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Mangaliso Kabulika
JAH Prayzah’s success is being reflected on Spotify where his music has clocked 11.4 million streams, attracted 164 813 monthly listeners and enjoyed 744 600 hours of playtime by people from diverse cultural backgrounds in 183 countries.
His ability to bring together different cultural sounds and create uplifting, timeless music has captured listeners globally, and his fan base continues to grow.
Spotify is a digital music, podcast and video service that gives listeners access to millions of songs, and other content, from creators all over the world.
It is available across a range of devices, including computers, phones, tablets, speakers, TVs, and cars.
Yesterday, Jah Prayzah used his social media platforms to thank all the fans who are supporting his music across the world.
Data collected this year has been released and it shows that Amapiano superstar, Kabza De Small, remains the most streamed South African artist for the second year in a row.
Kabza De Small has 1 806 277 monthly listeners.
Two of his projects, KOA II Part 1 and The Konka Mixtape: Sweet & Dust, rounded up the top five most streamed South African albums in that country.
The data showed that in South Africa, local users were now listening to more local songs this year than was the case last year.
Consumption grew by 101 percent this year.
Amapiano continued to dominate the charts with the most streamed songs coming out of the genre.
Five Nigerians also ranked high in Spotify’s most streamed artist in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Grammy-winning Nigerian musician, Burna Boy, was ranked the most streamed artist in Sub-Saharan Africa for the second time in a row.
Burna Boy has a staggering 17 086 461 monthly listeners.
Spotify also found that the Afrobeats genre has grown by 550 percent.
Rema’s “Calm Down” became the first Afrobeats artist-led track to surpass a billion streams on Spotify, capturing the attention of audiences in Mexico and India.
Spotify Wrapped 2023, is an annual data review of how people listened to music and podcasts on the platform.
The 2023 Spotify Wrapped showed Nigeria’s dominance in the music scene across the continent, with Asake, Davido and Omah Lay occupying a spot on the top ten list.
Top Four most streamed artists on Spotify in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2023:
Drake
Burna Boy
Asake
Davido — H-Metro Reporter/Daily Post/IOL.
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