Gospel just dethroned Amapiano at the SAMAs – Stats SA, Spotify data may tell us why
Picture: Supplied, Samro The streaming numbers were already telling this story Spotify’s 2025 Loud & Clear report names worship music as one of South Africa’s five fastest-growing genres over the past five years.
It is, therefore, reasonable to conclude that the sheer size of South Africa’s Christian majority explains why a gospel record had a massive, ready-made audience to reach in the first place.
The Southern African Music Rights Organisation (Samro) has congratulated gospel singer-songwriter Nontokozo Mkhize and her co-composers on winning the Samro Highest Airplay Composer Award at the 32nd South African Music Awards (Sama32), held on Saturday night, 15 August 2026, at Sun City Superbowl.
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