{"id":21806,"date":"2025-01-03T18:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=21806"},"modified":"2025-01-03T18:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:24:13","slug":"wizkid-makes-history-as-first-african-artist-to-surpass-8-billion-spotify-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=21806","title":{"rendered":"Wizkid Makes History as First African Artist to Surpass 8 Billion Spotify Streams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Nigerian music icon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wizkidofficial.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wizkid<\/a>, has achieved a groundbreaking milestone, becoming the first African artist to exceed 8 billion streams on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">This record includes streams from both his lead and featured tracks. His global hit with Canadian superstar Drake, <\/span><span class=\"s3\">One Dance<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, stands as his most streamed song on the platform, boasting over 2 billion streams. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The track also holds the Guinness World Record as the first single to surpass 1 billion streams on Spotify.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Wizkid\u2019s most streamed album on the platform is the deluxe edition of his fourth studio album, <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Made In Lagos<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, which has amassed nearly a billion streams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In comparison, Burna Boy follows closely with 7.2 billion streams, making him the second most streamed African artist on Spotify. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Notably, Burna Boy also holds the title of the most followed Afrobeats artist on the platform.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian music icon, Wizkid, has achieved a groundbreaking milestone, becoming the first African artist to exceed 8 billion streams on Spotify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9977,3581,9978,9979,330],"class_list":["post-21806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-african-artist","tag-history","tag-spotify","tag-streams","tag-wizkid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21810,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21806\/revisions\/21810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}