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In the late 2010s and early 2020s, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the South African offshoot of house music, called amapiano, became popular first in South Africa, and then later spread to London and elsewhere worldwide, largely due to online music distribution. Amapiano draws heavily from earlier kwaito house music of South Africa and from jazz and chill-out music. In 2022, the music portal Beatport added an "amapiano" genre to its catalogue.

Fred Again, a United Kingdom-born DJ, released a song called Marea (we’ve lost Daning) about the pandemic. He wrote this song to express his sadness about losing the house music scene including clubs, music festivals, and being able to dance with one another. This is another example of how COVID-19 affected the house music scene.