Davido's 'Timeless' shatters multiple Nigerian streaming records

Davido's new album 'Timeless' has shattered records across Nigerian and international music streaming platforms.

On March 31, 2023 Nigerian megastar Davido released his fourth album. The highly anticipated 17-track album came off the back of a rare quite moment from the award-winning artists who has made a name for himself as Africa's most formidable hitmaker.

24-hours after its release, 'Timeless' has shattered multiple African and Nigerian records across music streaming platforms.

Below are some of the achievements of 'Timeless' after 24 3 days of its release.

1. ‘Timeless’ breaks the all-time record for the biggest debut week by any album on Spotify Nigeria in its first day of release ‘Timeless’ tallied 4.91 million streams on March 31; surpassing the previous record debut week total of 4.89M by Burna Boy’s ‘Love, Damini’.

2. The first track on the album 'OVER DEM' breaks the all-time record for most single day streams for any song in Spotify Nigeria history, over 2x the previous record (460K).

3. 24 hours after its release 'Timeless' charted in the Apple Music Album charts with 102 countries .

4. 'Timeless' album breaks the record for the biggest first day streams on Boomplay. — Its 7.25M streams on opening day surpasses the previously set record by Burna Boy’s 'Love, Damini' (3.38M).

5. 'Timeless' tops Apple Music Album chart in 26 countries.

6. 'Timeless' peaked at NO. 2 on United Kingdom Apple Music chart which is a record for an African album.