Wizkid

Wizkid won a Grammy in 2021 for Best Music Video (Brown Skin Girl with Beyoncé), and he was the first Nigerian artist to sell out the O2 Arena in London—twice, each with 20,000 attendees. His 2016 collaboration “One Dance” with Drake spent 15 weeks at #1 globally, a record that outperforms #3 Burna Boy’s highest charting single by 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. That track accumulated over 1 billion streams on Spotify, cementing Afrobeats as a mainstream international genre. Wizkid’s 2020 album "Made in Lagos" spawned the hit "Essence," which peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, a 40% higher chart position than the average Nigerian artist ever achieves. His sustained appeal is evident: he sold out the O2 Arena 3 months faster than any other Nigerian musician in history.