{"id":62345,"date":"2025-03-08T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62345"},"modified":"2025-03-08T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T19:48:10","slug":"davido-makes-royal-history-on-king-charles-iiis-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/08\/davido-makes-royal-history-on-king-charles-iiis-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Davido Makes Royal History on King Charles III\u2019s Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Davido Makes Royal History on King Charles III\u2019s Playlist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian music icon Davido has etched his name in history as the first Afrobeats artist to feature on British monarch King Charles III\u2019s personal music playlist.<\/p>\n<p>This landmark recognition underscores Davido\u2019s global influence and the unstoppable rise of Afrobeats.<\/p>\n<p>The playlist, unveiled on Apple Music&#8217;s new show The King&#8217;s Music Room, showcases King Charles III\u2019s diverse musical taste, featuring legendary artists like Bob Marley, Kylie Minogue, and Grace Jones. Davido\u2019s inclusion cements Afrobeats\u2019 position as a global powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the playlist as \u201cthe soundtrack of his life,\u201d King Charles III highlighted how music brings joy and unites people across cultures and generations.<\/p>\n<p>Set to air on Apple Music 1 next Monday in celebration of Commonwealth Day, this historic moment signals that Afrobeats has not only arrived on the global stage\u2014it\u2019s here to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davido Makes Royal History on King Charles III\u2019s Playlist By Njoku Chijioke Nigerian music icon Davido has etched his name in history as the first Afrobeats artist to feature on British monarch King Charles III\u2019s personal music playlist. This landmark recognition underscores Davido\u2019s global influence and the unstoppable rise of Afrobeats. The playlist, unveiled on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62347,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62345\/revisions\/62347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}