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Dai Dai by Shakira & Burna Boy is now the highest peaked World Cup song on Spotify Global chart history

#1 ~ Dai Dai
#2 ~ Dreamers
#49 ~ Waka Waka
#71 ~ Live It Up

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Shakira & Burna Boy “Dai Dai” peaks #1 on the Spotify Global Daily Top songs chart with 4.21 MILLION streams.

This is Burna Boy's first #1 on the chart.

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Burna Boy sets a new record as the African artist with the highest spotify monthly listeners 46.8 million by se

He broke and surpassed Tyla's record of 46.6 million monthly listeners.

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For the first time the world cup song by Shakira x Burna Boy peaks #2 on the global spotify chart

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Burna Boy & Shakira "Dai Dai" debuts #93 on Vietnam hot 100 chart

Burna is the only African artist to appear on the billboard Vietnam hot 100 chart. 🇳🇬🇻🇳

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Asake has surpassed @davido to become the 5th most streamed Nigerian artist on Spotify across all credits with 3.87 billion spotify streams.

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"Man on a Mission" new single by Chris Brown & Wizkid debuts at #1 on the New Zealand Hot 40 Singles chart. 🇳🇿

It's their highest-charting collaboration, surpassing "Call Me Every Day."

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Shakira x Burna Boy’s “Dai Dai” has surpassed 100M streams on Spotify in 42 days

It is Shakira’s 58th song and Burna Boy’s 21st song to hit this milestone

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Burna Boy is now among the African musicians with the biggest monthly audience peak on YouTube Music, having achieved 400 million monthly listeners;

1. Tyla (607M)
2. Moliy (602M)
3. Rema – 471M
4. Burna Boy – 420M

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Shakira ft Burna boy “Dai Dai” rises to a new peak of #5 (+1) on the Global Spotify chart with 4,301,927 streams

This is Burna Boy's first time in the top 5 of the global spotify chart.

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Tyla, Future, Rema, Lisa and Anitta perform at the US world cup opening ceremony

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Shakira and Burna Boy performance of "Dai Dai" in Mexico for the world cup

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Rema has surpassed 6 billion Spotify streams across all credits

He's the third Nigerian artist to surpass this milestone.

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Dave “Raindance ft Tems” moves two spots upwards to the top 5 on Global Spotify for the first time with 4.06 million streams.

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Top 10 African Artists' Highest Spotify Monthly Listeners Peak

1. Tyla ~ 46.6 million

2. Tems ~ 40.7 million

3. Rema ~ 40M

4. CKay ~ 34M

5. Ayra Starr ~ 32.2M

6. Burna Boy ~ 25.48M

7. Moliy ~ 25.46M

8. Libianca ~ 21.8M

9. Wizkid ~ 16.1M

10. Amaarae ~ 13M

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Ayra Starr wins the Mobo awards for "Best International Act" for the second year in a row
Beating Tyla, Vybz Kartel, Gunna, Kehlani and Moliy to win Award

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Wizkid wins the award for "Best African Act" at the 2026 #Moboawards

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Tems Spotify monthly listeners reach an all time high of 40.3 million monthly listeners, breaking the Nigerian artist all-time record for highest peak monthly listeners held by Rema 40.01M

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Tems 10.60 million surpasses Tyla 's 9.7 million for the record of the biggest streaming day on Spotify for a female African artist.

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Davr “Raindance” feat. Tems debuts #89 on Billboard Hot 100

It's Dave's 1st entry on the chart.