Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka Reacts To Davido’s ‘Timeless’ Album As It Sets New Records On Charts
Football player Bukayo Saka, also known as Saka, is Nigerian-British and recently responded to Davido’s most recent record, “Timeless.” Like many others, the hot winger for Arsenal gave tribute to the influential singer regarding his new album.
With guest appearances from artists like Skepta, Angelique Kidjo, Asake, Musa Keys, Focalistic, FAVE, The Cavemen, Dexta Daps, and the recently signed artists on his rebranded DMW 2.0 imprint, Logos Olori, and Morravey, Davido’s highly anticipated studio album “Timeless” was released on March 31. The 17-track collection is already breaking records.
Following the release of Davido’s album “Timeless” on March 31, 2023, the performer broke numerous records with his work. They Include;
- Largest Spotify First-Day Streams For An African Album
On the first complete day of tracking, 8.4 million streams of “Timeless” were recorded. It was the first African album to register a significant number of streams on the first day after release with this total number of streams.
- Most Significant Streams For A Song On The Nigerian Spotify Chart
The top 16 spots for the most first-day streams for a single on the Spotify Nigeria chart were all held by Davido. On the first monitoring day, ‘Over Dem’ ranked first with over 460,000 streams.
1. “Over Dem” – 460,081 streams
2. “No Competition” ft Asake —-400,378 streams
3. “Feel” —-400,378 streams
4. “Kante”—-330,561 Streams
5. “Unavailable” — 327,689 streams
6. “In The Garden” ft Morravey — 306,655 streams
7. “Away” —300,705 Streams
8. “Na Money”—296,413 Streams
9. “God Father” —280,606 Streams
10. “E pain Me” —276,231 Streams
11. “For The Road” —249,236 Streams
12. “Picasso” ft logos olori —242,998 Streams
13. “BOP”—-236,315 Streams
14. “U(JUJU)” —235,943 Streams
15. “Precision”—224,976 Streams
16. “LCND”—216,301 Streams
- Album Record: BoomplayDavido’s “Timeless” record attained a 10 million stream milestone, the quickest in Boomplay history. The famous album reached a milestone of 10 million streams on April 1, 2023. It also retains the record for the fastest album to get 1 million streams just 24 hours after its release.
- Apple Music UK’s Top Albums RecordOnly the second afrobeats record in history, “Timeless,” reached the top spot on the UK’s Apple Music Top Albums chart.
- Record for the Apple Music Top Songs ChartThe entire ‘Timeless’ album by Davido debuted in the top 100 of the UK’s Apple Music top songs list, making it the first and only afrobeats album to do so. The singer also made history by debuting ten tracks in the top 200 of the US Apple Music Top Songs chart, a first for an afrobeats act.
- ‘Timeless’ peaked at number two on the US Apple Music top albums list, making it the highest-charting Nigerian album ever.
- Additionally, it broke Burna Boy’s previous mark with “Love Damini,” which stood at over 3.5 million streams and became the first Nigerian album to have the essential opening day on Boomplay with over 7.5 million streams.