Adedokun Waliyu 
Davido’s new album ‘Timeless’ has achieved a clean sweep for the biggest debut week on all five major streaming platforms in Nigeria.
On March 31, 2023 Nigerian megastar Davido released his fourth album. The highly anticipated 17-track album came off the back of a rare quite moment from the award-winning artists who has made a name for himself as Africa’s most formidable hitmaker.
A week after its release, ‘Timeless’ has shattered multiple African and Nigerian records across music all the five major streaming platforms in Nigeria.
‘Timeless’ sets a new all-time record for the biggest debut for any album in Spotify Nigeria history ‘Timeless’ tallied 14.5 million streams during the week of March 31 — April 6, surpassing the previous record of 4.89M streams by Burna Boy’s ‘Love, Damini’.
Davido’s ‘Timeless’ has broken the record for the biggest debut week for any album on Apple Music Nigeria. Similarly, it set a new record for the most streams in a debut day for African album in Apple Music globally.
Davido’s ‘Timeless’ had over 12 million streams in its first 24 hours, more than any other album in the history of Audiomack. It also the biggest week recorded for any Nigerian or African album on Audiomack history.
‘Timeless’ has broken the record for the biggest debut week by any on Boomplay Nigeria The album has tallied over 22 million streams on the platform after four days of release surpassing the previous record of 18.8 million streams by ‘Love, Damini’ (July 8 — 14, 2022).
Davido’s ‘Timeless’ sets a new record for the biggest debut week for any album on YouTube Nigeria with 4.10 million streams.
In what is an impressive show of its acceptance and of Davido’s commercial prowess, ‘Timeless’ has achieved a clean sweep for the biggest debut week on all five major streaming platforms in Nigeria.
