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Filmmaker, Uche Odoh reveals what will happen after Wizkid wins his first Grammy

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Ace Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun known professionally as Wizkid has bagged his first nomination for 64th annual Grammy Awards.

Wizkid was nominated in two categories for his Made in Lagos album and hit song ‘Essence’ featuring songstress, Tems.

Made in Lagos was nominated in the Global Music Album category, while ‘Essence’ got nominated for Best Global Music Performance.

Reacting to the news, Filmmaker and Photographer, Uche Odoh revealed what will happen after the Starboy wins his first Grammy Award.

According to her, his fans known as Wizkid FC would make the social media space an inconducive place for many people.

”After Big Wiz wins the Grammy, this Twitter no go contain Wizkid FC and other people,” Uche wrote.

Nominees on the Global Music Album category are;

Voice of Bunbon, Vol. 1 – @RockyDawuni

East West Players Presents: Daniel Ho & Friends Live In Concert – Daniel Ho

Mother Nature – @angeliquekidjo

Legacy+ – @Femiakuti & Made Kuti

Made In Lagos: Deluxe – @wizkidayo

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Wizkid bags two nominations for 2022 Grammy Awards

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Ace Nigerian singer-songwriter, Ayodeji Balogun aka Wizkid has been nominated for the 2022 Grammys.

Wizkid bagged two nominations with his Made in Lagos album and song ‘Essence’ featuring songstress, Tems.

Made in Lagos was nominated in the category of Global Music Album. While ‘Essence’ got nominated for Best Global Music Performance.

Nominees on the Global Music Album category are;

Voice of Bunbon, Vol. 1 – @RockyDawuni

East West Players Presents: Daniel Ho & Friends Live In Concert – Daniel Ho

Mother Nature – @angeliquekidjo

Legacy+ – @Femiakuti & Made Kuti

Made In Lagos: Deluxe – @wizkidayo

See nominees on the Best Global Music Performance category:

Essence which is the fourth song from his album ‘Made in Lagos’ became fans favourite and summer hit song for celebrities in America and most parts of the world.

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Wizkid, Olamide, Burna Boy are Kings – Samklef

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Nigerian music producer and artiste Samklef has said said that the leading musician’s in the entertainment industry are all kings in their own right.

The Molowo Noni hit maker stated this in a Twitter post on Monday as he mentioned top artistes, Wizkid, Davido, Olamide, Burna Boy and himself as kings.

According to Samklef, everybody is a king in his own lane.

He tweeted;

Wizkid is a king

Davido is a king

Olamide is a king

Burna boy is a king

Samklef is a king.

Everybody Na king for him own lane. If u don’t get it 4gt it.”

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2023: Davido, Wizkid and Burna Boy need to work together and unite the youths – BBNaija’s Leo

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Reality TV star and Real Estate Consultant, Leo Babarinde DaSilva has urged Nigerian music superstars, Davido, Wizkid and Burna Boy to collaborate for the sake of the youths and their country.

Leo advocated for the leading industry acts to work together on a musical project that will unite the youths ahead of 2023 general elections when a new president is expected to be elected.

In a post on his verified Twitter page, the Big Brother Naija ex-housemate, said that even if they work on just three tracks, that it will suffice.

He wrote;

”We need a Wizkid, Davido and Burnaboy joint project to unite all the youths in 2023.

Even if it is 3 tracks.”

See his post:

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Wizkid wins Best African Act at MTV EMA Award

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Afrobeats icon, Ayodeji Balogun otherwise known as Wizkid, on Sunday won the gong for Best African Music Act at the 2021 MTV Europe Music Awards.

He won the award ahead of compatriot Tems.

Other artistes listed in the category were – Diamond Platnumz, Amaarae, and Focalistic.

In a congratulatory message to the singer via their Instagram handle – @mtvbaseafrica, the organizers wrote: “HUGE congratulations to BIG WIZ @wizkidayo for winning Best African Act! From Lagos to the world #MTVEMA #StarBoyHQ.”

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Wizkid’s Made In Lagos becomes first Nigerian album to spend a year on Billboard Charts

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Nigerian Grammy-winning singer, Ayodeji Balogun popularly referred to as Wizkid has set a new record on the Billboard world albums chart.

The Starboy’s latest album ‘Made in Lagos’ has become the first Nigerian album to spend 1 year on the chart, according to Billboard Music.

Big Wiz’s album which hit Billboard charts in October 2020, has spent the first 4 weeks at no1, which is also the longest time a Nigerian artiste has stayed at the no1 spot, the only other album being Burna Boy’s Twice As Tall, which was at the top spot for 1 week.

Longest charting Nigerian albums on the billboard charts are as follows:

1. Wizkid ‘made in Lagos’ (2020) – 52 weeks

2. Fela ‘the best black president’ (1999) – 45 weeks

3. Burna Boy ‘African giant’ (2019) – 36 weeks

4. Davido ‘A good time’ (2019) – 25 weeks 

5. Burna Boy ‘Twice as tall’ (2020) – 12 weeks

6. CKay ‘the first’ (2020) – 6 weeks

7. Wizkid ‘Sounds from the other side’ (2017) – 4 weeks

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Olamide reacts after being offered ‘bribe’ to leak five of Wizkid’s unreleased songs

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Nigerian rap superstar, Olamide has reacted after he was offered some money to leak songs yet to be released by his friend and colleague, Wizkid.

A social media user had asked Olamide to state the amount he would accept so that he can release five of Wizkid’s songs.

The tweet which was an obvious joke got the attention of the Melo crooner who took to his page to react.

The fan identified as @Hadamsnihyihex4 said that he wants the rapper to leak Big Wiz’s songs because he knows the ”Ginger” hitmaker would not be angry.

”Baddo how much you go collect abeg i wan make you help me leak like 5 Wizkid songs and videos na your paddy so him know fit para for you”, he wrote.

See Olamide’s response below:

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Wizkid to headline 2021 Afrochella themed ”Made in Africa” – Billboard

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Nigerian Grammy-award winner, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun better known as Wizkid is set to headline the 2021 Afrochella in Ghana, Billboard reports.

Wizkid will lead the lineup for the one-day festival set to return to El Wak Stadium in Accra for the fifth annual event.

This year’s Afrochella which is the 5th edition is themed “Made in Africa” and it is scheduled to hold December 28.

Afrochella, which is presented by Culture Management Group, aims to amplify the voices of its people and bring Africa’s most talented creatives, artists and entrepreneurs to the world stage.

This year’s event sponsors include Twitter, YouTube, Klooma and First National Bank.

“In the last five years, we’ve made a significant impact on Ghana and its surrounding communities through our Afrochella events. This year, we’re thrilled to return back to El Wak Stadium to celebrate our fifth-year anniversary and to support the revitalization of Ghana’s travel & hospitality industry.

We look forward to welcoming travelers back to the country to once again safely enjoy live events,” CEO and co-founder of Afrochella, Abdul Karim Abdullah said in a release.

The music star also took to his Twitter account to announce share a promotional image for the event.

This year’s Afrochella will also feature 16 cuisines from 16 regions in Ghana and a rising star challenge. Highlights from this year’s art include an exhibition by Rita Benissan SiHene, Afrochella Music Museum: Exhibition History of Ghana and Scarecrow Art Installation.

Fashion will also be prominently featured with African Fashion Night Out in Collaboration with Debonair Afrikk, Afrochella Runway – Exhibition Space for Ghanaian Fashion Designers and Afrochella x Daily Paper Fashion events Bandana Collab.

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Wizkid, Tems bag nominations at the 2021 Soul Train Awards

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Nigerian recording artiste Wizkid, real name Ayodeji Balogun and his Afrobeats colleague, Temilade Openiyi otherwise known as Tems have both bagged five award nominations at the 2021 Soul Train Awards.

The 2021 Soul Train Award ceremony will be coming up on Saturday, November 20.
Wizkid’s and Tems’ nominations come in the Song of The Year, Video of The Year, The Ashford and Simpson songwriter’s award and Best Collaboration for the groundbreaking single, ‘Essence.’

Wizkid then bags a nomination for Album of The Year, for Made In Lagos, while Tems bags another nomination for Best New Artist.

It’s been a tremendous year for both artistes. Wizkid has continued to soar with his fourth album while Tems has also featured on a Drake record.

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How Wizkid’s music saved me from bandits while traveling to Kaduna – Man narrates

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A Nigerian man has described Afrobeat star, Ayodeji Balogun aka Wizkid as his saviour following how he was saved from bandits by the singer’s music.

According to the man with Twitter handle, @starbwoi_Val, he was travelling to Kaduna when armed bandits waylaid their vehicle.

He said the armed men started demanding cash and anyone who couldn’t provide was shot dead, when it got to his turn, something miraculous happened.

As the bandits were about to pull the trigger, an undisclosed song from Wizkid’s ‘Made In Lagos’ album started playing, immediately the bandits began to jubilate and were so happy that they had to let him go.

@starbwoi_Val wrote; ”Traveling to Kaduna then bandits attacked us, they were killing people that had no money on them.

They got to me and as he was about pulling the trigger, Wizkid’s Made In Lagos started playing.

The bandits started jubilating and that was how I was freed ??

WizKid is my savior”

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Wizkid’s ‘Made In Lagos’ submitted for Grammy nomination

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Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun aka Wizkid’s “Made In Lagos” album has been submitted for nomination in the 2022 Grammy Awards.

Made in Lagos which is Wizkid’s fourth studio album was released on October 30, 2020, by Starboy Entertainment and RCA Records.

Billboard, a platform that compiles weekly reports on musical albums in the United States and other countries confirmed on its website that the singer’s work has been submitted for nomination in the “Best Global Music Album” category.

The Billboard wrote: “Wizkid’s Made in Lagos is vying for a nod in the recently renamed best global music album category at the 2022 Grammys.”

Wizkid won his first-ever Grammy award this year with his contribution on Beyonce’s song, Brown Skin Girl.

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I’m capable of selling my parents house just to see Wizkid – Lady reveals

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A young lady has taken to social media to reveal the length she would go to just to meet Nigerian music maestro, Ayodeji ”Wizkid” Balogun.

The lady known as @LeischenH on Twitter stated that she can sell her parents house in a bid to see the Grammy-winning singer.

Her statement sparked reactions on the microblogging platform as people advised her against it in case she was giving the idea serious consideration.

She wrote;

I’m capable of selling my parents house to see Wizkid #FriendsOfAmstelSA”

See some comments below..

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Jada Pollock’s father accepts Wizkid as his son-in-law

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Father of Jada Pollock, Wizkid’s third baby mama seems to have embraced the idea that his daughter and the music star would one day get married.

He gave the hint in a recent post on his official Instagram page, while showering accolades on his daughter.

Pollock, who also doubles as Wizkid’s manager, has a baby boy for the singer.

Her dad known as Lenox Caprice called Wizkid his ‘son-in-law’ as he thanked Jada for making the singer to hit the number 1 spot on Urban radio.

So proud of my daughter for becoming a great manager and my son-in-law @wizkidayo for making number one on the Urban radio and forgive me, my beautiful grandson,” he wrote.

See the post:

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”Even Wizkid knows Davido is the best” – Influencer reacts to Wizkid’s tweet

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A Nigerian Twitter influencer, Tife Fabunmi has said that Grammy-winner, Ayodeji ”Wizkid” Balogun admitted that colleague, Davido is the best musician.

His comment comes after Wizkid made a tweet saying that he is not the best in the music game.

According to Starboy, while people believe he is the best, to him, he only makes good music.

”I’m not even really the best in this shit.I just make some good sh*t!” Wiz tweeted.

Taking to Twitter, Tife said that the Fever crooner’s statement is him acknowledging that Davido is the best singer.

He wrote; ”Even Wizkid knows Davido is the best, debate settled”

His comment sparked debate as fans of both singes went at loggerheads with each other.

See post below:

@Snowkat18 wrote; if you are not humble, something will humble you…made in Lagos thanks for the care

@RespiratoryDafe; 30 bg for life

@flexxgoddave; That’s just wizkid speaking wisely bro

@partyanimal_1st; Pride na why una fav no fit pass wiz

@Chef_NOW_; The best don’t need to call himself the best,people we call him the best. Davido screaming the best while people call him upcoming artist. Machala da big Wizzy the goat Goat

@trendysavage1; Even David’s said it himself Big wiz is the greatest

@One_tooxclusive; Yes now! More reason one MIL TOPS the chart for 2years on Davido’s album

@El_Ghazzy_; Tife, na small thing like this dey vex me oh

@iam_phraycee; Na why una go always dey try catch up, humility no gum una

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Having Wizkid on a song is more important Drake – Skepta

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British-Nigerian rapper, Joseph Junior Adenuga, professionally referred to as Skepta, has said that it was more important for him to be on a song with Nigerian superstar singer, Wizkid than with Canadian rapper, Aubrey ‘Drake’ Graham.

Skepta as who is also fondly called Big Smoke, recently dropped a 5-track Hip Hop project titled ‘All in’, and it featured Nigerian Alte artiste, Teezee, American singer and producer Kid Kudi and Colombian singer J.Balvin.

Speaking at an event organised for the EP release, Skepta stated that it was more important for him to be with Wizkid on a song than have Drake as a featured artiste.

”Me and Drake’s first meeting musically was on a Wizkid record. That was more important to me than asking Drake to jump on a song of mine.” he said.

Recall that Skepta was essential in getting Drake to work with Wizkid on not one, but three tracks, Ojuelegba remix and One Dance in 2016 as well as ‘Come Closer’ in 2017.

According to Skepta, he always knew Wiz was a superstar, hence the reason he had always been rooting for him.

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Wizkid finally receives his Grammy Award trophy

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International music singer-songwriter, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid has finally taken delivery of his Grammy Award plaque.

This comes two weeks after Burna Boy also received his Grammy award plaque for winning the “Best Global Music Album”.

Recall that in March, Wizkid won his first-ever Grammy award for his role in ‘Brown Skin Girl’, a 2019 song by American pop singer, Beyonce.

The project beat other contenders in the ‘Best Music Video’ category like ‘Life Is Good’ by Future featuring Drake, ‘Lockdown’ by Anderson Park, ‘Adore You’ by Harry Styles, and ‘Goliath’ by Woodkid.

To announce the arrival of the plaque, Wizkid took to his Instagram stories show off the Grammy Award.

See photo below:

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Wizkid introduces new dance moves to flow with his forthcoming track (Video)

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Popular Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Balogun popularly known as Wizkid, has introduced new dance moves in anticipation of his soon-to-be released track.

The ”Fever” crooner, who recently wish to be addressed as Big Wiz, is currently on an intra-country tour to meet and interact with fans.

The Grammy winner who visited Abuja over the weekend, touched down Lagos yesterday.

Taking to his social media page, Wizkid shared a video which showed him showing off the new dance moves with the producer of the song.

He had also revealed that the song will be out in less than a week.

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Wizkid brags about “Essence” being the biggest song in the world (Video)

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Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Balogun also known as Wizkid is one artiste who fans say has paid his dues and deserves every bragging right.

Well, the Grammy winner decided to cash in that bragging right recently while on his tour in Abuja.

Wizkid who has been in Abuja since the weekend, bragged about his track, Essence being the biggest song in the world.

He made the declaration the Wizkid Live Party in Abuja at Hustle & Bustle (Spinall), where the superstar requested for the DJ to play him the “Biggest song” in the World.

According to Wizkid, Essence is not the biggest song in Nigeria or Africa and but in the whole world.

While speaking about song which features Tems, he informed fans that Essence is the most played song in Lagos, Abuja, Nigeria and the biggest in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa and The World.

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