Wizkid becomes first African to hit 8 million monthly listeners on Spotify

Afropop star, Ayodeji Balogun, aka Wizkid, has become the first African artiste to hit eight million listeners on Spotify’s monthly streams.

Spotify is an online, music streaming platform that pays royalties based on the number of artistes’ streams as a proportion of total songs streamed.

A few days after having only 6.9 million monthly listeners on Spotify, the Nigerian singer has soared in numbers to hit eight million monthly listeners on the platform.