Wizkid’s
On August 6, 2021, Nigerian superstar, Wizkid’s smash hit, ‘Essence’ hit one million uses on Shazam.
The song, which currently sits pretty at No. 59 on the Billboard Hot 100, accumulated one million searches via the Apple-owned Shazam. In 2020, Master KG‘s ‘Jerusalema’ became the most Shazamed song in the world.
On July 31, 2021, ‘Essence’ also cracked the US iTunes top 50 chart.
A few weeks ago, the song cracked the top 50, which heralded it rise into the Billboard Hot 100. In 2020, Mr. Eazi‘s ‘Oh My God’ featuring Nicki Minaj topped the US iTunes chart within 24 hours of release.
On July 30, 2021, the song also rose to No. 67 on the Billboard Hot 100.
On July 20, 2021, the song rose to No. 72. This comes after the song which features another Nigerian singer, Tems, cracked the Billboard Bubbling Under Charts for the first time.
This marks a remarkable achievement for Wizkid and Tems, who are signed to the same label and for African music as a whole.
However, this isn’t Wizkid’s first time on the Hot 100 chart.
He got into the chart via his features on Drake’s ‘One Dance’ which hit No. 1 in 2016 and Beyonce’s ‘Brown Skin Girl’ which peaked at #76 in 2019.
-Pulseng