Wizkid’s Essence Breaks YouTube Record 4 Years After Its Release

It has been reported that Wizkid, whose real name is Ayodeji Balogun, has achieved remarkable success with his song Essence featuring Tems. The audio version has reached 100 million streams on YouTube, while the music video is approaching 200 million views.

Essence was celebrated as the summer hit when it came out and continued to be recognized a year later. However, in 2021, Wizkid’s hit Essence did not get a nomination for Record of the Year in the 2022 Grammy nominations.

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Tooxclusive has reported that Nicki Minaj stated the viral hit song should win the Grammy for Song of the Year.

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@diamond_khalid_:

“Haters are Quiet?.”

@ify._badie:

“If God no create mumu, how Davido wan take get fans??.”

@black_wayne101:

“Biggest musician ? but some people go start to Dey compare one influencer with am now,”

@only1sodiq_:

“my ?….frogido can’t relate.”

@active_donatello:

“First time I’m seeing a YouTube audio getting 100m streams?.”

@lord__tinny:

“Not your regular.”

@fabulous_richy007:

“This song has two audio on YouTube and both are 100m stream. The only African artist that has two audio for a single song on YouTube. ????”

@ayo_of_fc:

“Thank you for your hard work, we promise more in the next MORAYO album ????.”