Three years after it debuted, ‘Fall’ which was released as Davido’s second single from his second studio album ‘A Good Time’ (2019) is still sitting comfortably on the list of most streamed Nigerian songs in 2021.
Produced by Kiddominant, the song currently has 198 million views on YouTube.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, “Fall” was one of the top-100-most-Shazam-searched singles in America in January 2019, and was a top-10 record on Shazam in New York.
In February 2019, “Fall” became the longest charting Nigerian pop song in Billboard history.
With the emergence of online streaming applications like YouTube, Apple itunes and Spotify, among others, it is now easier to access Nigeria’s music industry from any part of the world.
However, with the Grammy win by Burna Boy and Wizkid, attention has turned to how well Nigerian artistes and their music ranks in terms of global acceptance.
Below are the most streamed Top 12 songs ever by any Nigerian music act:
- Fall by Davido – 198m views
- On the low by Burna Boy – 192m views
- Way maker by Sinach – 171m views
- Pana by Tecno – 151m views
- Aye by Burna Boy – 131m views
- Johnny by Yemi Alade – 129m views
- If by Davido – 125m views
- Afro B by Drogba – 124m views
- Mad Over You by Runtown – 119m views
- Do like that by Korede Bello – 114m views
- Personally by P-Square – 106m views
- Joro by Wizkid – 106m views
