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Lockdown blues: The tunes that got Kenyans through 2020

Nadia Mukami songs were the most streamed among female artistes in 2020.

It is said if life is a song, then love is the music. And for a variety of reasons, love dominated Kenyans’ music choices in 2020.

An analysis of data from Boomplay – a streaming platform with about 50 million active users in 60 countries – shows Kenyans listened to Nadia Mukami, whose songs were the most streamed among female artistes, and Otile Brown, who dominated the male artiste category.

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