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Asake’s ‘Lungu Boy’ breaks Spotify, US Apple record

Asake’s third album gained over 5.86 million Spotify streams on its opening day, and on its first day, Lungu Boy beat Davido’s Timeless album, which stood at 4.9 million streams.

For a Nigerian album on global Spotify, ‘Lungu Boy’ also set a new record for the biggest opening day global streams, with 9.2 million.

‘MMS’, the second track of the album, recorded 870,577 streams on its first day of release on Spotify Nigeria, beating Wizkids ‘IDK’, which was at 626,000 million streams on its opening day.

‘Lungu Boy’ surpasses the opening day streams of any project released this year as it attained 3.03 million streams on Spotify Nigeria on its second release day.

It is the biggest second-day streaming for any album in 2024. The single also made history on Apple Music US chart, becoming the highest charting Nigerian album previously held by Burna Boys ‘I Told Them’ and Davido’s ‘Timeless’.