Rema, Burna Boy Top Billboard Afrobeats 2023 Rankings Ahead of Wizkid, Davido
By THECONSCIENCEng
Superstar Nigerian Singers, Burna Boy and Rema have dominated the prestigious 2023 Billboard U.S. Afrobeats awards across the categories, closing the year on a high note and dwarfing fellow singers like Wizkid, Davido and Asake.
Grammy-winning singer, Burna Boy, was ranked No. 1 on the Billboard Year-End U.S. Afrobeats Artists Chart while ‘Calm Down’ crooner, Rema also ranked No.1 for both Billboard Afrobeats Songs chart and Billboard’s 2023 Pop Airplay & Rhythmic Airplay year-end chart.
In the Artiste Chart category led by Burna Boy, ‘Rema occupied the second spot while Tems, Cameroonian diva, Libianca, and Wizkid got third, fourth and fifth spots respectively.
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Ayra Starr, CKay, Asake, Davido and Oxlade completed the top 10 in the list released on Tuesday via the Billboard website.
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Meanwhile, Rema won the Songs Chart with ‘Calm Down’ remix featuring Selena Gomez while Libianca’s ‘People’ and Tems’ ‘Free Mind’ ranked at number two and three spots respectively.
Wizkid’s ‘Essence’ featuring Tems and Justin Bieber, and Burna Boy’s ‘Last Last’ completed the top 5.
Rema also topped the Airplay & Rhythmic Airplay year-end charts with ‘Calm Down’, and was No. 6 on the Hot 100 Year-End 2023 chart.
The Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs is a chart that ranks the best-performing Afrobeats singles of the United States.
Its data is assembled by the charts production manager and published on Billboard magazine.
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At the end of the year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Afrobeats chart based on the information.
Tems won the 2022 edition.
