Check out the Hits Songs from Davido you probably didn’t know were written by other Music artists.
Mp3bullet.ng put together a list of Popular songs from Davido that were written by other music artists.
In the music industry, songwriting is a huge business. Over the years, even Global music stars have released and performed song that was written for them by songwriters.
Although this concept of buying songs is a bit strange to some Nigerian Music fans, it is not wrong. Davido has over the years been slammed for buying songs from other artists.
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In this post, Mp3bullet.ng brings you songs by Davido that was written by other music artists.
Fall
“Fall” is Davido best song to date and also the song that blew him to the International market. The song has earned him global fame since its release in 2017.
The chart-topping song was the first Afrobeat song to be certified gold in the US. Apart from that, the song has also been certified in Canada.
It also became the first Afrobeat song to surpass 200 Million views on Youtube. However, not many know that the “Fall” was Co-written by Kiddominant who also happened to produce it.
During an Instagram live video with Peruzzi, Kiddominant revealed how and Davido created the song.
If
After having a dry spell in 2016, Davido stormed 2017 with the banging “If.” The song found acceptance among music lovers and even had people wondering if the singer really had 30 Billion in his account.
The song was produced by Tekno who also ghostwrote the track.
Davido in an interview revealed that Tekno had reached out to him for a song but due to being busy, he couldn’t meet him until one day Tekno had to drag him from a club to record the song.
Aye
Three years of having back to back hits, Davido dropped the love anthem “Aye” in 2014. The song and its music video were hits and also had people doing covers to it.
From the lyrics and sound, a keen listener can easily guess who wrote the song. The song was co-written by Runtown and T-Spize who also produced the song.
FIA
“Fia” was another hit song by Davido released in 2017 as one of the four hits he dropped in that year that helped solidified his position as one of Nigeria’s biggest acts.
The song was written by Peruzzi who had signed to Davido’s DMW label the previous year.
This revelation became public after Peruzzi’s former label boss, Patrick took to social media to reveal this.
Patrick who had called out the two artists revealed that the song was originally written by Peruzzi and went on to release the original version of “Fia” which Peruzzi sang.
Like Dat
One of Davido’s best and criminally underrated hits, “Like Dat” was released in 2017 and was unfortunately overshadowed by other songs the singer had released that year.
The song which was produced by Shizzi was written by Teni who had taken to Instagram to share the news but ended up getting slammed by fans for revealing it.
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Assurance
This love song was released in 2018 and was dedicated by Davido to his girlfriend, Chioma Rowland in anticipation of her birthday.
This song was also written by Peruzzi and Produced by Speroach.
Risky
Released in 2019, Davido featured Popcaan on this Afrobeat hit. “Risky” was a remake of Davido’s laughable rap freestyle ‘Kilo Kan Mi’ that went viral.
The song was Co-written by Peruzzi.
Blow My Mind
This beautiful Afrobeat fused R’n’B anthem was released in 2019 and features Chris Brown. It would become their first of many collaborations. The song was a hit at the time of release.
The song which was produced by Shizzi was written by Wurld who also co-write Davido’s 2019 “Sweet in the Middle.”
1 Milli
This beautiful love song was released in 2019 as part of Davido’s “A Good Time” album but was released as a single in 2020.
The song was Co-written by Afropop singer, Adekunle Gold. Chioma Rowland played video vixen in the music video.
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Pere
The Afro Trap record featured two of America’s best Hip-Hop stars, Young Thug and music duo Rae Sremmurd. It was released in 2017. o
Davido himself revealed that he co-wrote the song with Dammy Krane. The song was produced by International producer, DJ Mustard.