The Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart ranks the best-performing Afrobeats singles in the United States. Its data is assembled by the charts production manager Michael Cusson, and published on Billboard magazine. At the end of the year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Afrobeats chart based on the information. For 2022, the list was published on December 1, and calculated with data from April 2, 2022, to November 19, 2022.
Billboard named Tems the US top Afrobeats Artist of 2022, making her the first African artist to achieve this honor. Tems placed ten songs on the list, with one featured song being the highest ranked of them by Wizkid titled "Essence", placed at number one. Essence features guest vocals from Justin Bieber and Tems. The song became the first Nigerian song in history to chart on the Hot 100 chart.
Year-end list + List of songs on Billboard 2022 Year-End U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart. Title Artist(s) 1 "Essence" Wizkid featuring Justin Bieber and Tems 2 "Peru" Fireboy DML and Ed Sheeran 3 "Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah)" CKay 4 "Free Mind" Tems 5 "Last Last" Burna Boy 6 "Calm Down" Rema and Selena Gomez 7 "Higher" Tems 8 "Finesse" Pheelz and Buju 9 "For My Hand" Burna Boy featuring Ed Sheeran 10 "Found" Tems featuring Brent Faiyaz 11 "Ku Lo Sa" Oxlade 12 "Jerusalema" Master KG featuring Burna Boy and Nomcebo Zikode 13 "Attention" Omah Lay and Justin Bieber 14 "Ye" Burna Boy 15 "Sungba" Asake featuring Burna Boy 16 "Damages Tems 17 "It's Plenty" Burna Boy 18 "Kweku The Traveler" Black Sherif 19 "Emiliana" CKay 20 "Love Me Back (Fayahh Beat)" Trinidad Cardona and Robinson 21 "Peace Be Unto You (PBUY)" Asake 22 "Replay" Tems 23 "On The Low" Burna Boy 24 "Playboy" Fireboy DML 25 "Sugarcane" Camidoh featuring Phantom 26 "The Key" Tems 27 "Terminator" Asake 28 "Monalisa" Lojay, Sarz and Chris Brown 29 "Buga" Kizz Daniel featuring Tekno 30 "Ice T" Tems 31 "Solid" Burna Boy featuring Kehlani and Blxst 32 "Rover" S1mba featuring DTG 33 "Overloading (Overdose)" The Mavins 34 "Palazzo" Spinall and Asake 35 "Understand" Omah Lay 36 "Ameno Amapiano (You Wanna Bamba)" Goya Menor and Nektunez 37 "Bad to Me" Wizkid 38 "Organise" Asake 39 "Girlfriend" Ruger 40 "Fall" Davido 41 "Rush" Ayra Starr 42 "Joha" Asake 43 "Crazy Tings" Tems 44 "I'm a Mess" Omah Lay 45 "Soundgasm" Rema 46 "Electricity" Pheelz and Davido 47 "Toni-Ann Singh" Burna Boy featuring Popcaan 48 "No Woman, No Cry" Tems 49 "Sip (Alcohol)" Joeboy 50 "Omo Ope" Asake and Olamide 51 "Dull" Asake 52 "Different Size" Burna Boy featuring Vict0ny 53 "Common Person" Burna Boy 54 "Ginger" WizKid featuring Burna Boy 55 "Woman" Omah Lay 56 "Nzaza" Asake 57 "Cloak & Dagger" Burna Boy featuring J Hus 58 "N'Y Pense Plus" Tayc 59 "Soweto" Victony and Tempoe 60 "Ototo" Asake 61 "B. D'or" Burna Boy and Wizkid 62 "Baddest Boy" Skiibii and Davido 63 "Jireh (My Provider) (Remix)" Limoblaze, Lecrae and Happi 64 "High" Adekunle Gold and Davido 65 "Dupe" Asake 66 "Stand Strong" Davido featuring Sunday Service Choir 67 "Dada" Young Jonn featuring Davido 68 "Vanilla" Burna Boy 69 "No Wahala" 1Da Banton featuring Kizz Daniel and Tiwa Savage 70 "Infinity" Olamide 71 "Science" Burna Boy 72 "Loving You" Zinoleesky 73 "Cough (Odo)" Kizz Daniel 74 "No Wahala" 1Da Banton 75 "Jagele" Burna Boy 76 "Xtra Cool" Young Jonn 77 "Rollercoaster" Burna Boy featuring J Balvin 78 "Philo" Bella Shmurda and Omah Lay 79 "Kilometre" Burna Boy 80 "Joro" Wizkid 81 "Muse" Asake 82 "Wild Dreams" Burna Boy featuring Khalid 83 "Reason" Asake featuring Russ 84 "Down Flat" Kelvyn Boy 85 "Dirty Secrets" Burna Boy 86 "Love Don't Cost a Dime" Magixx 87 "Always" Darkoo featuring Black Sherif 88 "Interference" Tems 89 "Machala" Carterefe and Berri-Tiga 90 "Soja" Black Sherif 91 "Money & Love" Wizkid 92 "In My Mind" BNXN 93 "Whiskey" Burna Boy 94 "Cold Outside" Timaya 95 "Call Of Duty" Zinoleesky 96 "Kilometer" Buju 97 "Sempe" L.A.X 98 "Ashawo" Fireboy DML 99 "One And Only" ASE 100 "Sunmomi" Asake
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