Ayo Balogun, the world-famous Nigerian Grammy-award winner, who is popularly known as Wizkid has stunned fans after showing love to Davido.
Wizkid, demonstrated his album title ‘More Love, Less Ego’ in his gesture towards colleague, David Adeleke, aka Davido who just released his new album, Timeless.
In a tweet on Friday, the Afrobeats star urged fans to listen to the album.
Y’all go listen to timeless by my brother @davido 🔥🔥🔥❤️🦅
— Wizkid (@wizkidayo) March 31, 2023
Superstar Nigerian singers, Wizkid and Tems have clinched the newly created Afrobeats Artist of the Year category at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards.
The ‘Essence’ crooners beat their compatriots Burna Boy, CKay, and Fireboy to clinch the award.
Tems also snagged a second award of the night at the ceremony which was held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Monday.
Her collaboration with Future and Drake, ‘Wait for U’ won the hip-hop song of the year category.
However, the biggest winner of the night was Taylor Swift who scooped six awards, including Song of the year for ‘Anti-Hero’.
British singer, Harry Styles won the Artist of the Year, while GloRilla tied Latto for the Best new hip-hop artist category.
Nigerian star, Rema who was nominated for the Best Music Video category with ‘Calm Down’ which featured Selena Gomez, lost to Korean group, BTS.
Tiwa Savage, fondly called African Bad girl hails her colleague, Wizkid after he was spotted vibing to her new song, Stamina.
About a week ago, Tiwa Savage released her collaboration with Mavin’s Ayra Starr and producer cum singer, Young Jonn.
Music lovers around the world seem to be having great fun with the song, and have tagged it “the collaboration we didn’t know we needed”.
However, fans received the shock of their lives when Wizkid is spotted jamming to the song in a club, and an even greater shock, when Tiwa reposts the video of her Insta-story, tagging Wizzy as the “Biggest”.
Many seem to think that the duo has beef for each other following their alleged relationship years ago.
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Divine Ikubor, the Nigerian singer, who is popularly known as Rema has continued making history.
The singer reacted after making history with the remix of his globally acclaimed smash hit song, ‘Calm Down’ which featured American singer, Selena Gomez.
He recorded a historical milestone with the song as it became the highest-charting African song on Billboard Hot 100, breaking Wizkid’s record.
Wizkid, formerly held the record for the highest-charting Nigerian song on the Billboard Hot 100 after his smash tune ‘Essence,’ which featured Tems and Canadian pop star Justin Bieber, peaked at No. 9 on the chart.
In the latest development, the official billboard chart Twitter account announced that the 22-year-old Jonzing / Mavin Records signee had broken Wizzy’s record in a chart for March 25th, 2023.
Rema’s “Calm Down”, ft. Selena Gomez, peaked at the No. 8 position, making it the highest-charting Nigerian song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart so far.
Reacting to the colossal feat which threw him into an emotional state, Rema stressed how hard he worked to get to this point while expressing gratitude to God and love to those who’ve always believed in him as well as to Gomez.
“Trying to hold in the tears, I know how hard I worked to get my sound here, I’m grateful to God for how far I’ve come. Love to the ones who believed & love to the Queen @selenagomez”, he tweeted.
Trying to hold in the tears, I know how hard I worked to get my sound here, I’m grateful to God for how far I’ve come. Love to the ones who believed & love to the Queen @selenagomez ✌🏾❤️ pic.twitter.com/yRqATHMjXf
— REMA (@heisrema) March 21, 2023
Raoul John Njeg-Njeng, the famous Nigerian singer, who is popularly known as Skales has talked about Wizkid.
He finally addressed his long-drawn-out beef with Afrobeats superstar, Wizkid.
Recall that in 2015, the two exchanged insults on the microblogging platform, Twitter.
It all began after one Twitter user inquired when Skales and Wizkid would release a single together during a question-and-answer session with fans and he replied that WizKid was too busy for him.
Skales explained in a recent interview with Echo Room that he had intended that as a joke but Wizkid had taken offense to it.
He disclosed that his friend had phoned to tell him that WizKid was insulting his father on Twitter as a result of what he had said.
According to Skales, the responses that came from his account at the time weren’t even from him, but rather from his girlfriend at the time.
He continued that he felt offended by the entire incident, but explained that WizKid might have been in a foul mood at the time.
Renowned Afrobeats musician, Wizkid has splashed millions of naira to acquire a new Rolls-Royce.
The ‘Bad to Me’ crooner added a brand new sleek Black Badge Rolls-Royce Cullinan to his rapidly growing fleet of cars.
News of the new purchase was broken by the auto dealer, Mayfair, who shared images of the new car and congratulated him.
The car dealer also shared a film of the car’s journey from the dealership to Machala’s house.
Reports online have it that the new ride of Wizkid supposedly cost a whooping 620 million naira.
Popular singer, Habeeb Okikiola better known by his stage name, Portable has slammed popular music producer, Rexxie and singer, Wizkid.
The disc jockey, Rexxie released a hit track in which he featured the Afrobeats start Wizkid and Portable who was unimpressed by it decides to mock them.
Portable mimicked the lyrics of their song which elicited laughter from his friends who were in the background listening.
He mocked Rexxie and Wizkid’s song and wondered why they can’t just pray instead, since they don’t know how to sing.
The Zazoo star advised them to pray for music prowess because they’re clearly not good enough.
Sensational Afrobeats star, Wizkid has announced the postponement of his ‘More Love Less Ego’ album tour.
The father of four took to his Twitter page to make the announcement, citing logistics challenges as reason.
He said that the tour has been moved to Fall and the new date would be communicated to fans.
Prior to the postponement, the American music tour was slated to start March 3 in Houston, Texas, United States.
A statement released by the ‘Joro’ singer ran thus:
“Due to unforeseen logistical circumstances the Wizkid – More Love, Less Ego Tour has been postponed to Fall 2023.
All tickets purchased for the originally scheduled shows will be honored on the new dates at the respective venues. Stay tuned for more information. Love, Wiz.”
Ace musician Ayo ‘Wizkid‘ Balogun rolls out more adorable photos of his second son with his baby mama, Jada Pollock.
The musician who is known for his taciturn personality took to his Instagram page to show an unusual gesture of paternal love.
He shared a cute photo of him and his new boy which exuded father-son bond, and another which captured him holding the baby steady to be captured by the camera.
Fans have gushed over the adorableness of the little boy who the remarked to have a striking resemblance with his father.
It would be recalled that the singer welcomed the child with his baby mama, Jada Pollock – who doubles as his manager – on 20th October, 2022.
A Nigerian lady is making headlines for getting the name of afrobeat singer Ayodeji Balogun, also known as Wizkid, tattooed on her chest.
Fans are known to go the extra mile when it comes to showing love to their favorite celebrities. Tattooing their names on their bodies is one of the many methods employed.
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As seen on social media, the lady shared a photo of her chest. On it is Wizkid’s full name, “Wizkid Ayodeji Balogun” boldly written.
Her action has set thousands of tongues wagging as many cannot help but wonder why she would do such.
Others have come to the conclusion that it is just her way of showing love to the singer.
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