Davido

Davido crossed 10 billion streams across platforms, a number that puts him among the most-streamed African artists there's ever been, and it started with 'Dami Duro' back in 2011 — a debut hit that's easy to forget was over a decade ago now. 'Fall' and 'If' each cleared 300 million YouTube views on their own, the kind of numbers that don't need an American feature to justify them, though he's collaborated with international names like Chris Brown along the way too. What he actually did for Afrobeats was less about any one song and more about proving the genre could sustain a decade-long career at global scale, not just a viral moment.