For most of October the Apple Music Ghana songs chart has belonged to one man. Kweku Smoke has thirteen songs in the top 20 this week, and eight of the top nine. The one that broke up his run is “Balotelli (Supa)” by Kofi Mole, sitting at number four on the chart for 26 October 2026, between Kweku Smoke’s “Bombele” and “Survivor”.
It is not a new song. Kofi Mole put it out on 4 September as the opening track of his EP 4 DA POPPIN’. When we published our first Apple Music Ghana chart rundown on 28 September it was nowhere in the top 30. Four weeks later only three songs in the country are ahead of it. That is a slow climb, not a first-week spike, and it has happened seven weeks after release.
The numbers behind the climb
The Apple chart is only one measure, and the others tell the same story. The official audio on Kofi Mole’s YouTube channel has passed 390,000 views. On Audiomack, where he uploads his own music and has more than 735,000 followers, “Balotelli” had gone past 2.9 million plays by the last week of October, more than any other track on the EP. Fan-made lyric videos have started to appear on YouTube as well.
There is no guest on it either. Many of his 2026 appearances were features on other people’s songs, so this one carries his name alone.
Who made it
The credits are short. The track was produced and mixed by Pee Gh, and Kofi Mole is the only performer. It runs for 2 minutes 56 seconds and came out through No Gentlemen Allowed, the NGA label he has released under since “Mensah”, with distribution by DistroKid.
The title borrows the name of Mario Balotelli, the Italian striker remembered as much for his “Why Always Me?” T-shirt at Old Trafford in 2011 as for his goals. We have not found Kofi Mole explaining the title, so we will leave the reading of it to the people singing along.
Four tracks, three guests
4 DA POPPIN’ is short and to the point: four songs in just over ten minutes. After “Balotelli (Supa)” comes “Trapper Sem“, his July single with Kuami Eugene, which already had a following before it was added to the EP. Sefa is on the third track, “Asew”, the shortest on the project at under two minutes. Quamina MP closes it on “Wayedew”, the longest at 3:17.
Two singers and a fellow rapper is a mix he has used before. His breakthrough, “Mensah” in 2018, paired him with Kwesi Arthur, and he has worked with singers from Kuami Eugene to Oxlade since.
From Kumasi to the top five
Kofi Mole is Edward Kofi Agyemang Amoah, born in Kumasi on 16 April 1993. He went to Armed Forces Senior High Technical School and started a psychology degree at the University of Ghana before putting it on hold for music. Before the music paid, he cut hair for a living, and he still designs some of his own clothes.
He came up with the No Gentlemen Allowed crew and the GroundUp Chale movement, the same circle that pushed Kwesi Arthur. “Mensah” made his name in 2018, and that year Sarkodie called him onto “Biibi Ba”, which was nominated for Best Hip Hop Song at the 2019 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. “Don’t Be Late” and the 2019 EP Aposor Love followed. Fans also know him as Aposo Gangsta.
A busy 2026
The EP caps a full year. He opened December 2025 with “JO” and closed it with “Odo Bra” alongside Nigeria’s Oxlade. “TRAP HOUSE” followed in April, and “Trapper Sem” in July. In between he kept turning up on other people’s songs: Ypee’s “Shame” with Lalid, ACE ILLY’s “Berma” with Top Wood and Quamina MP, Cata Pot’s “Bra Fie”, Melloboy’s “Yegye Yeni”, and in the weeks after the EP, Quamina MP’s “Call It Whatever” and the “Vroom II” remix with Holyrina and Y Pee.
That pace is nothing new. Since Spread the News in 2017 he has put out Aposor Love, #MoleMondays, Knackaveli, Toopeezy, GYE NYAME and Gangster Love Matter, as well as a run of singles that includes “Makoma” with Sarkodie and Bosom P-Yung. He was named Next Rated Act at the 2019 3Music Awards, the year after Sarkodie brought him onto “Biibi Ba”, and his catalogue has grown every year since.
Why it matters this month
Kweku Smoke’s NO DAYS OFF has flattened almost everything else on the Ghanaian chart since its release. Black Sherif’s SUN SHERIF songs have slipped down, and the Nigerian releases from Asake and Davido are fighting over the middle of the top 20. That a two-month-old rap song with no big-name feature has worked its way past all of them says a lot about how much life Kofi Mole still has in him eight years after “Mensah”.
Whether “Balotelli (Supa)” can go higher is another question with a Kweku Smoke album at the top. But for the first time in weeks the Apple Music Ghana top five has a second name in it, and it belongs to Kofi Mole.
Where to listen
You can play a preview of “Balotelli (Supa)” on its song page, and every track from 4 DA POPPIN’ on the EP page, with links to Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music and Audiomack. More of his catalogue is on the Kofi Mole artist page.
