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Wizkid and Tems Break Records as Most-Streamed African Artists on Apple Music’s All-Time List
Nigerian music powerhouses Wizkid and Tems have once again etched their names into the annals of music history, setting new records for African artists globally.
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Apple Music unveiled its official list of the most-streamed songs of all time, spotlighting tracks that have garnered the highest plays on the platform since its inception. Among the global chart-toppers, Wizkid and Tems stood tall as the top-performing African artists, cementing their legacy in the international music space.
Wizkid, through his 2016 global smash hit “One Dance” with Drake and Kyla, emerged as the highest-ranked African act on the all-time chart. The collaboration not only took over global charts upon release but has continued to enjoy immense streaming success almost a decade later, highlighting Wizkid’s enduring influence.
Tems, on the other hand, made history as the highest-ranked and only female African artist on the all-time list. Her Grammy-winning appearance on “Wait For U,” a collaboration with Future and Drake, catapulted her to new heights. The song, released in 2022, received widespread acclaim and reinforced her global appeal.
Beyond the streaming milestones, Tems has also been in the spotlight for her impactful contributions to women in music. Her recently launched initiative aims to empower and support female creatives across Africa’s music industry—adding a layer of purpose to her already impressive artistic journey.
With this achievement, Wizkid and Tems have once again elevated Afrobeats and African music to the global stage, reinforcing the continent’s growing dominance in mainstream music conversations.
Here are the most-streamed songs in history on the streaming platform, Apple Music:
Most streamed songs in Apple Music history (Top 500):
#1 Shape of You
#2 Blinding Lights
#3 God’s Plan
#4 Sunflower
#5 rockstar
#6 One Dance
#7 SICKO MODE
#8 Perfect
#9 No Guidance
#10 bad guy
#11 Closer
#12 Starboy
#13 goosebumps
#14 STAY (The Kid Laroi & Justin)
#15 HUMBLE.…— chart data (@chartdata) July 5, 2025
Most streamed songs in Apple Music history (Top 500):
1 Shape of You
2 Blinding Lights
3 God’s Plan
4 Sunflower
5 rockstar
6 One Dance
7 SICKO MODE
8 Perfect
9 No Guidance
10 bad guy
11 Closer
12 Starboy
13 goosebumps
14 STAY (The Kid Laroi & Justin)
15 HUMBLE.
16 Dance Monkey
17 Freestyle
18 The Box
19 7 rings
20 Someone You Loved
21 Nice For What
22 thank u, next
23 Drip Too Hard
24 Unforgettable
25 In My Feelings
26 Nonstop
27 No Role Modelz
28 Circles
29 Lucid Dreams
30 I Like It
31 XO TOUR Llif3
32 Going Bad
33 HIGHEST IN THE ROOM
34 Dynamite
35 Better Now
36 Congratulations
37 Mask Off
38 For The Night
39 Yes Indeed
40 Sum 2 Prove
41 Passionfruit
42 WAIT FOR U
43 Believer
44 Work
45 Don’t
46 New Rules
47 Wow.
48 Havana
49 Life Is Good
50 lovely
51 Die For You
52 Bank Account
53 Something Just Like This
54 Despacito
55 LOVE.
56 I Fall Apart
57 Cruel Summer
58 when the party’s over
59 That’s What I Like
60 Old Town Road
61 Beautiful Crazy
62 Don’t Start Now
63 Without Me (Halsey)
64 Thinking Out Loud
65 Psycho
66 BUTTERFLY EFFECT
67 Last Night
68 Chasin’ You
69 SAD!
70 Best Part
71 Tennessee Whiskey
72 Thunder
73 Snooze
74 Wants and Needs
75 As It Was
76 Señorita
77 Heat Waves
78 Watermelon Sugar
79 The Hills
80 Blank Space
81 Best I Ever Had
82 Girls Like You
83 Young Dumb & Broke
84 Fuck Love
85 Lose Yourself
86 everything i wanted
87 Exchange
88 Location
89 ROCKSTAR
90 All The Stars
91 Into the Night (夜に駆ける)
92 Better
93 Wild Thoughts
94 Bad and Boujee
95 Say You Won’t Let Go
96 Bodak Yellow
97 Lover
98 drivers license
99 Good Days
100 All I Want for Christmas Is You
101 Woah
102 MIDDLE CHILD
103 Suge
104 Shallow
105 WAP
106 Kiss Me More
107 Shake It Off
108 good 4 u
109 Call Out My Name
110 I Feel It Coming
111 Power Trip
112 Intentions
113 Too Good at Goodbyes
114 Drowning
115 I’m the One
116 Redbone
117 Under the Influence
118 Dreams
119 Someone Like You
120 Wildest Dreams
121 Needed Me
122 Love on the Brain
123 Happier
124 ocean eyes
125 Love Story
126 Controlla
127 Mr. Brightside
128 Money In The Grave
129 DÁKITI
130 Umbrella
131 I Don’t Care
132 Knife Talk
133 Roll in Peace
134 No Flockin
135 All Girls Are the Same
136 Ballin’
137 Low Life
138 What You Know Bout Love
139 Go Crazy
140 Ric Flair Drip
141 Wasted On You
142 ZEZE
143 a lot
144 Hello
145 One Kiss
146 Get You
147 Dried Flower
148 Meant to Be
149 24K Magic
150 Moonlight
151 Style
152 Whiskey Glasses
153 Goodbyes
154 Sweater Weather
155 Eastside
156 Bohemian Rhapsody
157 no tears left to cry
158 X
159 Viva La Vida
160 Yeah!
161 Talk
162 Low Down
163 Save Your Tears
164 Look Back at It
165 Can’t Feel My Face
166 Sure Thing
167 positions
168 Easy On Me
169 When It Rains It Pours
170 Armed and Dangerous
171 Swervin
172 White Iverson
173 Tití Me Preguntó
174 Tunnel Vision
175 Jocelyn Flores
176 MIA
177 Not Like Us
178 This Is What You Came For
179 Baby
180 Love Galore
181 Kill Bill
182 Wet Dreamz
183 Bad Habits
184 BOP
185 Riptide
186 Martin & Gina
187 You Need To Calm Down
188 When I Was Your Man
189 Hurricane
190 Flowers
191 March Madness
192 Castle on the Hill
193 Money Trees
194 DNA.
195 She Got the Best of Me
196 Dior
197 Yellow
198 CAN’T STOP THE FEELING!
199 Pretender
200 You Belong With Me
201 Photograph
202 IDGAF
203 Without Me (Eminem)
204 Marvins Room
205 Mood
206 Take Me to Church
207 Don’t Let Me Down
208 Emotionally Scarred
209 Pink + White
210 Murder on My Mind
211 Kacey Talk
212 Party In the U.S.A.
213 Taste
214 Sugar
215 Walk It Talk It
216 Sativa
217 Love Yourself
218 In da Club
219 The Way Life Goes
220 Just the Way You Are
221 Anti-Hero
222 High Hopes
223 The London
224 In A Minute
225 Love the Way You Lie
226 You Proof
227 Stick Talk
228 Rolling in the Deep
229 More than My Hometown
230 Lean On
231 Adore You
232 Laugh Now Cry Later
233 Don’t Stop Believin’
234 Crazy in Love
235 Oh Okay
236 Hotline Bling
237 Memories
238 Sorry
239 Vete
240 Truth Hurts
241 Billie Jean
242 Pop Out
243 Let Me Love You
244 I Get the Bag
245 Thunderstruck
246 MotorSport
247 Uptown Funk
248 Bandit
249 Can’t Hold Us
250 Smells Like Teen Spirit
251 7 Years
252 Butter
253 INDUSTRY BABY
254 Thinkin Bout You
255 3 Headed Goat
256 Me Porto Bonito
257 Too Good
258 Feel It Still
259 Callaita
260 Stressed Out
261 Headlines
262 The A Team
263 Gold Digger
264 The Weekend
265 Shivers
266 Silence
267 BIRDS OF A FEATHER
268 See You Again (Wiz Khalifa)
269 Forever After All
270 LOYALTY.
271 Look What You Made Me Do
272 Roses (Imanbek Remix)
273 Mood Swings
274 Jimmy Cooks
275 Kaiju no Hanauta
276 Work Out
277 All of Me
278 Digits
279 Slide
280 RAPSTAR
281 Hold On, We’re Going Home
282 Be Alright
283 Ni**as in Paris
284 We Paid
285 Godzilla
286 Robbery
287 Hotel California
288 Peaches
289 You Make It Easy
290 High Fashion
291 IDOL (アイドル)
292 Empire State of Mind
293 Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)
294 Fake Love
295 Sign of the Times
296 The Middle
297 We Found Love
298 The Real Slim Shady
299 Beautiful Things
300 Espresso
301 Sweet Child O’ Mine
302 Cover Me Up
303 déjà vu (Olivia Rodrigo)
304 We Don’t Talk Anymore
305 Back in Blood
306 HEARTBREAK ANNIVERSARY
307 The Night We Met
308 Back In Black
309 Jungle
310 Dancing With A Stranger
311 Youngblood
312 A Bar Song (Tipsy)
313 Attention
314 Magnolia
315 Need To Know
316 Heaven
317 Locked Out of Heaven
318 FEFE
319 Look Alive
320 Wonderwall
321 Love Me
322 What Lovers Do
323 7 Summers
324 In the End
325 Super Gremlin
326 Neighbors
327 Money
328 Heartless (The Weeknd)
329 Stay (Zedd)
330 break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored
331 bury a friend
332 Sweet but Psycho
333 1-800-273-8255
334 Crew
335 Sucker
336 Close Friends
337 There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back
338 Let Me Love You
339 Mo Bamba
340 Body
341 Check
342 Leave The Door Open
343 Levitating
344 Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1
345 Halo
346 No Scrubs
347 Stay
348 Before You Go
349 Broken Clocks
350 Promiscuous
351 Baby Shark
352 Black Beatles
353 Money Longer
354 Drankin N Smokin
355 Pure Cocaine
356 Happier Than Ever
357 Counting Stars
358 idontwannabeyouanymore
359 Cheap Thrills
360 Till I Collapse
361 Another Love
362 LA CANCIÓN
363 Marigold
364 traitor
365 Heartless (Kanye West)
366 Whatever It Takes
367 Moscow Mule
368 Body Like a Back Road
369 Set Fire to the Rain
370 Mine
371 Payphone
372 No Limit
373 Way 2 Sexy
374 When We Were Young
375 I Had Some Help
376 God is a woman
377 Look At Me!
378 Something in the Orange
379 Lose Control
380 The Worst
381 Thinkin’ Bout Me
382 Love Me Like You Do
383 Stronger
384 Sold Out Dates
385 Teenage Fever
386 Nights
387 Faded
388 déjà vu (J. Cole)
389 Bad at Love
390 Titanium
391 Work from Home
392 Iris
393 Africa
394 Wake Me Up
395 Another One Bites the Dust
396 Candy Paint
397 Rain On Me
398 Erase Your Social
399 Chicago Freestyle
400 Juicy
401 Te Boté
402 Valuable Pain
403 A Sky Full of Stars
404 YOSEMITE
405 Numb
406 Diamonds
407 Mockingbird
408 All of the Lights
409 pick up the phone
410 Wake Up in the Sky
411 Galway Girl
412 Kevin’s Heart
413 Stitches
414 I Hate U
415
416 Somebody That I Used to Know
417 Toosie Slide
418 Girls Want Girls
419 F.N
420 Outside Today
421 I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)
422 Die With A Smile
423 Heartless
424 Poetic Justice
425 Baby
426 Bad Bad Bad
427 Praise The Lord (Da Shine) [feat. Skepta]
428 Subtitle
429 10,000 Hours
430 I Ain’t Worried
431 Hypnotize (2007 Remaster)
432 Dreams and Nightmares
433 Rich Flex
434 Ransom
435 Lose You To Love Me
436 Boo’d Up
437 Ivy
438 I Want It That Way
439 Calling My Spirit
440 Ao To Natsu
441 Talking to the Moon
442 Cold Water
443 Fast Car
444 Say So
445 STARGAZING
446 Slime Belief
447 Go Flex
448 Lean Wit Me
449 Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe
450 Taki Taki
451 Chandelier
452 It Ain’t Me
453 Let You Down
454 Beautiful People
455 First Day Out
456 Delicate
457 Summertime Sadness
458 changes
459 APT.
460 Rockabye
461 Tequila
462 For Free
463 The Less I Know the Better
464 Space Cadet
465 Astronaut In The Ocean
466 Pumped Up Kicks
467 Danza Kuduro
468 Sky Walker
469 Do I Wanna Know?
470 Moves Like Jagger
471 Hakujitsu
472 Ride It
473 Young, Wild & Free
474 Girls Need Love
475 Cash Shit
476 ROXANNE
477 cardigan
478 Lost
479 I Took a Pill in Ibiza (Seeb Remix)
480 On Me
481 See You Again (Tyler, the Creator)
482 Beer Never Broke My Heart
483 Hips Don’t Lie
484 Flashing Lights
485 The Chain
486 What Do You Mean?
487 September
488 Speechless
489 Blueberry Faygo
490 Pursuit of Happiness (Nightmare) [feat. MGMT & Ratatat]
491 You Was Right
492 Cake By the Ocean
493 Fuck Up Some Commas
494 bellyache
495 Me, Myself & I
496 Woman
497 Wolves
498 I’m Yours
499 Shoota
500 Fair Trade