January 2, 20224 yr Author The unexpected comeback of Willow (Smith) to the chart but took off a little too late in the year to make the cut 2dTMIH5gCHg
January 2, 20224 yr One of the most pleasantly surprising top 10 hits of the year! Not heard the live version before, the studio version is perfectly good for me, but both versions are fab.
January 2, 20224 yr Author One of the year's big EDM scene hits which eventually made its way into the UK top 20 too :heart: MveDLwDIZiI (I do prefer the original but this remix was great to see be a smash!)
January 2, 20224 yr Author Another Anne-Marie song by request, a bit of an underperformance for Nathan Dawe but it did spend a few weeks in the top 40 jweXZ7tlfMU
January 2, 20224 yr 100 Rag'n'Bone Man and P!nk Anywhere Away From Here 2nd single from Life By Misadventure Released: 9th April 2021 Label: Sony Music Entertainment UK Chart Statistics NE (22/04/2021) | 32-51-32-31-9-9-11-14-20-62-70-78-x RE (22/07/2021) | 95-x Sales: 300k+ Certification: Silver 01 Sales 23 Audio Streaming 12 Video Streaming Video KolxHYDgQcU Biography Rag'n'Bone Man As a bearded bloke with a great big voice trading under the unabashedly old-fashioned name of Rag’n’Bone Man, Rory Graham shattered the mould for music stars who broke out of in the 2010s. Then again, he was bound to break something given the power that pours out of him on “Human”, his debut single in 2016. The fusion of blues and hip-hop established the singer/songwriter—born in 1985 in the town of Uckfield—as one of the decade’s most unique new arrivals. It’s also an arresting showcase for the booming baritone that Graham himself was surprised to discover when he tried singing a Muddy Waters song at an open mic in the mid-2000s. Until then, he’d spent his teenage years rapping for hip-hop and drum ‘n’ bass crews in his hometown. His take on vintage blues—as well as soul and funk, two words he has tattooed on knuckles—still reflects his love of the more modern sounds and sensibilities provided by collaborators like producer Two Inch Punch a.k.a. Ben Ash on Rag’n’Bone’s 2017 debut album Human. With “Giant”—a 2019 match-up with Calvin Harris—Graham got another chance to show how his old-school gusto and soulful delivery can heighten a song’s intensity without overwhelming it or blunting its pop appeal. Even with all of Graham’s potential force, he knows the value of restraint, too. - Apple Music P!nk From the start, P!nk made it her business to be different: “Tired of being compared to damn Britney Spears,” she sang on 2001’s “Don’t Let Me Get Me". “She’s so pretty/That just ain’t me.” Even as she rose in fame, she retained the whiff of an outsider—someone too frank, too unapologetic, too real for the show: not an icon, but a human being. As a girl, P!nk (born Alecia Beth Moore in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, in 1979) loved Madonna and Janis Joplin, and tried her hand at opera, show tunes and punk rock. She started performing in clubs as a teenager, taking her name from Steve Buscemi’s "Mr. Pink” character in the Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs: quippy, edgy, ready for trouble. After the demise of her first group, Choice, which was briefly signed to LaFace Records, P!nk released her 2000 debut, Can’t Take Me Home, co-writing more than half the album’s tracks. A year later, she released M!ssundaztood, a leap forward both artistically and commercially, bridging the immediacy of club pop with songs that were confessional, genuine, frustrated and raw (“Family Portrait”, “Just Like a Pill”). That style paved the way for artists like Halsey, Kesha and just about every other major female pop star in her wake. While her attitude was central to her appeal—whether she was tilting towards rock on 2003’s Try This or tipping back to dance on 2006’s I’m Not Dead—what really set her apart was her versatility: It was hard to imagine another singer capable of tackling something as bitterly sarcastic as “I Got Money Now” (“You don’t have to like me anymore/I’ve got money now”) and then shifting, with total credibility, to “Dear Mr. President” or “Who Knew”—who could be a punk one minute and an embracing, almost maternal comfort the next. She also set new standards as a live act, incorporating aerial dance and acrobatics into her extravagant stage shows. (Check out her performance of “Sober” at the 2009 VMAs for proof.) In 2012, The Truth About Love marked another career high, tackling marriage, parenthood and the heft of Real Adult Emotions with a frankness that was funny, touching and refreshingly unsentimental (“It’s whispered by the angels’ lips,” she sang on the title track, “and it can turn you into a son of a bitch”). Speaking to Beats 1 host Zane Lowe about 2019’s Hurts 2B Human, she described the album’s title track in classic P!nk fashion—welcoming, human, but with an edge: “Everybody is going through something. And the point is, it’s all about your village, it’s all about your people, and the circle you create around you to get through all the bullshit in this world.” - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History Rag'n'Bone Man 2016 02 Human -1- MILLIONAIRE 2017 13 Skin -2- MILLIONAIRE 2018 83 Grace (We All Try) -3- 2018 55 Run (Bugzy Malone feat. Rag'n'Bone Man) 2018 79 Photographs (Professor Green & Rag'n'Bone Man) 2019 02 Giant (Calvin Harris & Rag'n'Bone Man) MILLIONAIRE 2021 29 All You Ever Wanted -1- 2021 09 Anywhere Away From Here (Rag'n'Bone Man & P!nk) -2- 0 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 3 x Top 10 | 4 x Top 20 | 5 x Top 40 | 8 x Top 100 P!nk 2000 06 There You Go -1- 2000 05 Most Girls -2- 2001 09 You Make Me Sick -3- 2001 01 Lady Marmalade (Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa & P!nk) -OST- MILLIONAIRE 2002 02 Get The Party Started -1- 2002 06 Don't Let Me Get Me -2- 2002 01 Just Like A Pill -3- 2002 11 Family Portrait -4- 2003 03 Feel Good Time (feat. William Orbit) -OST/1- 2003 07 Trouble -2- 2004 11 God Is A DJ -3- 2004 21 Last To Know -4- 2006 04 Stupid Girls -1- 2006 05 Who Knew -2- 2006 10 U + Ur Hand -3- 2006 27 Nobody Knows -4- 2007 34 Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) -5- 2008 01 So What -1- MILLIONAIRE 2009 09 Sober -2- 2009 12 Please Don't Leave Me -3- 2009 29 Funhouse -4- 2009 62 I Don't Believe You -5- 2010 82 Won't Back Down (Eminem feat. P!nk) 2010 13 Raise Your Glass -1- 2010 10 F**kin' Perfect -2- 2012 03 Blow Me (One Last Kiss) -1- 2012 08 Try -2- 2013 02 Just Give Me A Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) -3- MILLIONAIRE 2013 16 True Love (feat. Lily Allen) -4- 2016 19 Just Like Fire -OST- 2017 47 Waterfall (Stargate feat. P!nk & Sia) 2017 03 What About Us -1- MILLIONAIRE 2017 25 Beautiful Trauma -2- 2017 33 Revenge (feat. Eminem) -AT- 2018 11 A Million Dreams -OST- 2019 08 Walk Me Home -1- 2019 61 Hurts 2B Human (feat. Khalid) -3- 2019 88 Can We Pretend (feat. Cash Cash) -2- 2020 40 One Too Many (Keith Urban & P!nk) 2021 52 Cover Me In Sunshine (P!nk & Willow Sage Hart) -1- 2021 09 Anywhere Away From Here (Rag'n'Bone Man & P!nk) 2021 39 All I Know So Far -2- 3 x #1 | 11 x Top 5 | 21 x Top 10 | 28 x Top 20 | 36 x Top 40 | 42 x Top 100 Social Media Rag'n'Bone Man P!nk http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/uploads/group_images/of_44.jpg
January 2, 20224 yr Author Meh at this, I'm surprised it even landed here at #100 as it seemed to come and go very quickly. All You Ever Wanted should've been in its place. This is just a bit boring.
January 2, 20224 yr This was a lovely surprise reaching the top 10 though I do think both artists are capable of better!
January 2, 20224 yr I quite liked Anywhere Away From Here - I know it wasn’t well received here and had the ignominy of being #10 on the reshuffle chart.
January 2, 20224 yr Author also general disclaimer that this isn't the FINAL FINAL EOY, it excludes the most recent week of sales so the OCC's version will be ever so slightly different.
January 2, 20224 yr 99 Pop Smoke What You Know Bout Love 4th single from Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon Released: 3rd July 2020 Label: Victor Victor Worldwide Chart Statistics NE (01/10/2020) | [27-14-9-7-4-7-5-7-9-29-49-57-65-93-81]-36-40-45-51-53-55-61-62-64-78-90-94-x Sales: 600k+ Certification: Platinum 46 Sales 05 Audio Streaming 28 Video Streaming Video uuodbSVO3z0 Biography When his life was cut short in the early hours of February 19, 2020, Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke was, at the age of 20, more famous than he’d ever been, yet nowhere close to where he was likely to end up. He exploded onto the scene in 2019 with “Welcome to the Party,” a song that somehow plays as enticing as it is menacing, exemplifying Brooklyn’s rising drill music scene at its sharpest. His voice across it—gruff and road-worn beyond his age—carries the delivery of a supervillain, daring his adversaries to try and stop the mayhem he has planned for the city. Pop Smoke was from the far-flung Canarsie neighborhood, and his verses radiate a singular kind of Real Brooklyn energy. (A great deal of his "Welcome to the Party” video takes place in front of the long-standing jerk chicken staple Peppa’s.) His slang (“sturdy,” “dap me up”) was largely New York City-centric, which helped songs like “War,” “Christopher Walking,” and “Dior” reverberate quickly through, and beyond, the five boroughs. Fans worldwide got indoctrinated upon accepting his 2019 debut project’s invitation to Meet the Woo; a sequel, Meet the Woo 2, was released just weeks before his death. Pop Smoke worked well with the stars of his city, nabbing collaborations with Nicki Minaj, Bronx heartthrob A Boogie wit da Hoodie, and fellow ascending voices Lil Tjay and Fivio Foreign. He’d even have no problem setting his own tone on his Travis Scott collaboration “GATTI,” from the JACKBOYS project. Canarsie had Pop Smoke famously calling friends and associates his “woos,” but his enemies mostly went nameless, barely worth mentioning. As fast as things were moving for him, he couldn’t have had a second of spare time to give to anyone who didn’t believe. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2020 59 GATTI (JACKBOYS, Pop Smoke & Travis Scott) 2020 76 Shake The Room (feat. Quavo) -AT- 2020 33 Dior -1- 2020 65 Zoo York (Lil Tjay feat. Fivio Foreign & Pop Smoke) 2020 73 Make It Rain (feat. Rowdy Rebel) -1- 2020 09 The Woo (feat. 50 Cent & Roddy Ricch) -2- 2020 14 For The Night (feat. Lil Baby & DaBaby) -AT- 2020 05 Mood Swings (feat. Lil Tjay) -3- 2020 04 What You Know Bout Love -4- 2020 37 Show Out (Kid Cudi, Skepta & Pop Smoke) 2021 18 Burner On Deck (Fredo feat. Pop Smoke & Young Adz) 2021 56 AP -OST- 2021 14 Demeanor (feat. Dua Lipa) -1- 2021 55 Tell The Vision (feat. Kanye West & Pusha T) -AT- 2021 64 Bout A Million (feat. 21 Savage & 42 Dugg) -AT- 2021 54 Woo Baby (feat. Chris Brown) -2- 0 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 3 x Top 10 | 6 x Top 20 | 8 x Top 40 | 16 x Top 100 Social Media Pop Smoke http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
January 2, 20224 yr 98 Coldplay Higher Power 1st single from Music of the Spheres Released: 7th May 2021 Label: Parlophone Records Chart Statistics NE (20/05/2021) | 12-25-19-21-23-20-21-24-24-29-23-28-34-33-64-77-93-x RE (28/10/2021) | 26-36-53-65-x Sales: 300k+ Certification: Silver 02 Sales 31 Audio Streaming 29 Video Streaming Video 3lfnR7OhZY8 Biography Coldplay frontman Chris Martin once joked that the two biggest challenges in his life were trying to follow Radiohead and trying to follow Brad Pitt. The Pitt reference was personal, of course—Martin had been married to Pitt’s former fiancée Gwyneth Paltrow—but his self-assessment still felt remarkably apt: Coldplay isn’t just one of the most popular bands in the world, but also torchbearers for a kind of mainstream art-rock whose roots reach back through Radiohead, U2, Pink Floyd and even The Beatles. Yes, the music is anthemic enough to fill arenas—“Clocks”, “Speed of Sound”, “Paradise”, “A Sky Full of Stars”—but detailed and atmospheric, too, stretching the conventions of modern rock without ever losing the emotional thread. Formed in London in the mid-’90s, the band debuted with 2000’s Parachutes. Seasons have changed—the arty experiments of 2008’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, the electro-rush of 2011’s Mylo Xyloto, the eclecticism of 2019’s Everyday Life—but the core of their sound has been consistent: Propulsive, uplifting, grand but vulnerable. In crowded bars and lonely bedrooms, the effect is more or less the same: At the end of the day, Coldplay came for the heart. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 1999 92 Brothers & Sisters -NAS- 2000 35 Shiver -1- 2000 04 Yellow -2- MILLIONAIRE 2000 10 Trouble -3- 2002 02 In My Place -1- 2002 10 The Scientist -2- MILLIONAIRE 2003 09 Clocks -3- 2003 87 Remixes -EP- 2003 100 God Put A Smile On Your Face -4- 2005 02 Speed Of Sound -1- 2005 04 Fix You -2- MILLIONAIRE 2005 10 Talk -3- 2008 08 Violet Hill -1- 2008 54 Lost! -3- 2008 01 Viva La Vida -2- MILLIONAIRE 2009 28 Life In Technicolor II -4- 2010 88 A Message 2010 13 Christmas Lights -NAS- 2011 06 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall -1- 2011 01 Paradise -2- MILLION SELLER 2011 04 Princess Of China (Coldplay & Rihanna) -4- 2011 22 Charlie Brown -3- 2013 12 Atlas -OST- 2014 10 Magic -1- 2014 48 Midnight -IG- 2014 09 A Sky Full Of Stars -2- MILLIONAIRE 2014 70 Another's Arms -AT- 2014 95 Miracles -OST- 2015 07 Adventure Of A Lifetime -1- MILLIONAIRE 2015 52 Everglow -4- 2016 06 Hymn For The Weekend -2- MILLIONAIRE 2016 71 Up&Up -3- 2017 02 Something Just Like This (The Chainsmokers & Coldplay) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2017 70 Hypnotised -PS- 2017 54 Miracles (Someone Special) (Coldplay & Big Sean) -2- 2019 27 Orphans -1- 2019 93 Champion Of The World -AT- 2019 94 Church -AT- 2021 12 Higher Power -1- 2021 03 My Universe (Coldplay & BTS) -2- 2021 24 Let Somebody Go (Coldplay & Selena Gomez) -AT- 2 x #1 | 9 x Top 5 | 19 x Top 10 | 22 x Top 20 | 27 x Top 40 | 41 x Top 100 Social Media Coldplay http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
January 2, 20224 yr I think I'd like this more if someone else sang it oops, Chris Martin's vocal sounds particularly monotonous on this one :(
January 2, 20224 yr Author Higher Power is decent enough for late Coldplay but most likely won't be going down as one of their classics so this is a fairly respectable position for it
January 2, 20224 yr 97 Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande Rain On Me 2nd single from Chromatica Released: 22nd May 2020 Label: Interscope Records Chart Statistics NE (04/06/2020) | [1-2-2-2-2-3-3-4-4-21-22-27-32-37-34-29-29-34-38-48-45-45-48-60-73-85-x] RE (14/01/2021) | 70-93-x RE (04/02/2021) | 95-x RE (18/02/2021) | 92-98-x RE (18/03/2021) | 99-x Sales: 1,200k+ Certification: 2x Platinum 01 Sales 02 Audio Streaming 01 Video Streaming Video AoAm4om0wTs Biography Lady Gaga Some may dismiss pop as inauthentic. But for Lady Gaga—one of popular culture’s greatest, most extravagant creations—the inauthenticity is the point. No artist has more defiantly embodied that provocation this century than the one born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (in New York in 1986). Never wedded to the same image—one minute wearing a dress made of raw meat at the MTV VMAs, the next a coat of Kermit the Frog puppets on German TV—Gaga personifies pop’s surface obsessions while simultaneously upending them. In a sense, her creative identity had crystallized by age 21, having been a child pianist, aspiring actor, and burlesque performer. Each of these facets powered her career’s most distinct parts: the celebrity fascination of her first two albums, 2008’s The Fame and 2009’s The Fame Monster; the subversive layering of 2011’s Born This Way and 2013’s ARTPOP; the sincere reverence of 2014’s Cheek to Cheek, her jazz standards album with Tony Bennett; and the rootsier songwriting of 2016’s Joanne. If 2009’s “Paparazzi” reveled in the flashes, then “Born This Way” celebrated inner light: In translating her diffuse identity into world-conquering art, Gaga has become a beacon to anyone else who’s felt like an outsider. Her loyal following—a.k.a. Little Monsters—has affirmed a deep connection to her message of self-love and self-expression, despite pop’s fickleness and her chameleonic exterior. She played out a simpler version of her path to fame in the 2018 remake of A Star Is Born: But while her character’s ascent was abetted by her lover, Gaga’s was all her own. - Apple Music Ariana Grande Armed with a mesmerizing, nimble soprano—and a vocal register often likened to Mariah Carey’s and Christina Aguilera’s—Ariana Grande began her career as a child star on Broadway and Nickelodeon before transforming into a pop and R&B powerhouse. Instantly recognizable thanks to her signature ponytail, cat ears, babydoll dresses, and breezy self-confidence, her slyly sexual personal brand has, like that of the Spice Girls before her, become an iconic image of young female power. But Grande is more than a symbol: Over the course of several albums and scores of hit singles—beginning with 2013’s “The Way” (featuring Mac Miler) through The Weeknd-assisted “Love Me Harder” and “Break Free” (featuring Zedd)—she has consistently outshined her male collaborators and deftly parlayed her stardom into activism. An LGBTQ advocate and outspoken feminist (“I’m tired of living in a world where women are mostly referred to as a man’s past, present, or future PROPERTY,” she tweeted in 2016), she uses her platform to confront issues like misogyny, sexism, homophobia, and bullying, spreading a message of love over all. Nowhere was this more clear than in May 2017: After terrorists attacked her concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 and injuring hundreds, Grande continued her tour. "Perspective changes your life,” she told Beats 1’s Ebro Darden. "You want to stay in the moment and try not to give into fear, because obviously the whole point of finishing the tour was being there for my fans. You want to set the same example and keep going.” And that she did: Her Max Martin-produced smash “No Tears Left to Cry,” an escapist dance-floor triumph released a year after the attack, sends a message of hope and healing, with a dose of hear-me-roar attitude. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History Lady Gaga 2009 01 Just Dance (feat. Colby O'Donis) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2009 01 Poker Face -2- MILLION SELLER 2009 04 Paparazzi -3- 2009 83 Beautiful, Dirty, Rich -AT- 2009 19 LoveGame -4- 2009 12 Chillin' (Wale feat. Lady Gaga) 2009 01 Bad Romance -5- MILLION SELLER 2009 01 Telephone (feat. Beyoncé) -6- MILLIONAIRE 2009 07 Alejandro -7- 2009 68 Monster -AT- 2009 84 So Happy I Could Die -AT- 2009 89 Dance In The Dark -AT- 2009 88 Speechless -AT- 2011 03 Born This Way -1- 2011 08 Judas -2- 2011 06 The Edge of Glory -3- 2011 13 Hair -PS- 2011 23 Yoü And I -4- 2011 16 Marry The Night -5- 2011 87 White Christmas -AT- 2013 05 Applause -1- 2013 09 Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly) -2- 2013 76 Venus -PS- 2016 12 Perfect Illusion -1- 2016 39 Million Reasons -2- 2016 66 A-Yo -IG- 2017 19 The Cure -NAS- 2018 01 Shallow (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) -OST- MILLIONAIRE 2018 27 I'll Never Love Again (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) -OST- 2018 25 Always Remember Us This Way -OST- 2020 05 Stupid Love -1- 2020 01 Rain On Me (Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande) -2- MILLIONAIRE 2020 17 Sour Candy (Lady Gaga & BLACKPINK) -IG- 2020 29 Alice -AT- 6 x #1 | 10 x Top 5 | 14 x Top 10 | 21 x Top 20 | 26 x Top 40 | 34 x Top 100 Ariana Grande 2013 41 The Way (feat. Mac Miller) -1- 2013 49 Almost Is Never Enough (Ariana Grande & Nathan Sykes) -OST- 2013 92 Last Christmas -NAS- 2014 01 Problem (feat. Iggy Azalea) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2014 16 Break Free (feat. Zedd) -2- 2014 01 Bang Bang (Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj) MILLIONAIRE 2014 48 Love Me Harder (Ariana Grande & The Weeknd) -3- 2014 11 Santa Tell Me -NAS- MILLIONAIRE 2014 86 Get On Your Knees (Nicki Minaj feat. Ariana Grande) 2015 02 One Last Time -4- MILLIONAIRE 2015 10 Focus -NAS- 2016 17 Dangerous Woman -1- 2016 65 Be Alright -IG- 2016 14 Into You -2- MILLIONAIRE 2016 04 Side To Side (feat. Nicki Minaj) -3- MILLIONAIRE 2017 52 Beauty And The Beast (Ariana Grande & John Legend) -OST- 2017 25 Heatstroke (Calvin Harris feat. Young Thug, Pharrell Williams & Ariana Grande) 2017 60 Somewhere Over The Rainbow -NAS- 2018 02 no tears left to cry -1- MILLIONAIRE 2018 20 Bed (Nicki Minaj feat. Ariana Grande) 2018 64 Dance To This (Troye Sivan feat. Ariana Grande) 2018 57 the light is coming (feat. Nicki Minaj) -PS- 2018 04 God is a woman -2- 2018 08 breathin -3- 2018 22 sweetener -AT- 2018 01 thank u, next -1- MILLIONAIRE 2018 08 imagine -PS- 2019 01 7 rings -2- MILLIONAIRE 2019 01 break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored -3- 2019 08 needy -AT- 2019 23 MONOPOLY (Ariana Grande & Victoria Monét) -NAS- 2019 04 boyfriend (Ariana Grande & Social House) -NAS- 2019 02 Don't Call Me Angel (Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey) -OST- 2019 51 Bad To You (Ariana Grande, Normani & Nicki Minaj) -OST- 2020 04 Stuck With U (Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber) -NAS- 2020 01 Rain On Me (Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande) MILLIONAIRE 2020 01 positions -1- 2020 03 34+35 -2- 2020 16 motive (Ariana Grande & Doja Cat) -AT- 2020 19 pov -AT- 2020 67 Oh Santa! (Mariah Carey feat. Ariana Grande & Jennifer Hudson) 2021 38 test drive -AT- 2021 44 Met Him Last Night (Demi Lovato feat. Ariana Grande) 2021 37 Santa, Can't You Hear Me (Kelly Clarkson & Ariana Grande) 7 x #1 | 15 x Top 5 | 19 x Top 10 | 26 x Top 20 | 31 x Top 40 | 44 x Top 100 Social Media Lady Gaga Ariana Grande http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/uploads/group_images/of_154.png http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/uploads/group_images/of_38.png
January 2, 20224 yr 96 Wizkid featuring Tems Essence 5th single from Made In Lagos Released: 30th October 2020 Label: Starboy Entertainment Chart Statistics NE (24/06/2021) | 91-90-93-90-74-53-50-47-35-17-16-19-24-53-59-57-59-67-79-78-86-x Sales: 400k+ Certification: Gold 23 Sales 26 Audio Streaming 08 Video Streaming Video jipQpjUA_o8 Biography “Everything about Lagos is me,” Wizkid told Apple Music in 2020. “That’s what shaped me, that’s what made me, that’s what inspires me every day.” In turn, Wizkid is shaping not just the sound of his city but the image of Nigeria worldwide. Born Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun in Lagos in 1990, Wizkid hit the stage early, forming the group Glorious Five with church buddies at just 11. A decade later, he had regional success with his synth-kissed single “Holla at Your Boy,” which would appear on his 2011 debut solo album Superstar, but it was the lilting “Ojuelegba,” from 2014’s Ayo, that announced him as a force to be reckoned with. Afrobeats—the 21st-century fusion of styles like highlife and juju with house and UK funky—was on the rise, and for Wizkid, it was a case of right time, right place, right voice. Wizkid’s feature on Drake’s 2016 smash “One Dance” cemented his role as one of Afrobeats’ chief ambassadors, paving the way for 2017’s Sounds From the Other Side, his major-label debut. Assisted by global names like Ty Dolla $ign, Major Lazer, and Drake, the album embraced EDM and dancehall while further developing Afrobeats’ irresistibly airy grooves. It didn’t hurt that Wizkid’s blend of African and Caribbean styles coincided with reggaetón’s explosion, satisfying listeners seeking new sounds from a distinctly global perspective. In 2020, Made in Lagos fused more ideas still into his most cohesive whole and confirmed Wizkid’s role as a musical visionary—not just for African music, but for pop music worldwide. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History Wizkid 2016 01 One Dance (Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla) MILLIONAIRE 2016 45 Mamacita (Tinie Tempah feat. Wizkid) 2017 58 Come Closer (feat. Drake) -1- 2018 59 Energy (Stay Far Away) (Skepta & Wizkid) 2018 98 Checklist (Normani & Calvin Harris feat. Wizkid) 2019 42 BROWN SKIN GIRL (Beyoncé, SAINt JHN, Wizkid & Blue Ivy Carter) -OST- 2019 74 I Like (Kojo Funds feat. Wizkid) 2019 28 G Love (Krept & Konan & Wizkid) 2020 67 Ginger (feat. Burna Boy) -1- 2021 16 Essence (feat. Tems) -2- 1 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 2 x Top 20 | 3 x Top 40 | 10 x Top 100 Tems 2021 16 Essence (Wizkid feat. Tems) 0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100 Social Media Wizkid Tems http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
January 2, 20224 yr Quite impressive for WYKBL making the Top 100 twice! Amazing what a consistent streamer the album proved to be. Higher Power did very well to have the staying power to make the Top 100 after only being a mid table hit from a veteran act. It‘s really grown on me. Essence has a really nice laid back vibe to it; nice to see that here too.
January 2, 20224 yr Author hmm, Essence is very middling background music, don't see what people thought was so special about it. and i've not even heard the Bieber version either.
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