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Top 10 Nigerian songs on Spotify rack up 316M+ streams in May 2025, led by ‘Baby (Is it a crime)’ at 53.4M streams
  • Total Spotify streams for the top 10 Nigerian songs hit 316.4 million, signalling another milestone for Nigeria’s digital music dominance.
  • Rema’s ‘Baby (Is it a crime)’ topped the chart with 53.4M streams, standing well ahead of the next closest, ‘Laho’.
  • All 10 songs recorded over 316M streams combined, showing depth in audience engagement beyond just the top few hits.
  • Shallipopi entered twice with ‘Laho’ (48.1M) and ‘Laho II’ (18.6M), showing the success of follow-ups and fan loyalty to a sound.

Wizkid’s Morayo leads Spotify Nigeria’s first‑day album streams, with a record 12.12M streams
  • Wizkid's Morayo leads the pack with 12.12 million first-day streams—30% more than the runner-up, 5ive (9.29M).
  • The top three singles (Morayo, 5ive, Lungu Boy) together account for 27.29M streams, or 45% of the combined 46.75M total.
  • Streams fall nearly 50% between 3rd (5.88M) and 4th place (Timeless, 4.91M), highlighting a sharp mid-chart taper.
  • Even #10 (S2) amassed over 2M first-day spins, showing strong baseline engagement across diverse artists.

In 2024, Rema lost 14.4 million Spotify listeners, while Ayra Starr more than doubled her listeners, to lead in Nigeria as of December
  • Ayra Starr's Spotify listeners more than doubled in 2024, ending 2024 as the Nigerian artiste with the most monthly listeners on Spotify.
  • Rema recorded the highest peak in Spotify listeners among Nigerian artistes.
  • Rema lost 14.4 million listeners in the year.
  • Other artistes like Burna Boy, Tems, and Wizkid, also saw listener bases increase in 2024.


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