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Wizkid Becomes First African Artiste To Surpass 8 billion Streams On Spotify

by Cyril Ehis January 16, 2025
by Cyril Ehis January 16, 2025
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

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.
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