To commemorate Nigerian Independence Day, Apple Music has released the top Nigerian artistes and songs on the platform since its launch over 7 years ago.
Apple Music put out a list of the top Nigerian songs of all time in celebration of the forthcoming Independence Day and it’s a list of some of our favourite songs.
Putting out a list of records from top Nigerian songs of all time, to top albums, most Shazamed and top artistes under a campaign tagged “Oshe Naija”, Apple Music had paid cognisance to some of the biggest songs and artistes from the country.
For the category of Top Nigerian Artistes, Burna Boy had come first, followed by Wizkid then Davido with FireboyDML and Tems ringing it in for new-age acts on the fourth and fifth positions respectively.
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Under the category for Top Songs of All Time, Ckay’s Love Nwantiti led the pack, with Wizkid’s Tems-featured Essence coming second to precede Fireboy’s Peru, with Ye and Last Last by Buena Boy coming fourth and fifth.
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The Top Nigerian Albums of all time had been topped off by Wiskid’s Made In Lagos, then preceded by Burna Boy’s African Giant then Love Damini on the third position, Twice As Tall fourth and Tems’ For Broken Ears as the fifth top album
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For the Most Shazamed Nigerian Songs of All Time, Ckay‘s “Love Nwantiti” came first, follow by Rema‘s “Calm Down” and FireboyDML featuring Ed Sheeran‘s “Peru”
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The Nigerian music industry is currently one of the most recognized in the world, thanks to most of the artistes in these categories listed by Apple music.
Well, some may not agree with Apple music on this especially in the case of the Top Nigerian Artiste, but bare it mind that numbers don’t lie and all these were computed based on numbers.
