black british music (2025)

Afrobeats (plural) is a contemporary West African pop umbrella that blends indigenous Nigerian and Ghanaian rhythms with global Black music—especially dancehall, hip hop, R&B, and highlife.

Alternative R&B (often shortened to alt‑R&B or dubbed PBR&B) is a stylistic offshoot of contemporary R&B that fuses soul and hip hop vocal traditions with experimental electronic production and indie aesthetics.

Alternative pop is a strand of pop music that keeps the melodic accessibility of mainstream pop while foregrounding unconventional songwriting, left‑field production, and an indie or art‑driven sensibility.