{"id":66778,"date":"2025-05-28T11:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66778"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:07:12","slug":"ayra-starr-becomes-first-nigerian-female-artiste-to-hit-1-billion-youtube-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/28\/ayra-starr-becomes-first-nigerian-female-artiste-to-hit-1-billion-youtube-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayra Starr Becomes First Nigerian Female Artiste to Hit 1 Billion YouTube Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grammy-nominated Afrobeats sensation Ayra Starr has made history as the first Nigerian female artiste to surpass 1 billion views on YouTube, a milestone driven largely by the global success of her hit singles Rush and Commas, which collectively contributed over 500 million views.<\/p>\n<p>According to BusinessDay\u2019s report titled \u201cTop 16 Nigerian Music Artists with Most YouTube Views,\u201d Ayra Starr ranks among the platform\u2019s top Nigerian performers, sitting just behind Fireboy DML-an indication of her growing dominance in the music industry.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavin Records star announced the achievement via her Instagram fan page, celebrating the moment as a significant step forward for female artistes in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>With this feat, she has now surpassed Yemi Alade\u2019s record to become the most-viewed Nigerian female artiste of all time on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Ayra Starr joins the elite league of Nigerian artists-Burna Boy, Flavour, Wizkid, Davido, Rema, Ckay, Kizz Daniel, P-Square, Omah Lay, Fireboy DML, and Tekno-who have also crossed the 1 billion YouTube views mark.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May, the singer earned the prestigious Platinum Certification in the United Kingdom for Rush, which surpassed 600,000 combined sales and streams.<\/p>\n<p>The hit track also marked her debut on the UK Official Top 100, further cementing her reputation as one of the most sought-after African music artistes on the global stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; Grammy-nominated Afrobeats sensation Ayra Starr has made history as the first Nigerian female artiste to surpass 1 billion views on YouTube, a milestone driven largely by the global success of her hit singles Rush and Commas, which collectively contributed over 500 million views. According to BusinessDay\u2019s report titled \u201cTop 16 Nigerian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66778","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66780,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66778\/revisions\/66780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}