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The achievement makes the album the ninth Nigerian project to reach the billion-stream mark on the platform. It is also only the second project by a Nigerian female artist to cross the milestone.

Nigerian Afrobeats star Asake has reached another major career milestone as his hit song “Lonely At The Top” surpasses 200 million streams on Spotify.

The reported deduction totals 1,340,182 streams and affected several songs from the album, including ‘I Know Who I Be,’ ‘Gimme Dat Ting’ and ‘Tell Everybody.’ The figures have been shared by prominent music data-tracking pages like Charts Africa and fans online.

Nigerian music has continued to build an enormous audience on streaming platforms, with six artists now surpassing four billion cumulative Spotify streams across their credits. The figures span different generations of Nigerian music, from established Afrobeats pioneers to...

July 24, (THEWILL) — Nigerian Afrobeats superstar, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has made history by becoming the first African artist to surpass 9 billion total streams on Spotify. The milestone cements Wizkid's position as one of the continent’s...