{"id":233006,"date":"2025-07-24T09:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/wizkid-becomes-first-african-artiste-to-hit-9-billion-streams-on-spotify\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:46:28","slug":"wizkid-becomes-first-african-artiste-to-hit-9-billion-streams-on-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wizkid-becomes-first-african-artiste-to-hit-9-billion-streams-on-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizkid becomes first African Artiste to hit 9 billion streams on Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wizkid becomes first African Artiste to hit 9 billion streams on Spotify<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Balogun, aka Wizkid, has surpassed 9 billion streams across all credits on Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the first African artist to hit this milestone on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Wizkid\u2019s most streamed song on the platform is his collaborative hit with Canadian powerhouse, Drake and British star Kyla, \u2018One Dance\u2019 with 3.7 billion streams.<\/p>\n<p>The song is among the top 10 most streamed songs of all time on Spotify. The song also holds the Guinness World Record for being the first single to surpass 1 billion streams on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Wizkid\u2019s most streamed lead single on Spotify is the Tems-assisted \u2018Essence\u2019 with over 303 million streams.<\/p>\n<p>American singer, Taylor Swift remains the most streamed artist on Spotify with over 1.5 billion 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 \/>Spotify, wizkid,<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/07\/24\/wizkid-becomes-first-african-artiste-to-hit-9-billion-streams-on-spotify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wizkid becomes first African Artiste to hit 9 billion streams on Spotify Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Balogun, aka Wizkid, has surpassed 9 billion streams across all credits on Spotify. He becomes the first African artist to hit this milestone on the platform. Wizkid\u2019s most streamed song on the platform is his collaborative hit with Canadian powerhouse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[3],"tags":[249,404],"class_list":["post-233006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-spotify","tag-wizkid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233006","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=233006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}