The Nigerian music industry has witnessed various musical runs and this post we’ll analyze the top best musical run.
However, artists somehow have their time or perhaps a peaking period, some tend to be after debut while some are during the debut, Wizkid and Ice Prince are examples of artists that had their best run during their debut period in the Nigerian music industry.
Therefore, a successful musical run entails total dominance with hits either local or global.
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Aside from debut run, here are the top best musical runs after debut;
Olamide 2015
No doubt 2015 was dominated by Olamide, the whole industry felt it, churning out hits back to back and also a worthy mention of signing musical stars to his record label.
Songs like Melo Melo, Bobo, Lagos Boys, Eyan Mayweather, Don’t stop, etc. practically everything Olamide dropped that year was all hits.
Davido 2017
This year was very important for the afrobeat movement, it birthed one of the biggest Afrobeat songs in Africa.
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Songs like Fall, If, Fia, like dat, all the song was a banger and a very big song turnout.
Kizz Daniel 2018
Arguably, 2018 was sure a good year for the Laye crooner as he single-handedly held the industry on hold, releasing his sophomore album titled ‘No Bad song’
in 2018 Kizz Daniel released songs like One ticket, Poko, Madu, Somebody dey, For You etc.
Burna Boy 2019
This also is up in the book of most successful musical runs in the Nigerian music industry, Burna Boy took the industry like a storm, he unleashed African giant flex in the indsutry.
Releasing the Grammy-nominated studio album African Giant containing songs like Anybody, On the Low, Killin Dem etc.