Music

Update: Davido’s Timeless Hits One Million Streams Hours After Release

The blockbuster album from Nigeria’s Afrobeats superstar, Davido Adeleke, Davido, titled ‘Timeless’ is currently making waves just less than 12 hours after its release on Friday.

The album on Friday afternoon has amassed over a million streams on music platform, Boomplay six hours after its release.

The hit album which relaunches the musical career of Davido following a period of solitude following the death of his three-year son, Ifeanyi is topping Nigeria’s Top Albums Chart, the UK’s Top Albums Chart as well as on Apple Music.

Meanwhile, Grammy Awards winner, industry colleague and friend of Davido, Ayo Balogun (Wizkid) has tweeted his support for the release of the song and enjoined fans of Davido to listen to his latest work.

Timeless is a 17-track album that is expected to continue making waves for a long time.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.