nominated in both of the new fan-voted categories at the 2026 Soul Train Awards. That…
Tems and Runtown Headline Spotify Surround Sound in Lagos
Spotify did not sell tickets for this one. Fans who made it into Surround Sound in Lagos were picked by…
‘I’m Not an Afrobeats Artist’: Tems Clarifies Her Unique Sound
Tems has never been easy to box in, and she's making that point louder than ever. The Nigerian singer is…
Afro Plus Fest 2026 Descends on the DMV for Labor Day Weekend With Wizkid, Davido, Tems and Alkaline
The festival that sold out with 20,000 fans last year is coming back six times bigger. Afro Plus Fest returns…
Burna Boy and Tems Score Three Nominations at 2026 MTV VMAs
The most telling detail from this year's MTV VMA nominations is not who showed up, but what disappeared. The Best…
Tems, Burna Boy and Ayra Starr to Shape the Sound of ‘Children of Blood and Bone’
The most interesting thing about the "Children of Blood and Bone" soundtrack is not just who is on it, but who is behind the curation. Director Gina Prince-Bythewood has confirmed…
Tems and Ayra Starr Join Wizkid, Davido and Alkaline on Stacked Afro+ Fest 2026 Lineup
Afro+ Fest just got a serious upgrade. Organizers announced Monday that Tems and Ayra Starr have been added as headliners for the 2026 edition, joining a bill that already had…
Tems Scores Fourth No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay Chart With ‘What You Need’
Tems now has four No. 1s on Billboard's Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, and the path she took to get there is genuinely unlike almost anyone else's in recent memory. "What…
Tems Performs ‘Me & U’ in Crimson Gown at Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening
The booking made complete sense the moment you understood the backstory. Tems has been showing up on Barack Obama's annual playlists for years — "Vibe Out" in 2022, "Love Me…
Vybz Kartel On Afrobeats Vs. Dancehall: “Every Genre Has Its Space”
Dancehall star Vybz Kartel weighed in on the ongoing debate about Afrobeats' rise and its perceived impact on Dancehall. Speaking with TMZ in a new interview on Thursday, Kartel shared…
Tems Acknowledges Buju Banton’s Criticisms Of Afrobeats, But Says Genre Is Escapist Music
Grammy-winning Nigerian singer Tems, in responding to Buju Banton's criticism of Afrobeats as frivolous music, says the genre is intended for escapism as opposed to addressing societal issues. The conversation…
What Afrobeats’ Moment Reveals About Dancehall
Last year, Billboard sounded the alarm about the decline of music’s best-performing genre – Hip-Hop. The publication reasoned that though it remained enormously popular, Hip-Hop’s dominance was noticeably waning –…
Tems Wins NAACP Image Award With Cover Of Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman, No Cry’
For the second year in a row, Nigerian singer Tems has won the NAACP Image Award for Oustanding International Song, this time for her cover of Bob Marley's No Woman,…
