Artist profile
Omah Lay is a Nigerian Afrobeats artist known for blending smooth vocals with contemporary production across pop and R&B-influenced soundscapes. His work draws from West African musical traditions while incorporating modern electronic and hip-hop elements.
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Omah Lay is a moderate-energy with strong groove and drive — mostly instrumental artist.
Unusually high energy and drive for African.
Across 13 analysed tracks, Omah Lay averages 59% energy — harder than 95% of individual African tracks — and 73% groove, groovier than 62%.
Measured against 540 African tracks on 11 August 2026.
How Omah Lay’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 Omah Lay's catalog, tempos have eased from ~102 to ~91 BPM; production has brightened; drive has intensified.
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We scored every transition between Omah Lay’s 13 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 14 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.
17 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 8 different Omah Lay tracks.
14 of the 273 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.6. They come from 7 different Omah Lay tracks.
understand → samson and delilah (feat. Mayra Andrade) · 7A → 7A · same BPM · 92 chemistry
14 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 4 different Omah Lay tracks.
Understand (AMÉMÉ Remix) - Extended Mix → Subah · 7A → 7A · +2 BPM · 92 chemistry
14 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 4 different Omah Lay tracks.
Understand (AMÉMÉ Remix) - Extended Mix → Congo · 7A → 7B · same BPM · 87 chemistry
18 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 3 different Omah Lay tracks.
Moving - Francis Mercier Extended Mix → Kokareku - Extended Mix · 9A → 8B · +2 BPM · 88 chemistry
14 of the 520 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 3.0. They come from 4 different Omah Lay tracks.
Moving → Iyakhala feat. Lizwi · 9A → 9A · +1 BPM · 86 chemistry
16 of the 299 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 1.7. They come from 6 different Omah Lay tracks.
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 Omah Lay 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 Omah Lay, 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.
Omah Lay's tracks in our catalog range from 91 to 120 BPM, with a median of 105 BPM. Across 13 tracks, the most common range falls in the 105–110 BPM bucket.
Omah Lay's tracks are mostly in minor keys (85% minor across 13 tracks). The most common single key is 7A (D Minor) with 3 tracks.
We scored every transition between Omah Lay's 13 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 14 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Burna Boy, Ckay, Double Drop 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: soso into Update, 2A to 2A, 85 chemistry.
Omah Lay sits closest to Victony, Fireboy DML, Asake 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 Omah Lay releases spanning 2020 to 2026, with the most tracks from the 2020s.
