Grammy winner, Ayo Balogun popularly known as Wizkid headlined the Livespot X Festival which was held in Lagos on Sunday.
The most-streamed Nigerian musician in the
world, Wizkid, professed his undying love for his day one Nigerian fans at the
concert.
In an emotional declaration, Wizkid stopped
his performance midway to make the uniqueness of this relationship very clear
to all fans present.
In his words “I don’t feel this way
anywhere else. What we have is very special”.
Wizkid has had a streak of wins in recent
times, especially with his ‘Made in Lagos’ album that recorded over 100 million
streams on Apple music.
The song ‘Essence’, featuring Tems, also
became the first Nigerian album to spend a year on Billboard World Album
charts.
The Afrobeats star, also expressed his
excitement as to the success of the song.
In his words, “How can a young small boy
from Ojuelegba, Surulere make a song with another girl from the same Lagos
Nigeria and that song goes all the way to sell one million copies in America?
“That same song also got nominated for a
Grammy award. That same song got on the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
“The gag of the story is the same person
that made that same song is one small boy from Ojuelegba.”
Wizkid has indeed come a long way from his
2011 breakthrough to becoming the most-streamed Nigerian musician in the world.
His album, Made In Lagos, has hit 1 billion
streams worldwide less than a year after its release.
On Apple Music, the album has 322 million
streams, 229 million on Spotify, and 227 million on YouTube.
It has also gained over 140 million streams
on Audiomack, over 40 million on Boomplay, and 20.1 million on Pandora.
Wizkid on the other hand has just won the
Best African Act at the 2021 MTV EMA Awards.
This comes days after Big Wiz had five
nominations at the 2021 BET Soul Train Awards and another Grammy nomination.
Wizkid wasn't alone on the night, a number
of stars also came on stage to support Starboy. They include Simi, Rema, LAX,
Bella Shmurda, Portable, Fireboy, Poco Lee and Olamide.
Nigerian-American rapper, Wale was one of
the guests spotted at Wizkid's show. The Washington native was seen having a
good time dancing to the songs of various artistes who performed on the night.
One of the major highlights of the night
was when Wizkid brought out his friend Olamide and they performed a number of
their songs together. After some time, Wizzy went down memory lane and he shared
just how far he and Olamide have come since the days they recorded their first
song together Omo to Shan.