{"id":220368,"date":"2026-01-13T23:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-moliy-named-spotifys-equal-artist-of-the-month\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:34:08","slug":"ghanas-moliy-named-spotifys-equal-artist-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-moliy-named-spotifys-equal-artist-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Moliy Named Spotify&#8217;s Equal Artist of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><em>Ghanaian sensation <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/2hVWBpjLW4Q7fboYz2pVYK?si=vSHW6yUrTzO0hawW0qrx8w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MOLIY<\/a> takes centre stage as the Spotify <a href=\"http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/37i9dQZF1DX35vibahyjHG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EQUAL Africa<\/a>artist of the month of January 2026. Also gracing the cover of the <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/37i9dQZF1DWU8quswnFt3c?si=uMTlutjUSiClgsF9_6vWwQ&amp;pi=55bUjQtnQtiB9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EQUAL Global<\/a> playlist, she stands as a powerful symbol of the women representing Africa&#8217;s creative expansion and global musical dominance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Known for her hypnotic blend of Afro-pop, Afro-fusion and dancehall, MOLIY&#8217;s sound is playful yet intentional, soft yet powerful. Her music lives where emotion meets movement, earning her a rapidly growing global audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601130131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian sensation MOLIY takes centre stage as the Spotify EQUAL Africaartist of the month of January 2026. Also gracing the cover of the EQUAL Global playlist, she stands as a powerful symbol of the women representing Africa&#8217;s creative expansion and global musical dominance. Known for her hypnotic blend of Afro-pop, Afro-fusion and dancehall, MOLIY&#8217;s sound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,9934,4411,4509,8226,53406,7670,11325,257,254,53407],"class_list":["post-220368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-artist","tag-equal","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-moliy","tag-month","tag-named","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spotifys"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}