Ckay’s Love Nwantiti Was Bigger Than Wizkid’s Essence?

Wizkid’s Essence and Ckay’s Love Nwantiti, was unarguably the two biggest song from Nigerian artistes for a very long time.
Both songs enjoyed massive airplays, topped and still topping charts , breaking and setting new records, however, which is the biggest song between Wizkid’s Essence and Ckay’s Love Nwantiti? Read on

To start with, I will be listing some achievements that Love Nwantiti has received over the last few months that it has been released. Since it’s release, CKay’s Love Nwantiti has been the all-time most streamed African song on Spotify with over 400 million streams.

Aside several covers in more than 5 different languages all over the world, CKay’s original version of Love Nwantiti is now eligible for 2x platinum in Greece after selling over 4 million units in the country. Speaking further, Love Nwantiti has charted in a total of 150 countries several months ago.

CKay’s Love Nwantiti is the most global song to ever come from Africa following the rendition of the song in over 30 different languages including Turkish, English, French, German and Arabic. Another art from Nigeria that has achieved more is the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe translated into about 50 different languages.

Despite the fact that the original version of the song was released in 2019, it became a worldwide anthem during the post lockdown. Ckay’s has gone beyond the shores of Nigeria.

Now, to Wizkid’s Essece, Essence is the first African song to enter the Top 10 on US Apple music chart. Also, moving beyond the USA, Essence is also the first Nigerian song to chart in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 in UK.

Talk about awards, Essence has won several international awards, the Soul Train Awards, NAACP awards and several others. Dubbed by some as the song of the year.

Now you are asked which of the song is the biggest, which would you rather go for?

Between Ckay’s Love Nwantiti And Wizkid’s Essence – Which Was Bigger?
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