There are several successful Afrobeats artists in Nigeria and they usually get massive views across several story platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Audiomack, YouTube, and other popular streaming platforms. 

Wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido, Rema, and other successful Afrobeats artists get millions of streams across numerous streaming platforms monthly. In this article, I’m going to let you know the Afrobeats artists with the most hits in 2024.

There are several ways of picking hit songs and the number of streams is one of them. That is why the number will count in this article. 

Several audio streaming platforms show the number of streams every song gets daily, weekly, and monthly, with this number we can pick hit songs from the thousands to millions of songs that are available in each country at a given time.

Apple Music, Spotify, Audiomack, and YouTube Music are some of the platforms that showcase their data to all users so that it will be easy to pick the back song as of 2024 in Nigeria. 

Afrobeat Artists with the Most Hits in 2024

Burna Boy

Burna Boy is a popular Nigerian singer and songwriter whose full name is Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, born on 2 July 1991 in Port Harcourt, River State Nigeria. 

Burna Boy is one of the most successful Afrobeats artists, currently, his song Higher, is among the chart-topping songs on the Nigerian Apple Music top 100. 

Higher is currently occupying number 2 of the Nigerian Apple Music top 100 at the moment of writing this article. 

Olamide

Olamide is a popular Nigerian singer, rapper, and songwriter. He is the founder of the popular record label YBNL Nation.

Olamide has been one of the best artists in the Nigerian music industry for over 10 years. He has dropped 11 albums including Rapsodi, Street OT, Baddest Guy Ever Liveth, YBNL, Eyan Mayweather, and others. 

In 2024, he is among the Afrobeats artists with the most hits.

Metaverse is one of the songs from Olamide’s new album titled Ikigai / 生き甲斐 Vol. 1.

Other songs off the album include Hello Habibi, Uptown Disco, and others.

Rema 

Rema dropped an album this month, which is currently rocking the Nigerian music industry at the moment of writing this content.

Currently, five songs from Rema’s new album are occupying the Nigerian Apple Music top 10.

These songs include Yayo, Hehehe, Ozebe, Benin Boys, and March Am receptively. 

Asake

Asake is a popular Nigerian singer and songwriter who became famous immediately after he was signed to the popular Nigerian record label, YBNL Nation. 

Over the years, Asake has been one of the most successful Afrobeats artists not just in Nigeria but globally because he has dropped several hit songs like Sungba, Bandana, Peace Be Unto You, Omo Ope, and others.

In 2024, Asake continued to drop several hit songs like Lonely At The Top, Only Me, Stubborn, and others.

Ayra Starr

Ayra Starr is one of the young Nigerian musicians that have had a successful year, since last year till this moment she has been one of the best music artists not just in Nigeria but across the African continent.

She has dropped several music projects that produced numerous hit songs since she signed her record label deal with Mavin Records label. 

Oyinkansola Sarah Aderibigbe was born on 14 June 2002 and came into the limelight in the Nigerian music industry when she dropped his first hit song titled “Away“.

In 2024, Oyinkansola was able to drop numerous hit songs like Bad Vibes, Last Heartbreak Song, Commas, and others.

Ayra Starr is known for several hit songs like Rush, Overloading, Away, Beggie Beggie, Bloody Samaritan, and others. 

Tems

Tems is one of the most successful female Afrobeats singers in 2024, she has several hit songs that got millions of views from numerous streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Audiomack, including YouTube, TikTok, and other platforms.

Me & U, Gangsta, Love Me JeJe, and Wickedest are some of Tems hit songs in 2024. 

Seyi Vibez 

Seyi Vibez is a popular Nigerian singer and songwriter who was born on 12 July 2000. The 24-year-old Lagos-born singer is one of the best Afrobeats artists in Nigeria since he came into the limelight in 2020.

Even though 2024 is not yet completed, Seyi Vibez has already had a successful year because he has been able to drop a music project that produced numerous hit songs that spent days in the top 10 on Nigerian Apple Music. Likewise, other audio streaming platforms like Spotify, Audiomack, YouTube Music and others. 

Instagram, Casablanca, Lagos, Shine, WhatsApp, Abu Dhabi, Santorini, Manchester, Doha, and Albert Einstein are some of the hit songs from Seyi Vibez in 2024. 

In Conclusion

Several successful Afrobeats artists in Nigeria have produced numerous music projects in the year 2024. 2024 is not over yet there will still be more music projects that will stop the charge for a long time in the industry. A few hours ago, Burna Boy took to his Twitter official account to announce a new album that will be dropping soon. 

So you should expect more projects from numerous singers and songwriters in Nigeria before the end of 2024. 

The Afrobeats artists and songs that appeared in this content are picked based on the numbers of streams across several audio and video streaming platforms inclined YouTube, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Audiomack, and other popular streaming platforms.