Mp3bullet.ng presents The successes Davido has earned thus far as a result of the album “Timeless”.
On March 31st, 2023, Davido released his album “Timeless,” and within a short period, it achieved a number of successes.
Nigeria and the rest of the world came to a complete stop when Davido, an Afrobeats singer, released one of the largest and most awaited projects in history on March 31, 2023.
Following the horrible event in 2022, Davido went months without speaking, but his fourth studio album, Timeless, showed the world once again why he is regarded as one of the biggest African artists in the world today.
Nigerian musicians such as Asake, Fave, The Cavemen, DMW’s newest members, Morravey and Logos Olori, as well as Grammy-winning Beninese singer Angelique Kidjo, British rapper Skepta, South African music producer/DJ Musa Keys, Jamaican dancehall/reggae singer Dexta Daps, and South African rapper Focalistic make appearances on the album.
Despite an earlier partial leak, Davido’s ‘Timeless‘ album has been smashing and establishing records since its debut.
Here are the successes the album has recorded so far;
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The Most Streams For An African Album On Spotify On The First Day.
On the first full day of monitoring, 8.4 million streams of “Timeless” were recorded. It became the first African album to record that many streams on the first day of release with this total number of streams.
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The most streams for a song on the Nigerian chart of Spotify.
On the Spotify Nigeria chart for a song’s largest first day streams, Davido was among the top 16 artists. On the first day of tracking, ‘Over Dem‘ ranked top with almost 460,000 streams.
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Album record on Boomplay.
Davido’s album “Timeless” became the first in Boomplay history to reach 10 million stream milestone so quickly.
On April 1, 2023, the popular album broke the milestone of 10 million streams. It also holds the record for breaking the one million streams barrier the quickest, barely 24 hours after release.
Davido’s ‘Timeless’ album also broke the record for the biggest first-day streams on Boomplay— the largest music digital streaming platform in Africa.
The album tallied 7.25M streams on opening day surpassing the previously set record by Burna Boy’s “Love, Damini” (3.38M).
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Top Albums Record on Apple Music UK.
‘Timeless‘ debuted at number one on the Apple Music Top Albums chart in the United Kingdom, making it only the second afrobeats album to do so.
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Top Songs Chart Record on Apple Music.
The entire ‘Timeless‘ album by Davido debuted in the top 100 of the UK’s Apple Music top songs chart, making it the first and only afrobeats album to do so. The singer also made history by becoming the first afrobeats artist to have 10 singles debut in the top 200 on the US Apple Music Top Songs list.
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Highest-charting African album in Apple Music history in the US
Davido’s album “Timeless” became the highest ranking album by an Afrobeats artist less than 24 hours after its release, peaking at Number 2 on the US Apple Music Album chart.
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The most streams on Audiomack on the first day.
On Monday, April 3, 2023, Audiomack declared via their verified Twitter profile that Davido’s “Timeless” has surpassed their previous record for the largest album first-day streaming.
“RECORD-BREAKING: @davido’s #Timeless had over 12 MILLION streams in its first 24 hours, more than any other album on Audiomack, ever!,” Audiomack Africa tweeted.