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Lately on twitter & other social platforms, the undying & endless comparison of Starboy CEO, Ayo Wizkid Balogun & Co-owner; HKN records, David Davido Adeleke has become a huge topic. Well, this issue is not as complicated as fans make it seem, especially on twitter.

To my mind, what makes a successful recording artist? This is being ignored by many – fans, critics and enthusiasts alike – while making this comparison. If I were to critique I will use the following yardsticks as parameters for rating a successful artist, same being awards, the fan base, the number of hit records etc.

So lets attempt to compare based on these…:
Awards
Wizzy (Wizkid) as he is fondly called by fans, has been in the industry for 13years now, Huge! that’s big 13 years of consistency and such feat is no walk in the park, and all through these years he has bagged in all a total of 16 awards which includes:
i) 1BET award.
ii) 3Headies awards.
iii) 3 NEA
iv) 1MOBO
v) 1Channel O MVA
vi) 1Ghana music
vii) 2City people
viii) 2Dynamix awards.
ix) 1Future award.
x) 1 4stye TV MVA award &
and also nominations from NMVA; World music awards; MTV Africa music awards; MTV Europe music awards which in total sums to 49… Awards and Nominations.

Currently, he is CEO of his own famed Starboy Entertainment & also signed to Empire Mates Entertainment, Akon’s Konvict Muzik & Disturbing London, home to Tinie Tempah & Jessie J.

O.B.O. (Davido) surprisingly has been in the industry for 3 years and to be honest he is already doing well for himself. The songwriter,singer & producer has 17awards to his name he has:
i) 1BET award
ii) 2MTV Africa music awards
iii) 1KORA award
iv) 1NMVA award
v) 2Dynamix awards
vi) 1City people people
vii) 1Channel O people
viii) 4NEA awards
ix) 3Headies awards
x) 1Ghana music award
& surprisingly he has only 25 nominations that is too impressive for an artist….

Fan Base
Now this is a very difficult part between both artists,they both have die hard fans ready to do anything no matter how crazy. You can hardly see any of them anywhere both Nigeria or any part of Africa even some major places in the world without them being mobbed hardly.
The two of them can drop a song whenever and the response will be too massive both on air & off air, but recently, I think Davido’s fan base keeps increasing daily like every song he drops is like fuel to his already buzzing flame but some argue the reason is because of Wizkid’s delay of his 2nd album. I don’t see how this even relates, the Star Boy CEO dropped two singles recently and they didn’t do well, also he announced his collaborations with Rihanna & Chris Brown which will be dropping in the album, hopefully the Wizzy we used to know will be resurrected .

Hit Singles
Again another difficult talking point, the Starboy CEO has mad crazy singles to his name, which includes: holla at your boy, tease me, Azonto, jaiye jaiye, don’t dull, pakurumo, dance for me, caro, on top your matter etc . These songs at their release, some with his debut album: Superstar, released in 2011, were all big hit songs,club bangers & gained terrific airplay with good videos to match, I must also confess Wizkid’s superstar album is one of the best albums from Nigeria in contemporary times, every track on the album was a hit, I mean every track, superb!

While Davido has song extremely good songs too, not just good songs but some were anthems in the streets & the media for a long time, from back when, dami duro, skelewu, gobe, all of you, ekuro, aye, gbon gbon & recently tchelete (good life) were all huge songs/big anthems undeniably, but truth is Wizkid’s Superstar album was better than Davido’s O.B.O. album but then, Davido’s dami duro is undeniably bigger than any track Wizkid ever made . But irrespective Wizkid paved the way for him (Davido) who paved the way for others now…

So Who is the better and bigger artist?

Wizkid anytime anyday.

davido 2humble wit biga hit in d market breakin downloadin n marketin recordz

pple sha,wizkid by far

Nawaa oo. See their heads like 'wizkid byfar' una dey craze? :-/ wizkid started bfor davido, bt davido is bigger than wizkid. Davido jare! Humble swt boi, unlike wizkid. His name describes him! 'kid' and he is rly a kid. Mtcheww :-D