Nigeria, Nov. 10 -- Afrobeats superstar Ayodeji Balogun, known as Wizkid, has made history by becoming the first African artiste to surpass 100 million Shazams.

Shazam is a music recognition app that identifies songs by listening to short audio clips. When a user taps to "Shazam" a track, the app quickly matches the sound to its vast music database, displaying the song's title, artist, and other details.

Fans widely use it to discover music, and the industry uses it to track song popularity and global reach.

Data from the artiste's Shazam profile shows that Wizkid's songs have accumulated 100 million Shazams across 185 charted tracks, spanning 1,230 cities in 68 countries.

Wizkid attained the feat in early November, shortly after he d...