Popular Afrobeats superstar Ayodeji Balogun, a.k.a Wizkid, has made history by becoming the first African artiste to surpass 100 million Shazams. Shazam is a music recognition application that identifies songs by listening to short audio clips.
As soon as a user taps to “Shazam” a track, the app quickly matches the sound to its large music database, displaying the song’s title, artist and other relevant details.
Wizkid’s Shazam profile shows that his songs have accumulated 100 million Shazams across 185 charted tracks, spanning 1,230 cities in 68 nations.
The “Ojuelegba” crooner attained the feat in early November, shortly after he dropped a new three-track collaboration with DJ Tunez and DJ Maphorisa, which includes “Money Constant” and “Abangani.”
Since its release, “Money Constant” attained a #1 hit on Apple Music’s Top Songs Chart in Nigeria.
Before his latest collaboration, Wizkid released “Morayo” in 2024, giving him tremendous momentum heading into 2025.
The song has already garnered hundreds of millions of streams and spawned multiple radio hits.
Another recent project that preceded Ayodeji’s 100 million Shazams success is his collaboration with artists like Odumodublvck, Asake, and Fola, which included viral TikTok moments of these songs.
Since he debuted with the Superstar album in 2011, Wiz has released several successful albums, including “Ayo” (2014), “Sounds from the Other Side” (2017), “Made in Lagos” (2020), and “More Love, Less Ego” (2022).
His hit track “Essence”, featuring Tems, became the first Nigerian song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, earning him global recognition.
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