On March 31, 2023, Davido released one of the biggest and most anticipated albums from an Afrobeats performer in history, and the entire world was in his grip.
With his fourth solo album, “Timeless,” Davido reaffirmed why he is regarded as one of the biggest African artists in the world today after months in hiatus.
The impressive figures and numbers David achieved with this project represent the fact that “Timeless” became a project that connected very well with many fans.
Here are some milestones the album has accomplished, taking into account how quickly its popularity has grown since its debut.
ON SPOTIFY
On the first day of monitoring, ‘Timeless’ logged 8.4 million streams. It became the first African album to register that many streams on the first day of release with this total number of streams.
Additionally, Davido was among the top 16 artists on the Spotify Nigeria chart for most first-day streams of a single. On the first day of monitoring, ‘Over Dem’ ranked first with over 460,000 streams. Here is the complete list:
1. “Over Dem” – 460,081 streams
2. “No Competition” ft Asake —-400,378 streams
3. “Feel” —-400,378 streams
4. “Kante”—-330,561 Streams
5. “Unavailable” — 327,689 streams
6. “In The Garden” ft morravey — 306,655 streams
7. “Away” —300,705 Streams
8. “Na Money”—296,413 Streams
9. “God Father” —280,606 Streams
10. “E pain Me” —276,231 Streams
11. “For The Road” —249,236 Streams
12. “Picasso” ft logos olori —242,998 Streams
13. “BOP”—-236,315 Streams
14. “U(JUJU)” —235,943 Streams
15. “Precision”—224,976 Streams
16. “LCND”—216,301 Streams
ON BOOMPLAY
Davido’s “Timeless” record achieved 10 million stream milestone the quickest in Boomplay history. On April 1, 2023, the popular album passed the milestone of 10 million streams. It also retains the record for breaking the one million streams mark the quickest, only 24 hours after release.
ON APPLE MUSIC
The ‘Timeless’ album reached number one on the Apple Music Top Albums chart in the United Kingdom, making it only the second Afrobeats record to do so.
Secondly, Davido’s “Timeless” became the first and only afrobeats album to have every single debut in the UK’s top 100 on Apple Music. The singer also made history by becoming the first afrobeats act to have 10 tracks debut in the top 200 of the US Apple Music Top Songs chart.
Thirdly, “Timeless” peaked at number two on the Apple Music top albums list for the US, making it the highest charting Nigerian album ever.
