“Xtra Cool” tallied 4.15 million streams (No. 1 on streaming) and 62.7 million in radio reach (No. 1 on radio, third week at No. 1) and 10.2 million in TV reach (No. 6 on TV).
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Ayra Starr Becomes First Female Artiste to Record 11 Entries on Turntable Charts
Ayra Starr becomes the first female artiste to record 11 entries on aggregate charts, passing Tiwa Savage (10) for the most entries among female artistes.
It spends a second week at No. 1on the Nigeria Top 100 – tallying its best week yet across all platforms this week.
The rest of the top four remains unchanged:
Kizz Daniel & EMPIRE’s “Cough (ODO) at No. 2 for another week after logging three weeks atop the Top 100; Tiwa Savage & Asake’s “Loaded” is steady at No. 3 while Ayra Starr’s former 3-week No. 1, “Rush” holds at No. 4.
Wizkid’s “2 Sugar” with Ayra Starr debuts at No. 5 with 2.63 million streams (No. 4 on streaming) and 29.4 million in radio reach (No. 15 on radio) and 1.72 million in TV reach.
“2 Sugar” is Wizkid’s milestone tenth top 10 entry in Nigeria while Ayra Starr records her sixth (she also gets her seventh but more on that later in the rundown).
Asake’s “Joha” slips 5-6 after peaking at No. 2 on the Top 100.
Mavin’s “Won Da Mo” fires into the top ten at No. 7, jumping forty-seven places from last week. The song features the label’s entire roster ensuring that every artiste signed under Mavin now has at least one top 10 entry in Nigeria. (Bayanni is the only artiste who gets his first top ten with “Won Da Mo.”)
This is also Mavin’s second top 10 entry as a billed artiste – following the No. 2-peaking “Overloading (Overdose)”
Also, Ayra Starr becomes the first female artiste to record multiple top ten entries in a week – 3 on this week’s top 10. She joins Asake, Davido, Burna Boy, Wizkid, Olamide and Omah Lay as the only artistes to have at least three top ten entries in a week.
Additionally, she extends her record for most top ten entries in Nigeria by female artiste to 7.
Wizkid’s “Money & Love” holds at No. 8 following arrival of More Love, Less Ego album.
Seyi Vibez’s “Chance (Na Ham)” jumps 16-9 on this week’s Top 100. “Chance (Na Ham)” is Seyi Vibez’s second top ten entry off Billion Dollar Baby – joining “Billion Dollar” which debuted and peaked at No. 10 earlier in 2022.
“Chance” tallied 2.11 million streams (No. 8 on streaming) and 29.5 million in radio reach (No. 15 on radio) – it is Seyi Vibez’s first top 20 entry on radio.
Bella Shmurda & Omah Lay’s “Philo” retreats 6-10.
All the songs on Wizkid’s More Love, Less Ego are on this week’s Top 100; as a result, Wizkid becomes the first artiste to have multiple albums to send all tracks to an aggregate chart in Nigeria.
Ruger’s “Asiwaju” and “Red Flags” debut at No. 70 and No. 89 respectively on the Top 100 off two days of availability during the tracking week.
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Nollywood actor, Saidi Balogun has reunited with his estranged wife, Faithia Williams at the graduation ceremony of their son, Khalid Ayomide Balogun.
The couple, both Nollywood actors, who called it quits with their marriage a few years ago, had cause to come together, to celebrate their son’s achievement as he graduates from the University of Lagos with a first-class honours.
Trending videos and photos captured the couple in jolly mood posing for photographs and exchanging pleasantries with well wishers and friends.
Saidi and Faithia had a bitter separation, which prompted Saidi to caution his ex-wife to desist from using his name, Balogun.
African Voices Changemakers, the popular CNN International magazine programme will this weekend host one of Hollywood’s most celebrated African actors, Djimon Gaston Hounsou. The programme is sponsored by digital solutions provider, Globacom.
The star actor who was born in Benin Republic in April 1960, will be chatting with programme anchor, Larry Madowo on his inspiring journey and how he links the Black diaspora with its roots through the Djimon Hounsou Foundation which he launched in New York in 2019.
Hounsou became a thespian when he acted in the 1990 film titled Without You, I’m Nothing from which he has gained recognition for his outstanding roles in several other films including Amistad (1997); Gladiator (2000) and a French film titled Forces speciales (2011) among other great works. His talents have earned him the Golden Globe Award as Best Actor in Drama and the NAACP Image Award both in 1998 and for his role in Amistad. He also got the Academy Awards as Best Supporting Actor in 2004 as well as an Outstanding Performance Award for Blood Diamond in 2007.
His foundation has been at the forefront of empowering Africans through his philanthropic initiatives like Run Richmond 16.19. He has successfully bridged history, culture, and community in a mission to unite the African diaspora and honour African heritage.
African Voices Changemakers will be broadcast on Saturday at 8.30a.m. and will be repeated same day at noon. Further repeats will be broadcast on Sunday at 4.30a.m. and 7p.m.; Monday 4a.m. Repeat editions will come up in the same broadcast schedule next week from Saturday.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has postponed the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations due to the wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area.
Originally scheduled for Friday, January 17, the nominations will now be revealed on January 19.
Voting for the nearly 10,000 Academy members, which began on January 8, has also been extended by two days, now closing on Tuesday, January 14.
Among the celebrities affected by the fires are former Oscars host Billy Crystal, Paris Hilton, James Woods, and Miles Teller, all of whom have lost their homes.
In a letter sent to members on Wednesday, Academy CEO Bill Kramer offered his condolences, saying, “We want to offer our deepest condolences to those who have been impacted by the devastating fires across Southern California.
“So many of our members and industry colleagues live and work in the Los Angeles area, and we are thinking of you.”
Wildfires sweeping through communities across Los Angeles County, which began around 5:45 pm on Wednesday, have damaged or destroyed over 2,000 homes, businesses, and other buildings, with at least five confirmed dead.
