These are the Nigerian artistes with the highest monthly listeners on Spotify in May 2022.
Nigerian music has been one of the biggest sounds across the world now and everyday minute Nigerian acts break new milestones, here are the Nigerian artistes with the highest monthly listeners on Spotify in May 2022.
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It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 422 million monthly active users, including 182 million paying subscribers, as of March 2022.
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Nigerian artistes with the highest monthly listeners on Spotify (May 2022)
1. Ckay – 20M
Ckay is almost king on every platform now, thanks to his Viral global hit song Love Nwantiti’ which is raking numbers on all streaming services, including Spotify, Youtube, and Apple Music to name but a few.
Ckay is the only Nigerian artistes with the highest monthly listener since last year in the Nigerian music industry.
2. Burna boy – 9.9M
The global giant and the Grammy award-winning artiste Burna Boy have been winning for a long time now.
Burna has been on top of the game since its inception, topping every single chart, he has left the top 3 in the Spotify monthly listeners before.
3. Fireboy DML – 9.1M
Fitreboy DML has been a global star now since the release of the Peru remix with Ed Sheeran, he has been topping charts with his continental hit.
Breaking different boundaries, he also debuted on hot 100 billboards and other important charts.
4. Wizkid – 7.1M
The Grammy award winner Wizkid has been on top of his game for more than a decade and still forging hard.
He became the first Nigerian artistes to surpass 5 million monthly listeners, and also the most-streamed Nigerian artistes on the platform.
5. Tems – 6.8M
Tems is currently on the verge to become Queen of afrobeat at the space of time, after her career turned feature with Wizkid’s essence, everything changed for good.
In 2021, she was included in Drake’s album CLB, exposing her to a more and wider audience, she debuted on Billboard hot twice in the same year.
6. Rema – 5.9M
Divine Ikubor, popularly known by his stage name Rema, is a Nigerian singer and rapper. He rose to stardom with the release of the song “Iron Man”, which appeared on Barack Obama’s 2019 summer playlist.
In 2019, he signed a record deal with Jonzing World, a subsidiary of Mavin Records.
7. Mr Eazi – 5.3M
Oluwatosin Ajibade better known by his stage name Mr Eazi, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur.
He is a pioneer of Banku Music, a fusion of sound he describes as a mixture of Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian chord progressions and patterns
8 Omah Lay – 4.6M
Stanley Omah Didia, better known as Omah Lay, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer.
He gained widespread recognition in early 2020 after his self-produced single, “Bad Influence”, went viral on social media
9. Davido – 4M
David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, is an American-born Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer. Davido blends traditional African elements with global mainstream pop.
Davido won the Next Rated award in 2012 at The Headies after releasing “Dami Duro”
10. Buju {BNXN} – 3.5M
Daniel Benson (born 19 May 1997) known professionally as Bnxn (pronounced as Benson) and formerly known as Buju, is a Nigerian Afro-fusion singer, songwriter and record producer.