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Nigeria music chart report

This country report reads the latest Nigeria chart snapshot from Chart Atlas and compares the current Top 10 with the previous stored week. It is useful for spotting local breakouts, returning hits, and songs that are stronger in this market than globally.

Latest week: 2026-07-18Region: AfricaPrevious comparison: 2026-07-11
SLICKCurrent #1 by Victony
2,183,548combined streams across this Top 10 sample
2Top 10 songs moving up versus the previous snapshot
1Top 10 songs not seen in this country last snapshot

Nigeria Top 10

RankSongArtistMovementStreams
#1SLICKVictonyup 1317,097 streams
#2GratitudeAsakedown 1276,639 streams
#3BB LifestyleMavonew this week231,824 streams
#4I Know Who I BeDavidounchanged223,607 streams
#5ForgivenessAsakedown 2211,316 streams
#6treat u rightFOLAdown 1196,353 streams
#7Back OutsideBNXNup 1188,899 streams
#8ElumeluYoung Jonndown 2184,950 streams
#9MCBHAsakedown 2183,716 streams
#10ChanelBlaqbonezdown 1169,147 streams

Local signal versus the global table

The clearest local signals this week: SLICK by Victony (local #1, on 1 of 35 tracked charts); Gratitude by Asake (local #2, on 1 of 35 tracked charts); BB Lifestyle by Mavo (local #3, on 1 of 35 tracked charts). Songs like these hold Top 10 positions in Nigeria while staying nearly invisible in the cross-country aggregate — usually a sign of language-market momentum or a domestic release cycle rather than a global push.

Working in the other direction, 15 of the current global aggregate Top 15 songs do not chart in Nigeria at all this week, including Dai Dai by Shakira, Beauty And A Beat by Justin Bieber, Wonderwall - Remastered by Oasis. When a cross-market hit skips a market entirely, the gap usually maps to language, genre preference, or a local release calendar.

50 of the 50 songs on the full Nigeria chart appear nowhere else in the tracked set this week. The highest-ranked market exclusives: SLICK by Victony at local #1; Gratitude by Asake at local #2; BB Lifestyle by Mavo at local #3.

Stability and turnover

SLICK by Victony is a new local #1, replacing Gratitude by Asake from the previous stored week. The longest-running current Top 10 song is Gratitude by Asake, present in the local Top 10 for 10 of the last 10 stored weeks.

10% of the full local chart is new versus the previous stored week, in line with the 12% average across the tracked set — typical turnover for this comparison window.

How to read this market

Nigeria belongs to the Africa region in Chart Atlas. A song that rises here but remains flat globally can indicate a local event, language-market momentum, or a regional genre signal. A song that is simultaneously strong here and in several other countries is more likely to be part of a cross-market trend.

The movement labels compare stored weekly snapshots. They are not a claim about every daily chart change between the two capture dates.