Kenyans overwhelmingly searched for Nigerian song lyrics on Google this year

As the debate on Kenyans’ love for Afrobeats music over other genres goes on, Google has come out to confirm that, indeed, we consumed a lot of West African music in 2022.

In its data on Kenyans’ top search trends of 2022, the tech company revealed that the top 10 searched lyrics were all Afrobeats songs, save for one local and rather a patriotic song, Peter Kigia’s Tushangilie Kenya (Let’s Celebrate Kenya).

Coming second behind Nigerian singer Ayra Starr’s Rush, Tushangilie Kenya’s interest spiked between August 21 and 27, which is two weeks after Kenyans went to the ballot and a week after William Ruto was declared president.

Google said Kenyans were looking for ‘Tushangilie Kenya lyrics pdf’, ‘patriotic songs’, ‘Tushangilie Kenya taifa letu tukufu lyrics’ and ‘Mungu baba twaomba lyrics’.

Here are the most Googled lyrics by Kenyans in 2022:

1.    Rush Lyrics

2.    Tushangilie Kenya Lyrics

3.    Sugarcane Remix Lyrics

4.    Girlfriend Lyrics

5.    Calm Down Lyrics

6.    Finesse Lyrics

7.    Overdose Lyrics

8.    Cough By Kizz Daniel Lyrics

9.    For My Hand Lyrics