Apple Music, by its practice, takes down songs from charts suspected of streaming manipulations. The streams are deducted before the song is allowed to return to the chart position which would have been bar any manipulation. Precedence suggests this might be the case with Wizkid’s ‘Dance’ which still had enough streams to retain the top spot. However, some have ascribed …

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In another milestone, Wizkid’s latest single has become the song with the highest opening day streams on Spotify Nigeria with 1.5 million streams. ‘Kese’ surpassed the previous record held by Wizkid’s single ‘Piece Of My Heart’ featuring Brent Faiyaz which garnered 1.016M. Wizkid also set the record for the most opening-day streams for an African artist on Spotify which restates …

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Early Life and Education Born in 2001 at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto, South Africa, Chidimma Adetshina has a diverse heritage: her father is Nigerian of Igbo descent, and her mother is Mozambican. This multicultural upbringing shaped her early years; she is also studying law in South Africa Career Adetshina initially gained recognition as a finalist in Miss …

The massive deduction has led to speculations of stream deduction and drinking from the chart which are the most common heavy penalties Apple Music applies on streaming manipulation. ‘Kese’, released 15, November 2024, has the second lead single on Wizkid’s upcoming album ‘Morayo’, has enjoyed immediate success on streaming platforms reaching NO. 1 on the Apple Music Nigeria Top 100 …