{"id":231721,"date":"2025-07-03T05:51:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/ayra-starr-becomes-first-african-female-artist-to-hit-5m-followers-on-spotify\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T05:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:51:32","slug":"ayra-starr-becomes-first-african-female-artist-to-hit-5m-followers-on-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/ayra-starr-becomes-first-african-female-artist-to-hit-5m-followers-on-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayra Starr becomes first African female artist to hit 5m followers on Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ayra Starr becomes first African female artist to hit 5m followers on Spotify<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Ayra Starr becomes first African female artist to hit 5 million followers on Spotify<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian singer, Ayra Starr, has set a new African record on streaming giant, Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Rush\u2019 crooner recently surpassed 5 million followers on the platform, becoming the the first African female artist to hit the milestone.<\/p>\n<p>However, she still trails Tems on the list of most streamed African female artists on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>She has a total of 2.7 billion streams across all credits while Tems has 3.8 billion streams.<br \/>Ayra Starr\u2019s most streamed song on Spotify is \u201cSanta\u201d, with over 707,987,442 million streams. Her most streamed lead single on the platform is \u201cRush\u201d, with over 474 million streams.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>Ayra Starr, Spotify,<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/07\/02\/ayra-starr-becomes-first-african-female-artist-to-hit-5m-followers-on-spotify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayra Starr becomes first African female artist to hit 5m followers on Spotify Ayra Starr becomes first African female artist to hit 5 million followers on Spotify Nigerian singer, Ayra Starr, has set a new African record on streaming giant, Spotify. The \u2018Rush\u2019 crooner recently surpassed 5 million followers on the platform, becoming the the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[248,249],"class_list":["post-231721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ayra-starr","tag-spotify"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}