Davido and Wizkid are arguably the current best Nigerian top artistes in the Nigerian Music Industry and to an extent Africa. The two have made a considerable input in their music career which has climbed them to the ladder of international recognition as the faces of Africa Afro-Beat genre, thereby, becoming international artistes.
However, the two have always been put at pare and fans of both artistes keep comparing the two to find out who is the best than the other.
In their won confirmation, they all claim to be the best of the best. Whiles Davido and his fans worldwide put themselves on top of all Nigerian artistes, Wizkid and his fans are also doing same.
So, putting the big-mouth bragging aside, why don’t we let the records on the paper speak and prove with fact which is really doing well on the international market therefore, the best over the other.
In so doing, there is no other source of reference which is better than Bill Board Chart. Well, Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of MRC Media & Info and they are highly recommended and over the years led the music chart statistics with the highest credibility in the industry.
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In this comparison, we are going to stick with individual World Digital Song Sales of Bill Board statics to prove either Davido or Wizkid is doing well on the international market.
Now let’s get into it.
1 Total International Hits
In other to make it simple, well first consider between Davido and Wizkid the total number of international hit songs each have so far in their career.
Taking of international hits, we are not limiting songs that hits within the confines of Africa. We are considering on the larger scale the world as it the global world as a whole.
These songs include the ones owned by the artistes themselves and ones they were featured on by other artistes.
Wizkid: According to Bill Board current statistics, Wizkid has a total of 21 international hit songs.
The songs are Brown Skin Girl, Ma Lo, Kana, Fever, Manya, Fake Love, Joro, Smile, Checklist, No Stress, Ginger, Mama, Master Groove, Ghetto Love, Soco, Nowo, Commando, African Bad Gyal, Sweet Love and One For Me.
Davido: According to Bill Board current statistics Davido has a total number of 19 international hit songs.
These songs are Fall, If, Blow My Mind, Risky, Fire, One Ticket, FEM, Holy Ground, Wonder Woman, Bum Bum, D&G, Like That, Flora My Flawa, Bobo, Nwa Baby, Aza Gbagbe Oshi, Summer Body,
In this case, Wizkid wins Davido on the total number of international songs on Bill Board as Wizkid has an accumulation of 21 against Davido’s 19 currently.
2 Top Hits That Falls Under #10
If you are familiar with Bill Board Chart, you’ll know that, the chart also show the total number of international hits songs that falls under number 10 worldwide hits.
So in this case, out of the Wizkid 21 international hit songs, which of these total hit sons was a hit under the top 10 hits on it release. The lifespan is from the date when the song was released for a week. With this scenario, same applies to Davido the 19 international hit songs on Bill Board.
Wizkid: According to Bill Board, out of the 21 songs international hits Wizkid has, 12 songs fell under the top 10 hits worldwide international hits within the week these individual songs were released.
Davido: According to Bill Board, out of the 19 internatioal hits songs that Davido has 13 songs fell under the top 10 hits worldwide international hits within the week these individual songs were released.
Top Hits That Falls On #1
This is the number of each artiste’s songs that hit Number One (1) on the Bill Board Chart.
So in this case, out of the Wizkid 21 international hit songs, which of these hits songs were #1 hits on their release. The lifespan is from the date when the song was released for a week. With this scenario, same applies to Davido the 19 international hit songs on Bill Board.
Wizkid: According to the statistics of Bill Board per the current ratings at the time of writing this post, Wizkid has two songs that were #1 hit on Bill Board internationally.
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These songs are Brown Skin Girl (Beyonce Ft Wizki) and Checklist (Normani X Carvani Harris Ft Wizkid).
Davido: Currently by the time this post was being published, Davido had no song among his 19 international hits that was able to fall at #1 on Bill Board Chart.
So, with these fact-checked statistics by Bill Board, you can now detect between Wizkid and Davido who is doing well on the international market.
