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I compared this guy to Bruno, God forgive me

WIZKID & ASAKE — “REAL, Vol. 1 – EP” has now surpassed 133 million streams on Spotify.

Dem don use G-Wagon swear for Asake!!! Nah this kind swear me seff want🥹😭

UK OFFICIAL ALBUMS CHART 🇬🇧 Heis first week - #90 M$ney second week - #59 😂😂😂😂😂😂

📈 @asakemusik - 'M$NEY' spend its second week at #59 on UK 🇬🇧 Official Albums Chart 🔥 💰 #MONEY

Most streamed African Artists on Spotify ᯤ [May 14, 2026] Thursday: 1️⃣ Asake — 8.03M 2️⃣ Tems — 7.03M 3️⃣ Wizkid — 6.72M 4️⃣ Burna boy — 5.00M 5️⃣ Tyla — 4.46M 6️⃣ Rema — 3.98M 7️⃣ OMAH LAY — 3.50M 8️⃣ BNXN — 3.08M 9️⃣ Davido — 2.32M 🔟 Ayra Starr — 2.29M

asake M$NEY spends its second week on UK albums chart at #59 🇬🇧 — all of his studio albums has spent multiple weeks on the chart.

Most streamed African Artists on Spotify ᯤ [May 14, 2026] Thursday: 1️⃣ Asake — 8.03M 2️⃣ Tems — 7.03M 3️⃣ Wizkid — 6.72M 4️⃣ Burna boy — 5.00M 5️⃣ Tyla — 4.46M 6️⃣ Rema — 3.98M 7️⃣ OMAH LAY — 3.50M 8️⃣ BNXN — 3.08M 9️⃣ Davido — 2.32M 🔟 Ayra Starr — 2.29M

.@asakemusik “M$NEY” on Spotify since release: Week 1 — 55.93M Day 8 — 5.77M Day 9 — 5.57M Day 10 — 4.93M [SE] Day 11 — 5.08M Day 12 — 4.62M Day 13 — 4.56M Day 14 — 4.24M music.empi.re/money

Dem say he de always behave like some big accounts “na when your tweet blow e de always engage” 😭😭

ASAKE’s “M$NEY” on Spotify since release: Day 1 — 13.15M Day 2 — 8.40M Day 3 — 7.33M [SE] Day 4 — 7.42M Day 5 — 7.02M Day 6 — 6.43M Day 7 — 6.18M Day 8 — 5.77M Day 9 — 5.57M Day 10 — 4.93M [SE] Day 11 — 5.08M Day 12 — 4.62M Day 13 — 4.56M Day 14 — 4.24M Total = 191.5M

Four albums in, Nigeria's most-streamed artist reflects on the true cost of success. At the beginning of Asake’s fourth studio album, there’s a powerful moment that sets the tone for his current journey. Asake is known for always keeping his intros brief, so for 26 seconds, a choir sings in isiZulu. There are no drums or catchy beats yet, just the rich, harmonious voices creating a sense of community and purpose. This opening is a thoughtful choice, especially for an album named after money. It feels almost like a prayer. For Asake, that makes sense. He got rich, then got free, and the first thing he wanted to do was pray. That freedom is significant context. In February 2025, Asake left YBNL Nation to launch his own imprint, Giran Republic. M$NEY is his first album under this label. For someone who built his entire mythology around the accumulation of success, who named himself Mr. Money with the Vibe before the world even knew his face, the move to independence was less a gamble and more a logical conclusion. The bag was secured. Now what? M$NEY is his answer, and it is a more complicated one than the title suggests. On paper, the album reads like a flex. The rollout leaned openly into the display of wealth, from curated visuals to a listening party hosted at a private jet hangar. The sequential unraveling of the marble sculpture of Asake by Iraqi-Dutch artist Athar Jaber — the album cover, the press shots, the whole aesthetic grammar of this era communicates one thing: arrival. Not the hustle toward it, but the settled, Sunday-morning feeling of already being there. But to read M$NEY purely as an ostentatious flex is to miss the quieter anxiety running underneath it. Here, money is as much about gratitude, growth, peace of mind, and even survival as it is about what sits in your account. This album feels like a man looking at everything he has gained and quietly asking himself what it all truly means. On “Worship” and “Gratitude,” the two songs that follow, he doubles down on that tension. Asake is less interested in the flex than in the accounting, tallying what God gave him, what the streets cost him, and what he still owes. The spirituality on M$NEY is insistent. A man who seemingly has everything and still keeps returning to God is clearly searching for something beyond success itself. Sonically, the album is his second most geographically restless. There are debates about whether M$NEY offers enough lyrically, but expecting a deeply cerebral or life-altering project misses the point entirely. This is not an album chasing profundity at every turn. It is laid-back, immersive music, the kind of project that asks you to settle into its textures rather than dissect every line for revelation. It is a combination of Afrobeats with elements of jazz, amapiano, and live choral performances. “Asambe” with Kabza De Small goes full amapiano, of course. “Badman Gangsta” samples Amerie’s 2005 “1 Thing.” “Worship” with DJ Snake pushes into festival-ready EDM. The ambition is global. There are moments on this album that are built for an orchestra pit, and that’s clearly what Asake is reaching for. Most importantly, the core of his identity remains intact even as he scales it, refines it, and pushes it toward something larger. But the most memorable ones are the mellower ones. “Rora” slows everything down with trumpet and saxophone, Asake singing lower about patience and walking together. “Forgiveness,” “Gratitude,” “Wa,” these are the songs that open up on first listen, and they still carry the marrow of what made you fall in love with him in the first place. Gone (mostly) is the frantic street energy that defined Mr. Money with the Vibe, Work of Art, and Lungu Boy. Fans who came up on those will feel the absence of that particular urgency. M$NEY marks a step back into a safer, more recognizable framework.

Na him get the coffin

📈 @asakemusik - 'M$NEY' continues to dominate the Top 10 of NG 🇳🇬 Spotify Daily Top Songs Chart two weeks after release 🔥 - GRATITUDE returns to number #1 (+1) #MONEY

Dj Tunez STATE OF MIND with Wizkid debuts at #112 on spotify nigeria daily top songs chart with over 40k streams (1 hour of tracking) 🇳🇬 — it is now the highest partial debut for DJ Tunez surpassing Money Constant #126

Asake’s “M$NEY” has now surpassed 190M streams on Spotify 200M🔜

Drake and Chrisbrown drop btw🔥🔥

Asake’s “Gratitude” returns to #1 (+1) on Spotify Nigeria Daily Top Songs chart with 456k streams. 📈 — 5th days at 1🔥

WIZKID & ASAKE — “JOGODO” has surpassed 57M streams on Spotify. — It remains the most streamed African song of 2026.

📈 NG 🇳🇬 Spotify Daily Top Artist Chart #1. @asakemusik - (=) 114 days at number 1 so far in 2026

📈 @asakemusik continues to chart four albums in the Top 10 of NG 🇳🇬 Spotify Weekly Albums Chart for the third consecutive weeks 🔥 #1. M$NEY #3. WORK OF ART #4. MR MONEY WITH THE VIBE #8. LUNGU BOY (-1)