Wednesday, 14th September 2022 was a chaotic one for the music end of Nigerian Twitter as Nigerian artists, fans, and stakeholders disagree over the first artist to jump on the Amapiano sound. | Pulse Nigeria
Some of Nigeria’s biggest hits of 2021 like Reekado Banks's 'Ozumba Mbadiwe' Rema's 'Woman' Burna Boy's 'Yaba Buluku', Adekunle Gold's 'High' and Davido's 'Champions sound' were inspired by the Amapiano sound.
Teni’s “FOR YOU” featuring Davido becomes the first song to debut atop the chart and remain at No. 1 for a second week.
Plus Ajebo Hustlers’ “Pronto” featuring Omah Lay rises to No. 5 after debuting at No. 8 last week.
The Top 50 blends all-genre freemium streaming (Top Streaming Chart), radio airplay (Top Airplay Chart) and TV airplay (TV Top Songs Chart) in Nigeria. All charts will be dated and updated on Mondays, this week’s chart will be revealed on Monday, March 1, 2021.
“FOR YOU,” released under Dr. Dolor Entertainment, stays a second week atop the streaming chart with 1.46 million equivalent streams (down 37.6%), tallied 35.64 million radio airplay audience impression (up 10.48%) but slides 3-5 on radio chart and debuts at No. 17 on TV chart with 5.09 million in TV reach.
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Nigerian producers and artists have embraced the sound and are creating and releasing their own interpretations of amapiano and amapiano-inspired songs. Three out of the 17 bangers on Davido s latest album
A Better Time are amapiano-inspired. 21 Amapiano Songs By Artists From Outside South Africa To Stream Right Now
21 amapiano songs from Nigeria, the UK, Mozambique, Namibia, Kenya and Tanzania to stream right now.
By now, it s an open secret that amapiano is being produced outside of South Africa where it originates. Nigerian producers and artists, mostly, have embraced the sound and are creating and releasing their own interpretations of amapiano and amapiano-inspired songs.