Cracking the big Apple
South African music is shining bright as numerous local musicians feature on Apple Music's Best Songs of 2015 list. Released as a 30-track play list on the international music streaming service, the mix features songs lauded as having defined music this year.Seven South African songs are on the list.Prominent House DJ Black Coffee's popular dance song We Dance Again, featuring Nakhane Toure, along with Shekinah, and Kyle Deutsch's Back to the Beach, Nathi's Nomvula, Timo Odv's Save Me, featuring Sarah Jackson, and Dbn Nyts' Shumaya are included.Afrikaans musicians Die Heuwels Fantasties are also there with their song Ballade vir 'n Enkeling, along with Francois van Coke featuring Karen Zoid's Toe Vind Ek Jou.The list, which does not have rankings, places these proudly South African songs alongside international smash hits such as Adele's comeback hit Hello and Grammy-nominated artists The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar's Can't Feel My Face and King Kunta.Other songs to look forward to are Ben Haenow's Something I Need, Meghan Trainor and John Legend's duet Like I'm Gonna Lose You, Ed Sheeran's Photograph, What Do You Mean by Justin Bieber and How Deep Is Your Love by Calvin Harris and Disciple.Apple music is the technology company's streaming service and offers more than 30million songs in its catalogue...
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