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Ayra Starr becomes first African female artist to hit 5m followers on Spotify

Ayra Starr has made history on Spotify by reaching an impressive milestone.

The Nigerian music star now has more than 5 million followers on the streaming platform. With this achievement, she becomes the first African female artist to reach that number of followers.

Even though this is a big step for her, Ayra is still behind Tems when it comes to total streams. Tems continues to lead the chart of most-streamed African female artists on Spotify.

So far, Ayra Starr has 2.7 billion total streams from all her songs and features. In comparison, Tems has gained 3.8 billion streams on the platform.

Ayra’s most popular song on Spotify is “Santa”, which has been streamed over 707 million times.

Her most successful song as a solo artist is “Rush”, with more than 474 million streams so far.

Ayra’s new record shows how fast her fanbase is growing and how much her music connects with listeners around the world.

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