Nigerian Afropop star Asake has released his fourth studio album, M$NEY, on Friday, May 1, 2026, choosing Workers Day to deliver what is shaping up to be one of the biggest Afrobeats releases of the year.
The 13-track project follows his 2024 album Lungu Boy, which was anchored by chart-topping hits including “Active” featuring Travis Scott, “MMS” with Wizkid and “Suru” featuring Stormzy. M$NEY features collaborations with French electronic icon DJ Snake, South African amapiano pioneer Kabza De Small and French-Congolese rapper Tiakola, among others. The tracklist also includes tracks such as “Why Love,” “Worship” and “Badman Gangsta.”
The album was announced through a cinematic teaser video with a gallery-inspired aesthetic, showing Asake walking through a grand marble hall where the names of his new tracks are etched into stone as the floor cracks beneath his feet. 
The album opens with “Siyadumisa,” an isiZulu word meaning “We Give Praise,” a beautiful and spiritually charged intro that immediately signals the ambition of the project. Track two is “Worship” with DJ Snake, a festival-ready collaboration that had already been released as a single and set the tone for the album’s global reach. The sequencing and flow of the tracklist feels almost too deliberate, with each song leading naturally into the next in a way that suggests the project was arranged with real inspiration behind it.
Standout tracks include “Gratitude” and “Forgiveness,” which marry propulsive indigenous grooves and stirring choral refrains with soulful, soul-searching melodies. “Asambe” with Kabza De Small is a momentum-building baller anthem that smoothly blends Afrobeats into amapiano in what can only be described as Afropiano, and it is already a strong contender for the clubs and airwaves across the continent and beyond.
The album also features “Oba,” which carries a golden-age R&B sound, and “BADMAN GANGSTA,” a collaboration with Tiakola that samples Amerie’s 2005 smash hit “1 Thing” and makes it entirely Asake’s own. Throughout the project, Asake manages the same carefully balanced act between authenticity and expansion that has defined his entire career, pulling in internationally recognisable sounds and subsuming them into his own sonic DNA rather than letting them overshadow it. His fúji influences, high-octane beats and powerful hooks remain the dominant force throughout.
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