Nigerian singer Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has made history as the first-ever African artist to surpass ten billion streams on the global streaming music platform Spotify.
The Ojuelegba crooner achieved the feat as his streams across all credits on the platform recently hit the 10 billion-stream mark.
His collaborative hit with Canadian superstar Drake and British singer Tyla is his most-streamed song on the platform, with almost 4 billion streams.
His third studio album, ‘Made In Lagos Deluxe’, is his most-streamed project on Spotify with over a billion streams.
Wizkid’s most-streamed song as lead is ‘Essence’ featuring Tems, which has amassed over 333 million streams.
Meanwhile, American singer Billie Eilish’s ‘Birds Of A Feather’ has surpassed Tones and I’s ‘Dance Monkey’ as the most-streamed solo song by a female artist in Spotify history.
‘Birds Of A Feather’ recently hit 3.37 billion to surpass ‘Dance Monkey’, which has 3.3 billion streams.
