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In 2023, Nigerian music had a great year with captivating music releases and viral dance challenges. Boomplay, Africa’s premier music streaming platform, released its yearly report, #BoomplayRecap2023, focusing on country, artist, and user insights. The platform saw an increase in its catalog to 120 million songs and over 10 million artists. The most popular genres on Boomplay included Afrobeats, Amapiano, Afrofusion, Gospel, Gengentone, and HipHop & Rap, with Burna Boy becoming the first artist to join the Platinum Club with 1 billion streams. The report also includes top male and female artists, top rising artists, most streamed songs, and albums. Boomplay is an African-focused music streaming service with over 90 million monthly active users and a global presence on mobile and web.
From the captivating music releases in the year accompanied with trending sounds and viral dance challenges to the continental and global exploits of Nigerian artists, 2023 has been another great year for Nigerian music.
As the year draws to its end, Africa’s premier music streaming and download platform, Boomplay, unveils its yearly report of music consumption on the platform that reflects music streaming data of local music scenes. Tagged #BoomplayRecap2023, the report is segmented into three to focus on country, artist and user insights of 2023.
The streaming platform recorded an increase in its catalog to 120 million songs with over 10 million plus artists and 7500 plus content providers in the year under review. The most popular music genres in 2023 on Boomplay include Afrobeats, Amapiano, Afrofusion, Gospel, Gengentone and HipHop & Rap. Remarkably, the year saw Burna Boy become the first artist to join Boomplay’s Platinum Club with 1 billion streams.
According to the Boomplay Recap 2023 for Nigeria released today, these are some of the categories of top artists and most streamed music of 2023:
Top Male Artist
- Asake
- Seyi Vibez
- Davido
Top Female Artist
- Ayra Starr
- Mercy Chinwo
- Tiwa Savage
Top Rising Artist
- Shallipopi
- ODUMODU BLVCK
- Spyro
Most Streamed Songs
- Soso – Omah Lay
- Cough (Odo) – Kizz Daniel
- Party No Dey Stop – Adekunle Gold ft. Zinoleesky
Most Streamed Albums
- Timeless – Davido
- Mr. Money With The Vibe – Asake
- Boy Alone – Omah Lay
View the complete Boomplay Recap 2023 for Nigeria and other countries list here.
Also, one can find Boomplay Recap 2023 lists for all key African countries on the Boomplay app including specially curated playlists of all categories, genres and artists. Boomplay Recap for Artists 2023 and your unique My Boomplay Recap 2023 (Recap for Users) coming soon.
