BRIT Awards Honours Wizkid For Setting New Afrobeats Record in UK
Wizkid, a singer from Nigeria, received recognition from the British Phonographic Industry music award body.
The honour follows his most recent accomplishment in the UK.
On July 31, 2023, the Brit Awards revealed through twitter that the Starboy crooner had won the esteemed Brit Billion Award for accumulating an astounding one billion streams in the United Kingdom.
The tweet reads:
“It’s one billion UK streams for @wizkidayo, who was presented with his BRIT Billion Award while in London for his incredible show at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.”
With the latest achievement, Wizkid is the first Afrobeats and Nigerian artiste to achieve this tremendous feat.
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