# Prince Nico Mbarga — Every Record We Rank

Prince Nico Mbarga appears 3 times in our Highlife, 1976, and Sung to Someone lists, placing as high as No. 3. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.

- **Ranked entries:** 3
- **Appears on:** Highlife, 1976, and Sung to Someone
- **Year:** 1976
- **Highest placing:** No. 3 in Highlife
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/artist/prince-nico-mbarga/

## Appears on

### [Sweet Mother](https://waxonia.com/track/prince-nico-mbarga--sweet-mother/)

*1976 · Rogers All Stars · No. 3 in [Highlife](https://waxonia.com/genre/highlife/)*

Reckoned to be the best-selling African single ever made. A pidgin-English song about a mother's love over a guitar line of total sweetness, and utterly unembarrassed by any of it.

Also on: [1976](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/), [Sung to Someone](https://waxonia.com/theme/sung-to-someone/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Prince%20Nico%20Mbarga%20Sweet%20Mother) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=CWmecBppkOQ)

### [Sweet Mother](https://waxonia.com/track/prince-nico-mbarga--sweet-mother/)

*1976 · Rogers All Stars · Picked by [1976](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/)*

Reportedly the biggest-selling African record ever made, in a year when the British charts had no idea it existed. Highlife at its most untroubled, and the exact opposite of the entry above from the same country in the same twelve months.

Also on: [Highlife](https://waxonia.com/genre/highlife/), [Sung to Someone](https://waxonia.com/theme/sung-to-someone/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Prince%20Nico%20Mbarga%20Sweet%20Mother) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=CWmecBppkOQ)

### [Sweet Mother](https://waxonia.com/track/prince-nico-mbarga--sweet-mother/)

*1976 · Rogers All Stars · Picked by [Sung to Someone](https://waxonia.com/theme/sung-to-someone/)*

The criterion says one person addressing another. It does not say the other has to be a lover. One of the biggest-selling records ever made in Africa, and it is a grown man thanking his mother, directly, for the nights she did not sleep.

Also on: [Highlife](https://waxonia.com/genre/highlife/), [1976](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Prince%20Nico%20Mbarga%20Sweet%20Mother) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=CWmecBppkOQ)

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