Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has been crowned Africa’s biggest earner on Spotify.
Music statistics monitoring platform, Chart Masters recently revealed the world’s artists earnings monthly earnings on Spotify and Wizkid emerged as Africa’s biggest earner with $1 million.
The list of Africa’s top ten earners is dominated by Nigerians, except for South Africa’s Tyla.
Full list:
1. Wizkid – $1 million
2. Burna Boy – $782,148
3. Tems – $660,210
4. Tyla – $607,804
5. Davido – $458,615
6. Asake – $451,553
7. Omah Lay – $421,123
8. Ayra Starr – $400,972
9. Rema – $367,973
In other news, Canadian rapper Drake and American singer, Taylor Swift are the world’s biggest earners on Spotify with $7,717,904 and $7,713,106, respectively.
The ‘Hotline Bling’ crooner topped the list of the top 10 biggest rappers of the 21st century recently released by the American magazine.
Nick Minaj was the only female rapper on the list.
Drake’s rival, Kendrick Lamar was ranked eight.
Eminem ranked second, Kanye West claimed third, Nelly was fourth, and Jay-Z rounded out the top five.
Full List:
1 Drake
2 Eminem
3 Ye (Kanye West)
4 Nelly
5 Jay-Z
6 Lil Wayne
7 50 Cent
8 Kendrick Lamar
9 Nicki Minaj
10 Ludacris
In other news, Asake has been ranked the most streamed Nigerian singer on Spotify for 2024.
Spotify made this known on Wednesday during the 2024 edition of its annual recap of listeners’ musical choices, ‘Wrapped’.
Also, his albums ‘Work of Art’, ‘Lungu Boy’ and ‘Mr. Money With The Vibe’ dominates the list of most-streamed Nigerian albums of the year 2024.
While Young Jonn’s ‘Jiggy Forever’ ranked most-streamed album of the year, Burna Boy emerged Nigeria’s most-exported artiste and the only Nigerian in the UK’s top 100.
