Nigerian entertainment journalist and podcast host Joey Akan put together a thread about a Nigerian artist named Payper Corleon, the musical artist is not known in the music scene but is doing well hence he decided to share more light on him. Payper Corleon has monthly Spotify listeners of 145k but has song recording as many as a billion streams.
Read Joey’s thread below;
“Based on numbers, the greatest Nigerian artist you might not know is a rapper named Payper Corleon.
Over 145k listeners on Spotify, with some more interesting numbers. He has a song with over 1 billion streams, and others with 35 million, 56 million, and 16 million.
In comparison, Ckay's global stunner, "Love Nwantinti" is 671 million. Rema's "Calm Down" is hugging 613 million. Burna Boy's "Last Last" is a "meager" 240 million, while Wizkid's "Essence" is 167 million.
But Payper Corleon's "Drip too hard (remix)" has 1.1 billion streams.
So take note Afrobeats enthusiasts, based on numbers on Spotify, the biggest Nigerian song is owned by Payper Corleone”.
The thread went viral and users took to the comments section to add their cents to the discussion, a few of the comments are highlighted below;
@Sweeegu
“It’s a glitch. Spotify has picked the “drip too hard” beat by Lil Baby and assigned it to this track as well. If you check Lil Baby’s page, he has the same number of streams”.
@nazonuzo
“Wait. There's an American drip too hard. So how did that happen that the remix is by a Nigerian? Crazy men”
@imagesavannah:
“That guy is a content thief lol, he remixed lil baby's
song and he did well with it o. Honestly, he killed it
but bro that's like a shortcut to success. Let him
go organic with his own body of work. Maybe he's paying for royalties”.
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