Akon returns to music: His thoughts on crypto, AI in songwriting, and working with Michael Jackson

Listen and subscribe to Power Players with Brian Sozzi on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Akon’s career has been a shining example of ...

Akon's UK tour takes strange turn as singer 'crushes' fans and throws water

While Akon and Ne-Yo are currently on their joint 'Nights Like This' world tour, concerts goers in London were left baffled ...

Inside Akon’s wild UK tour with Ne-Yo – and the huge pop star he’d ‘f*****g kill’ to work with next

AKON and Ne-Yo have been the soundtrack of our lives for the past two decades. Between them, they have sold more than ...

Akon on crypto, AI, and Michael Jackson as he returns to music

Listen and subscribe to Power Players with Brian Sozzi on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Akon’s career has been a shining example of ...
Time Out

Ne-Yo and Akon at London’s O2 Arena: timings, set list, last-minute tickets and everything you need to know

Two of R&B’s mightiest titans are currently on a joint tour, bringing some of the noughties’ greatest pop tunes to arenas around the world. Ne-Yo and Akon ’s Nights Like This Tour has already stopped ...

Ne-Yo and Akon review – joyous joint tour is like time-travelling to a messy night out in 2010

From So Sick to Smack That, this double-headliner provides major millennial nostalgia – but goes to show how varied their respective careers were at their peak ...
The Boombox

Akon Concert Set Collapses, Show Canceled

A dark cloud continues to follow R&B singer Akon. Three workers were hurt when part of an outdoor stage set being built for the singer at Emory University in Atlanta collapsed Thursday afternoon. No ...