- Nigerian Afrobeats artistes have consistently garnered monthly listeners on Spotify
- Ayra Starr, Rema tops the list with over 1 million monthly listeners
- TheRadar monitored Spotify streaming platform to rank the top 25
With streaming platforms, the medium for Afrobeats singers to earn and be recognised for their art keeps improving.
Nigerian Afrobeats artistes now enjoy a seamless distribution and accessibility of their songs across the world with no barriers like it used to be.
This makes it easier for them to gain International recognition and engage listeners with unique sounds and art to create cultural influences.
There are several streaming platforms where Nigerian Afrobeats singers drop their songs, spreading their wings and exporting Afrobeats to the world. These streaming service platforms include Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and YouTube Music.
Top 25 Nigerian Afrobeats singers with the highest monthly listeners
For this article, TheRadar focused on Spotify, an online music streaming service with millions of songs available.
Spotify has incredibly become a significant streaming and listening platform for singers and fans all over the world.
For clarity, Spotify monthly listeners refer to the unique listeners who have played tracks of these artistes in the last 28 days. This means that even if a unique listener plays the track/tracks more than once, the tracks are still recorded as one person. Instead, the number of times the track is played counts as streams.
Monitoring the streaming platform on August 1st, TheRadar ranked 25 Nigerian Afrobeats artistes with the most track number of over 1 million active and unique monthly listeners. See list below:
- Ayra Starr - 28.5 million
- Rema - 25.3 million
- Tems - 19.4 million
- Burna Boy - 16.8 million
- Omah Lay - 10.9 million
- Ckay - 9.2 million.
- Wizkid - 9.2 million
- Asake - 8.9 million
- Fireboy DML - 8.5 million
- Davido - 8.3 million
- Victony - 6.8 million
- Kizz Daniel - 5.1 million
- Olamide - 4.6 million
- BNXN - 4.6 million
- Adekunle Gold - 3 million
- Tiwa Savage - 2.5 million
- Qing Madi - 2.2 million
- Teckno - 2.1 million
- Fave - 1.8 million
- Chike - 1.6 million
- Mohbad - 1.6 million
- Naira Marley - 1.4 million
- Yemi Alade - 1. 2 million
- Simi - 1.2 million
- Runtown - 1.1 million
Global Impact List: Ayra Starr, Tems emerge as Spotify’s most streamed artistes
Earlier, TheRadar reported that Nigerian Afrobeats artistes, Tems and Ayra Starr emerged at the top of the Global Impact List unveiled by popular streaming platform Spotify for the first half of 2024.
Through their songs, these artistes were recognized by the streaming platform. According to Spotify, their songs have the most listeners from outside Nigeria between January 1 and June 30.
Ayra Starr secured the first and second spots with her songs Santa featuring Rauw Alexrandro and hit single Commas. On the other hand, Tems took third spot with Love Me Jeje.
