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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.