Entertainment
Ginger Makes History As First Song On Turn Table Top 50 Chart
In just over a week since release, WizKid’s ‘Made In Lagos’ has dominated music related conversations. The super star’s long awaited fourth studio album came out on the back of sky high anticipations, and it’s clearly delivered on those stakes, reeling in an overwhelming amount of positive reception.
The Burna Boy assisted fan favourite has now made history as the first number one song on the inaugural edition of Turn Table’s Top 50 chart. Announced last week,the top 50 chart aims to be the authoritative representation of the most popular song in Nigeria, compiling numbers from radio airplay across 54 stations, TV airplay and all genre freemium streaming platforms. Is Audio mack, Boom play, YouTube etc.
Initially launching its airplay charts monitor and media planning service (mps),Turn Table chart has been building its rep as the go to place reliable, data driven information about the most impactful songs in the country so far .Turntable has launched the top streaming charts and top Triller charts,however the top 50 charts is its most monumental undertaking.
In its inaugural week, Wizkid dominated the 50 chart which comes as little surprise after Turn Table announced that he had the biggest debut by an album on YouTube NG. Impressively, all fourteen songs on ‘MIL’ make this week’s chart and even more impressive is that four of these songs are in the top ten of the chart. In addition to ‘Ginger’, Reckless (3), No Stress(4) and the Damian Marley assisted Blessed(10) are in the top 10.
Keeping the top five from being a wizkid monopoly, Davido’s delightfully abrasive and unwilling protest anthem,FEM slots at No2, while zoom by fast raising artiste Cheque is at No5,also in the top 10 is Teni’s Damages(6), Olamide’s Infinity (7), Patoranking’s Abule(8), and the newly released icons Remix of DJ Neptune’s Smash song Nobody(9) features recent Big Brother Naija winner laycon.
This weeks edition of the Top 50 charts is largely populated by songs from Nigerian artistes with Non-Nigerian entries including Drake’s ‘Laugh now,cry later’(25), Ariana Grande’s ‘positions’(40) and more.
R&B star, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has recounted the early-career challenges she faced, revealing that she was once booed out of the stage while performing at a school event.
Speaking in an interview with Newsmen, the Crazy Tings crooner shared that she wasn’t only booed but was also harassed with plastic bottles.
“I remember one time I was going to perform at my school as an up-and-coming singer and I thought I was going to receiving a standing ovation.
“But I got booed. They even threw plastic bottles at me,” she recalled.
Tems explained that despite the embarrassing incident and other such rejections, she remained determined to pursue a career in music.
The Tide Entertainment reports that Tems admitted that some of the initial rejections she faced could be due to her conviction to stick to her originality instead of doing covers or familiar sounds like most of her peers.
The Grammy-winning singer said looking back now, she is glad that she didn’t compromise her style despite the initial pressures.
A close associate of late singer Mohbad, Primeboy, has appealed for the artiste’s burial nearly three years after his death.
According to him, Mohbad’s body remains in the mortuary since September 12, 2023, pending burial arrangements.
The Tide Entertainment reports that in a statement Primeboy urged the family, public, and government to permit the burial, stating, “It’s been almost three years since Mohbad left us. His body is still in the mortuary. I’m begging the family, I’m begging the public, I’m begging the government, please let’s bury our brother. He deserves a befitting burial.”
It would be recalled that Mohbad’s death sparked public outrage, protests, and investigations. Ongoing autopsy examinations, police inquiries, and legal proceedings have delayed burial arrangements amid family disagreements and public scrutiny.
Nancy Briggs
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