Like Davido, Yemi Alade Becomes 2nd Nigerian Artist to Hit 100M Views On YouTube

Sometimes late last year, Nigerian Afro-pop superstar and DMW‘s boss Davido made history as first Nigerian music star to hit 100M views on Google’s owned video-streaming platform YouTube with his 2018 hist single ” Fall ”.

With less down a month, the longest ever most viewed African music video, Yemi Alade‘s ” Johnny ” joined Davido‘s ” Fall ” with 100M views on YouTube.

The happily and excited Mama African singer Yemi Alade took to her Instagram page to announce her new feat, whereby she also used the opportunity to thanks her fans for the support over the years.

 

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THANK YOU – THANK YOU – THANK YOU🔥🔥🔥 100MILLIONVIEWS #JOHNNY – @yemialade #WEDIDIT #ITSEFFYZZIEMUSICGROUP . #2019NaYearOfFireWorks #yemialade . .CC @effyzziemusicgroup @rebelmove @kokobelieves @onaziogaba @shopsydoo @justjojoent

A post shared by YemiAlade (@yemialade) on Jan 27, 2019 at 7:27am PST

She also promised her fans that she will be ”putting in more work this year” as she was encouraged by the support.

 

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YES!! 100MILLIONVIEWS !!!!!AND NEARLY 1MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!!! I AM SO GRATEFUL, I’LL PUT IN MORE WORK AS GOD PERMITS, I PROMISE!!! #2019 . . ., . . #THANKYOU #FORYOURSUPPORT #FORYOURTIME #FORTHELOVE #WEDIDIT #ITSEFFYZZIEMUSICGROUP . #2019NaYearOfFireWorks . .CC @effyzziemusicgroup @justjojoent

A post shared by YemiAlade (@yemialade) on Jan 27, 2019 at 6:01am PST

Other Nigerian videos that are close to hitting the landmark number include ‘Pana’ by Tekno, which has been viewed over 90M P-Square’s ‘Personally’ with over 87M and Runtown’s ‘Mad Over You’ with over 81M views.