Artist profile
CKay is a Nigerian artist working in Afrobeats and contemporary African pop. His music blends melodic sensibilities with production rooted in West African sounds and modern digital production.
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Ckay is a moderate-energy with strong groove and a warm production — mostly instrumental artist.
Sits right in the typical African pocket.
Across 21 analysed tracks, Ckay averages 73% groove — groovier than 62% of individual African tracks — and 45% energy, harder than 57%.
Measured against 540 African tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 69–130 BPM with a median of 100 · predominantly minor keys (57% minor) · most common key: 12B (E Major) with 3 tracks.
How Ckay’s production has shifted across their catalog. The radar overlays earlier and recent eras as one shape, the year-by-year chart shows every metric move, and the tempo trend tracks the BPM migration against the typical African tempo.
Across Ckay's catalog, tempos have climbed from ~99 to ~107 BPM.
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We scored every transition between Ckay’s 21 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 13 catalogues clear the bar — a transition counts at 80 chemistry or above, the same number you’ll see on any track page. The 8 with the widest margin over chance are below.
Chance is measured, not assumed: 0.573% of transitions between two randomly drawn tracks by different artists in this catalogue reach 80. Listed alphabetically — the set is reproducible, the order inside it is not.
20 of the 378 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.2. They come from 12 different Ckay tracks.
emiliana → Make It Easy · 2A → 1A · +3 BPM · 86 chemistry
47 of the 840 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.8. They come from 17 different Ckay tracks.
nwayi → Onyeka (Baby) · 9B → 10B · +2 BPM · 87 chemistry
15 of the 840 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.8. They come from 10 different Ckay tracks.
by now → Llamado de Emergencia · 9A → 9A · +3 BPM · 84 chemistry
15 of the 399 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.3. They come from 9 different Ckay tracks.
WAHALA (feat. Olamide) → NO COMPETITION · 8A → 7B · +3 BPM · 88 chemistry
14 of the 273 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.6. They come from 11 different Ckay tracks.
samson and delilah (feat. Mayra Andrade) → understand · 7A → 7A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
15 of the 315 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.8. They come from 9 different Ckay tracks.
48 of the 483 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 2.8. They come from 14 different Ckay tracks.
WAHALA (feat. Olamide) → Oroma Baby · 8A → 9A · −1 BPM · 89 chemistry
41 of the 714 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 4.1. They come from 15 different Ckay tracks.
HALLELUJAH (feat. Blaqbonez) → Bad To Me · 5B → 5B · −2 BPM · 92 chemistry
Chemistry weighs harmonic, rhythmic, energy, groove, mood and vocal compatibility. Tempos are as analysed from the recording — where a genre is habitually detected an octave down, this is how we handle it. Different measurement from the audience-overlap list further down the page.
DJs and producers closest to Ckay by audience overlap — the artists their listeners also play. It’s a taste signal, not a measured key-and-tempo match: good for shortlisting crates when you’re prepping a set around Ckay, then check the chemistry on the pair you actually mix. Eligible names link to their own page.
Similarity data from Last.fm. BPM, key and energy on this page are measured from the recordings in our catalog.
Ckay's tracks in our catalog range from 69 to 130 BPM, with a median of 100 BPM. Across 21 tracks, the most common range falls in the 100–105 BPM bucket.
Ckay's tracks are mostly in minor keys (57% minor across 21 tracks). The most common single key is 12B (E Major) with 3 tracks.
We scored every transition between Ckay's 21 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 13 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Adekunle Gold, Burna Boy, Daddy Yankee are three of them — listed alphabetically, because the set is reproducible and the order inside it is not. A transition counts at 80 chemistry or above, the same number shown on a track page. One measured example: emiliana into Make It Easy, 2A to 1A, 86 chemistry.
Ckay sits closest to Omah Lay, Victony, Fireboy DML in our catalog. That ranking is audience overlap — the artists their listeners also play — rather than a measured key-and-tempo match, so treat it as a shortlist worth digging through, not a promise that any two tracks will beatmatch. The full list, with track counts, is in the Related artists section above.
Our catalog has Ckay releases spanning 2017 to 2025, with the most tracks from the 2020s.
