Simi, Flavour named highest downloaded Nigerian artistes ...as Boomplay celebrates a milestone

X3M music act,Simi alongside contemporary highlife singer, Flavour are currently the highest downloaded Nigerian artistes online, according to Boomplay music, Africa’s foremost music content distribution platform.

Mr Oye Akideinde, the company's Regional Director (West Africa), made this known, at a press parley to announce the 10 million milestone recorded by the platform in Lagos. He said Simi's songs are the highest downloaded on their platform followed by Flavour's songs.

Akideinde,also announced the big breakthrough that the platform has hit 10 million installations off Google Play store.

Speaking on how the platform has maintained its top position, Boomplay music boss said “ This new milestone is a step closer to building the largest and most sustainable music ecosystem for artistes and fans in Africa.’’

Ms. Tosin Sorinola, Head of PR, said “This is another major milestone for Boomplay Music and we are more than grateful for the support and involvement of our content providers, users and the team that made it possible to achieve this by sharing the vision of making Boomplay Music the No. 1 Music App in Africa. This is the first of many more milestones to come and a renewed future for digital music distribution’

Rising from a modest number of installs when it launched in Google Play store in 2016, the platform rose to 1 million installations in January 2017 and by November of same year, it had risen to 5 million. Its fast-growing streak of installations doubled in June, 2018 to 10 million installations making its total user base 29 million. Boomplay Music is now tipped to reach the 40 million total user base by December 2018 confirming the streaming service as Africa’s fastest rising music service. The platform parades content from multiple genres such as Afrobeat, Fuji, Hip-Hop, Afropop, Rap, Reggae and Gospel among others. Some of the biggest names on the platforms include Davido, Fela Kuti, Wizkid, Sinach, Tiwa Savage, Nathaniel Bassey, Abass Akande Obesere, M.I. Abaga, King Sunny Ade, Phyno, Osita Osadebe, Simi, Small Doctor, Diamond Platnumz, Vanessa Mdee, Chris Brown, Flavor, Cardi B among others.