The list, unveiled by the streaming service in an Instagram post on Monday, is dominated by Nigerian artists.

Ranked alongside Burna Boy are Divine Ikubor, known as Rema, Balogun Ayodeji, popularly called Wizkid, Ahmed Ololade, Asake, and Ayra Starr, as the only female artist on the latest ranking.

Spotify posted, “Afrobeats continues to expand its reach, with fans streaming artists like #heisrema, #wizkidayo, and #burnaboygram from Nigeria to Brazil. Check out some of the top songs, artists, and countries fueling the genre’s discovery and growth globally.”

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The platform also unveiled the top Afrobeats songs on Spotify for 2025.

Accordingly, top songs are Santa by Ayra Starr, Rauw Alejandro, and Rvssian; Shake It To The Max (FLY) – Remix by MOLY, Shenseea, Silent Addy, and Skillibeng; Calm Down (with Selena Gomez) by Rema, featuring Selena Gomez, WE PRAY by Burna Boy, Coldplay, Elyanna, Little Simz, and TINT; and People by Libianca.

Spotify also said Afrobeats songs are most discovered in 2025 in the US, Brazil, France, the UK, Germany, and Nigeria.

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Blinding Light was released in November 2019 as the second single from his album After Hours, “Blinding Lights” spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the first track to stay in the chart’s top 10 for a full year. It was also named Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Hot 100 song in 2021.

The song’s No. 1 ranking on Billboard’s Top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the 21st Century” list, which ranked music from 2000 to 2024, came after the new milestone.

The Weekend earlier wrote when the song reached four billion streams in January 2024, “I’ll never stop being humbled by anything I create, making its way to millions of people, let alone billions. I’m so grateful that this music evokes a feeling in listeners that keeps them coming back.”

He is now among the most-streamed musicians of the decade with 28 songs in Spotify’s Billions Club, including Blinding Lights, which is the most of any artist.

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Nigerian singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has made history as the first female African artiste to have a song earn 1 billion streams on Spotify.

She achieved the first as her collaborative hit with Future and Drake, ‘Wait For U,’ recently hit the 1 billion streams mark on Spotify.

The song, which was released in 2022, samples Tems’ song, ‘Higher’ from her debut extended play, ‘For Broken Ears’ (2020).

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The song debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot 10, making Tems the first African artist to debut atop the chart.

‘Wait for U’ received two nominations at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards: Best Rap Song and Best Melodic Rap Performance, winning the latter.

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