Wizkid keeps getting his wins this year.
Spotify have announced which song is their most played worldwide on the platform, and Wizkid is at the top of the pile.
Drake's One Dance, featuring Wizkid and Kyla, is now the most listened to track on the service, having accumulated 880 million streams worldwide since its premiere in April 2016.
One Dance, which was co-written and co-produced by Wizkid, overtakes Major Lazer's ‘Lean On’, which was the most streamed song globally on Spotify in 2015.
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There appears to be a new Wizkid-Drake collaboration coming up, and this time it will be a Wizkid project.
While everyone was busy lamenting the singer’s loss of his brand name ‘Starboy’ to The Weeknd, Wizkid has been gearing up for new music to be released, and this time, it features Drake.
Who would have thought? Or found a place in their wildest imagination where Drake and Wizkid collaborate three times within the space of a year? Not me, not you, not anyone!
within the space of a year? Not me, not you, not anyone!
Wiz and Drizzy first found middle ground to collaborate on ‘Ojuelegba’, a song off Wizkid’s sophomore studio album “Ayo (Joy)”. Drake had heard the song from UK Grime artiste Skepta, and jumped on it with a verse, which birthed an international remix. The pair worked again for what has been the biggest pop single of 2016, ‘One Dance’, a song which stayed 9 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Now it appears things are going to go full circle with a new collaboration coming in hot from Wizkid’s end of the divide.
Turns out while Wizkid and Drake worked on his 2016 “Views” album, the pair also recorded more music for each other’s projects, and Wizkid is gearing forward to end the year with one of those projects. If this finally sees the light of day, it makes Wizkid the first Nigerian artiste to have collaborated with the hottest US act thrice in one year (for all it is worth.)
