This is the break down and the origin of World Wizkid Day with the twitter hashtag #WorldWizkidDay.
The Grammy award-winning singer, Wizkid, trending at number 1 on Nigerian Twitter, courtesy of his fans who are celebrating ‘World Wizkid Day’.
The statement was made to honour Wizkid for his admirable achievements in music and his role as a culture influencer, according to the document, which was signed, stamped, and sealed by the former governor during his tenure.
Which mentioned in the document some of the singer’s achievements, despite the fact that the Starboy was born on July 16, 1990, he is commemorated on October 6 every year, courtesy to former Minnesota governor Mark Dayton, who declared the date ‘Wizkid Day’ in 2018.
Now, let us run down the recent achievement in commemorating World Wizkid Day, Starboy Wizkid had a very massive and impressive year in 2021 with his Made In Lagos album.
Obviously, it’s been a decade since WizKid surfaced in the Nigeria music scene, and yet consciously binding his name into a record-breaker with made in Lagos album.
Made in Lagos is the fourth studio album by Nigerian singer Wizkid. It was released on 30 October 2020 by Starboy Entertainment and RCA Records. The album features guest appearances from Burna Boy, Skepta, H.E.R., Ella Mai, Tay Iwar, Projexx, Tems, Damian Marley, and Terri.
Gradually, Wizkid has been able to fuse both the local audience into the new sound, which rarely happens but then it’s Wizkid and yeah!
Wizkid bags two nominations at the 2022 Grammy Awards ceremony, he was nominated in the categories of Best Global Music Performance and Best Global Music Album.
The nomination came through his smash single, ‘Essence‘ feat Tems, for the category of Best Music Performance, and his Made In Lagos project for the Best Global Music Album category.
The Made in Lagos album topped charts from different Billboard charts including the Hot 100, 200,
Wizkid beat Angelique Kidjo’s 1992 Record on the World Albums Billboard Chart, Wizkid album with 64 weeks at the time of the post to beat Angelique Kidjo’s album Logozo which spent 47 weeks on the chart,
Fela Kuti’s long term record, a total of 45 weeks was also broken by Wizkid respectfully on the prestigious world album chart on Billboard as the highest week spent by any Nigerian artistes on the Billboard world album chart.
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Billboard world album is a chart that ranks the most popular albums in the USA, It is however generated weekly after a track of the album’s physical sales and streams in the US regional criterion by the Billboard website