CSTRR:

Can you compare the internet penetration in America and Europe with Africa?

How many Nigerians or Africans stream on YouTube?

Sinach is popular as any global gospel musician in the world, and waymaker was sang in every corner of the world with different versions here and there.

Yet it did not get to 200 million views.

The problem is not the artist or the quality of the music.

Their primary market which is Africa, does not have a deep internet penetration.

Compare that to Hillsong of Australia.

Any average song from Hillsong gets to 200 million in a month or so.

Oga keep quiet about your stupid internet penetration excuse.

If your Naija artistes are know worldwide, then the countries with high internet will view their videos.

If Naija's internet penetration rate affects your views, that means you are not global. You are national.

Eke40seven:
YouTube is one of the primary ways people outside the shores of Nigeria connect to Nigerian music videos. It is also an indication of how big a song is accepted or known internationally. As we come to the end of the year, we will examine the Top 10 most viewed Nigerian Music videos on YouTube.
Three (3) crooners, Burna Boy, Davido and Ckay, dominate the list with two songs each. The list also features gospel music by Sinach. Based on the total accumulation of views for a particular song from all channels with copyrights, Ckay's Love Nwantiti will be Number 1 with about a billion views but we base this assessment on one video (track) alone.

These Nigerian songs are currently in the top 10 list of all time as of 31st of December 2021.

1. Burna Boy - On The Low [242 million] Publ on Nov 16, 2018

2. Davido - Fall [227 million views] Publ on Jun 2, 2017

3 Sinach - Way Maker [189 million] Publ on Dec 31, 2015

4. Ckay ft Joeboy & Kuami Eugene - Love Nwantiti [174 million] Publ on Feb 14, 2020

5. Burna Boy - Ye [171 million] Publ on Aug 6, 2018

6. Tekno - Pana [170 million] Publ on Aug 22, 2016

7. Wizkid - Joro [168 million] Publ on Sep 30, 2019

8. Ckay - Love Nwantiti (Acoustic) [144 million] Publ on March 10, 2020

9. Davido - If [142 million] Publ on Feb 17, 2017

10. Yemi Alade - Johnny [140 million] Publ on Mar 3, 2014

*Compiled on December 31st, 2021.

Nice!

U don see davido champion sound video? Na incredible nonsense da video be. Davido nor just try at all. "farawayyyy now"

KelvinCoaster:
This is not news!

How did this make FP?

NL is quickly loosing steam!

Charts and views are not constant. Many people are seeing some of these for the first time.

BuyAndSellStuff:


Oga keep quiet about your stupid internet penetration excuse.

If your Naija artistes are know worldwide, then the countries with high internet will view their videos.

If Naija's internet penetration rate affects your views, that means you are not global. You are national.

Brother, I think your understanding of these is very limited. Nigerians do not make up 1% of those streams you are looking at. Many African countries do not even have a song with over 50 million views.

Again, Americans, Europeans and Asians use a lot od streaming channels, the internet is cheap, filesharig is rare and free downloads are not as patronised as in Africa. Most of their musicians have international record distributuíons, international star powers, language, funding, talent, the strong tradition behind them.

These numbers are incredible under the conditions Nigerian musicians are subject to... In fact, you actually need to move to Europe, Asia and America to understand how big Nigerian music is right now.

This is a gradual process. There was a time when the highest streamed Nigerian song was Psquare songs at 50 million and that was even incredible.

I know we are very critical or even condescending towards our own thing...but you see that Music? that is one of the positive things about Nigerians especially when you go abroad. In gyms, shopping malls, everywhere.

BuyAndSellStuff:


You are the one without sense here and you are even strengthening my point with your foolishness.


I'm talking about Naija artistes being small globally. If they are well-known abroad as they claim, why aren't the foreigners viewing their videos like they do to their Biebers, Sheerans and co??

Those “Biebers, Sheerans and co” are also well-known here.
Has that made Nigerians listen to them more than our own artists?
Does their music top the charts in Nigeria?

Anyone who thinks for a few seconds will understand that people will still have a natural inclination to music from their own region even if they value that of other regions.

DrayZee:

Na so. Once a Nigerian achieves something, it becomes rubbish.
200 million views is now too small. They won Grammy, it also became rubbish.
Did any of them claim to be the greatest artist in the world?

Out of 1.2 billion Africans plus other countries you're getting 242 million views in a year,that's below average. Arianna Granade will get that in less than a week and he claims to be bigger than her

DrayZee:


Those “Biebers, Sheerans and co” are also well-known here.
Has that made Nigerians listen to them more than our own artists?
Does their music top the charts in Nigeria?

Anyone who thinks for a few seconds will understand that people will still have a natural inclination to music from their own region even if they value that of other regions.

All you are still telling us is that your artistes are local champions and not global.

Eke40seven:

Charts and views are not constant. Many people are seeing some of these for the first time.


Brother, I think your understanding of these is very limited. Nigerians do not make up 1% of those streams you are looking at. Many African countries do not even have a song with over 50 million views.

Again, Americans, Europeans and Asians use a lot od streaming channels, the internet is cheap, filesharig is rare and free downloads are not as patronised as in Africa. Most of their musicians have international record distributuíons, international star powers, language, funding, talent, the strong tradition behind them.

These numbers are incredible under the conditions Nigerian musicians are subject to... In fact, you actually need to move to Europe, Asia and America to understand how big Nigerian music is right now.

This is a gradual process. There was a time when the highest streamed Nigerian song was Psquare songs at 50 million and that was even incredible.

I know we are very critical or even condescending towards our own thing...but you see that Music? that is one of the positive things about Nigerians especially when you go abroad. In gyms, shopping malls, everywhere.

All you've just explained here is that Naija artistes are not as known abroad as they claim. If they were, those billions of people watching Bieber will watch theirs too. This has nothing to do with internet penetration.


You really have a low IQ.

BuyAndSellStuff:


All you are still telling us is that your artistes are local champions and not global.

Okay...they are local champions.
It's Nigerians who gave them those views.

kendrick93:
Where's Runtown Mad over you?
Baddest naija jam ever

Ckay, knocked it off the charts. However, it was very close to the Top 10. It is actually No 11 after Yemi Alade. Then Psquare's "Reason with me" and Korede Bello's "Like that"

DrayZee:

Okay...they are local champions.
It's Nigerians who gave them those views.

Of course, who else?
See dis one oo

BuyAndSellStuff:


Oga keep quiet about your stupid internet penetration excuse.

If your Naija artistes are know worldwide, then the countries with high internet will view their videos.

If Naija's internet penetration rate affects your views, that means you are not global. You are national.

Clown.

The biggest viewers of Ed Sheeran are in the United Kingdom.

His fame is a product of British influence and by extension, western Bloc of nations, which happens to be the most industrialised nations.

Burna boy is a Grammy winner. That is as global as they come.

If he was from the UK, he would be pulling billions in streams.

A man that sings in Yoruba like burna boy certainly is not counting on the UK as his first target market.

The fact that they are even known to this extent is a product of their hard-work and marketing.

Ed Sheeran did not need to put in as much effort to become a global star.

With talent, his nationality will do the rest of the work for him.

Faller:
That CKay Love Nwantiti, I don tire for that song...Na every year the song dey blow.....The song might still blow next year

I'm most impressed by CKay on that list

Love Nwantiti Acoustic 142 Million

Love Nwantiti Remix 174 million

I'm expecting Love Nwantiti Worship 123 million

No be beans



Make I burst your brain It's actually a 2019 Song

Honest to God. Don't know the guy and I have never heard of this love song

Sinach was invited by John Osteen to minister waymaker at Lakewood church in Texas.

That is the biggest church in America.

You can't get higher than that.

tarantino1:
I doubt if Burna Boy fit outdo e 2018 version again.

His career was on steroids back then

He doesn't even need to break that record , cos as at today he is the most sort after of all Afrobeats artistes out there. That guy is booked all year since 2018 to August 2022. Most of which in arenas and Stadias that's btwn 7k-20+ capacities.

BuyAndSellStuff:


All you've just explained here is that Naija artistes are not as known abroad as they claim. If they were, those billions of people watching Bieber will watch theirs too. This has nothing to do with internet penetration.


You really have a low IQ.

Can you name how many musician in the world, have 1 billion view everytime they release a song? And how many songs do they have that crossed this numbers? When were they released? Do you know Kanye West do not have a single song above 700 million?

Beyonce's only song above a billion is "Hallo"
Jay-Z, do not have a song above 1 billion.
Kendrick Lamar do not have a billion views
Jay Cole do not have a billion view
Dababy, Popsmoke, Usher, Lil Nas X, Lil Wayne do not have a track with a billion views
Even Chris Brown that was hot for years only got one song that just crossed 1 billion.
Afrobeat or Nigerian music is a genre with a growing but, limited loyal listenership.

Afrobeat is not Pop Rap, Pop, Alternative pop Rock, Latino Pop or blues where the likes of Adele, Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, Dua Lipa, Shakira, Pitbull etc dominate or people with white cult or decade of international followership like Eminem and Drake.

Eke40seven:

Can you name how many musician in the world, have 1 billion view everytime they release a song? And how many songs do they have that crossed this numbers? When were they released? Do you know Kanye West do not have a single song above 700 million?

Beyonce's only song above a billion is "Hallo"
Jay-Z, do not have a song above 1 billion.
Kendrick Lamar do not have a billion views
Jay Cole do not have a billion view
Dababy, Popsmoke, Usher, Lil Nas X, Lil Wayne do not have a track with a billion views
Even Chris Brown that was hot for years only got one song that just crossed 1 billion.
Afrobeat or Nigerian music is a genre with a growing but, limited loyal listenership.

Afrobeat is not Pop Rap, Pop, Alternative pop Rock, Latino Pop or blues where the likes of Adele, Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, Dua Lipa, Shakira, Pitbull etc dominate or people with white cult or decade of international followership like Eminem and Drake.

All these artistes are well above 200m.
You claim to be global yet your highest is 200m and that's even a one-off. Your average is around 10m.
Rubbish.

CSTRR:

Clown.

The biggest viewers of Ed Sheeran are in the United Kingdom.

His fame is a product of British influence and by extension, western Bloc of nations, which happens to be the most industrialised nations.

Burna boy is a Grammy winner. That is as global as they come.

If he was from the UK, he would be pulling billions in streams.

A man that sings in Yoruba like burna boy certainly is not counting on the UK as his first target market.

The fact that they are even known to this extent is a product of their hard-work and marketing.

Ed Sheeran did not need to put in as much effort to become a global star.

With talent, his nationality will do the rest of the work for him.

If your artistes are global, shouldn't the same UK billion viewers for Ed Sheeran give them same billion views?

If they didn't, that simply means he is unknown to them and not global.

Abagworo:
Ckay will be number 1 by end of February 2022. Goya Menor and Fireboy DML are coming with a bang too

Ckay should have been No 1 by now, but him and his management are not policing the illegal and legal publishing of his tracks well.... There are just too many uploads of his song. There are more than 5 with 40 million views already.
Maybe it is strategic or the kind of publishing or copyright agreement they made for the track.
However, YouTube music did gross the total views from youtube music and it has garnered about 1 billion streams.

BuyAndSellStuff:
Lol 200m views is the highest
If Naija artistes are as big as they claim to be, why are their video views so low

Compare these figures to the billions for Drake, Ed Sheeran, Bieber etc. Naija artistes are small boys abeg. Small hug or chat from any foreign celeb they hype it like anything. Beggars.

A poster above you had explained in details why it is o. I personally don't even go to YouTube to watch the video. I watch them on music channels. I download from Not just okay .

Ok

BuyAndSellStuff:


If your artistes are global, shouldn't the same UK billion viewers for Ed Sheeran give them same billion views?

If they didn't, that simply means he is unknown to them and not global.

Which country do you come from?

Our artistes are global.
They are winning global awards, getting global recognitions, doing collaborations with other global artistes like it is nothing.

What does your own country artists do?

What the likes of Ed Sheeran, and co enjoys due to nationality, Nigerian artists enjoy same to a certain level.

In Africa, Nigerian artists just need to be talented, with little effort, and the Nigerian advantage will do the rest.

It's frustrating to many african countries with equally talented artistes, doing even more work but failing to hit the fame.

Fireboy that started yesterday, is more popular than any artiste from Ghana

That kind of thing will always bring bad belle from them.

Arya Starr that started yesterday is pulling Numbers that very female artistes outside Nigeria can pull.

Tems is already out of sight of any other competition on the continent.

That is an advantage.

It's the same advantage at a higher level that UK and American artistes enjoy and why they pull billions of streams.

Eddysilver:
U don see davido champion sound video? Na incredible nonsense da video be. Davido nor just try at all. "farawayyyy now"

That champion sound video is actually a great video. Watch it without sentiment

lamdbull 2022 will be the year of your breakthrough, I pray you will top this list ,believe.

Ekez:
Mehn ckay shock me ohh

The guy is doing really well.

CSTRR:
Arya Starr that started yesterday is pulling Numbers that very female artistes outside Nigeria can pull.

Tems is already out of sight of any other competition on the continent.

That is an advantage.

It's the same advantage at a higher level that UK and American artistes enjoy and why they pull billions of streams.

There are even other upcoming females with less known labels or push like Guchi (who have utilised the power of social media to garner crazy views) and Fave who got a great. The Salle girl too got mad vocals. I hope her original songs will be as hot.

Breezzy:
lamdbull 2022 will be the year of your breakthrough, I pray you will top this list ,believe.

Thanks alot man

lamdbull:

Thanks alot man

You're welcome, but don't forget me ooo when you begin dey compete with Wizkid, Davido and Burna boy

Nor be FC Dey make noise now see their artist.

Burna always stating fact saying he is the beat in Africa is normal. But Wizkid fans do campe him with global artist that internationa artist Dey beg Wizkid self for featuring lol

Now it clear Wizkid fans don’t know anything.