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Nigeria has been called "the heart of African music" thus Nigerian music are born to because of its function in the progress of West African highlife and palm-wine music, which combines native rhythms with techniques imported from the Congo for the development of several popular styles that were exclusive to Nigeria, like apala, fuji, jùjú, highlife, and Yo-pop. Consequently, Nigerian musicians created their own styles of United States hip hop music and Jamaican reggae later called as Nigerian music. Nigeria's musical output has achieved international acclaim not only in the fields of folk and popular music, but also Western art music written by composers such as Fela Sowande.
Nigeria has some of the most highly developed soundtrack studio technology in Africa, and provides strong saleable opportunities for music performers. Ronnie Graham, an historian who specializes in West Africa, has attributed the success of the Nigerian music industry to the country's culture—its "thirst for aesthetic and material success and a voracious appetite for life, love and music, [and] a huge domestic market, big enough to sustain artists who sing in regional languages and experiment with indigenous styles".

Work songs are a ordinary attribute of traditional Nigerian music. They help to keep the rhythm of workers in fields, river canoes and other fields. Women use complex rhythms in housekeeping tasks, such as pounding yams to highly ornamented music. In the northern regions, farmers work together on each other's farms and the host is anticipated to supply musical group for his neighbors.