My Top 5 Hottest Nigerian Songs in 2014

My Top 5 Hottest Nigerian Songs in 2014

2014 has been an exceptionally favored year as far as Nigerian music. A large portion of the most hottest artists of this era put out bounty material. Be it collection, feature or single. There was assortment. In the soul of Nigeria's huge music year, a rundown of the Top 5 Nigerian melodies as I would like to think has been accumulated. These tunes are not in at any rate my undisputed top choices yet an aggregation of the melodies I think shook 2014. The rundown is liable to my conclusion, which finished from examination and clearly makes space for discussion. Lets get talking, which melodies are your Top 20? The following is a rundown of mine:

1. Aye – Davido: The 2014 song of the year had to come from the man of the Year. In the summer of 2013 Davido dropped Skelewu which some might regard as 2013’s biggest tune because of the dance and ofcourse the songs effect. Instead of riding on the Skelewu fame for 2014, the self proclaimed Omo Baba Olowo shocked doubters with this well arranged and melodious song ‘Aye’. The song dropped in February 2014 and a video was released shortly. Since then the whole of Africa has sung her heart out. Many people are still in awe of this rendition. The producer T-spice would probably concede to this song as his biggest production ever to date. Davido won more fans with Aye than he did with Skelewu. The brand grew bigger because of Aye. On YouTube, the video has hit over 12 million views since its release this year. That is the most of any Nigerian video released this year. ‘She no want designer, She no want Ferrari, She say na my love’. Need I say more?
2. Johnny – Yemi Alade: Like Surulere, Yemi Alade’s Johnny was dropped in 2013. October 2013 to be precise. But this song did not really take off until February 2014. The video dropped in March and it made the song massive this year, taking the songstress to debut album levels. Every girl was certainly looking for her Johnny this year, be it at parties, weddings etc. Yemi also scored awards and nominations this year for this single. Being the most viewed Nigerian song by a Female artiste, Johnny made Yemi Alade the King of Queens in 2014. This song just piped Dorobucci for second. The song was and still is very very big.
3. Dorobucci – Mavins (Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage, D’Prince Dr Sid, Reekado Banks, Korede Bello and D’ija): This Doro song was so mega and super that the Mavins became arguably the hottest Label/ Group in 2014. The song had the ‘booty call’ effect from the now defunct Mo’hits. Don Jazzy certainly used this song to remind Nigeria and Africa that he can still make massive songs and also put out new faces through the involvement of his Mavin 2.0. The word Doro is over used in Nigeria at least and the common argument is who had the best verse on this tune. I feel in a year void of Davido and Yemi Alade, this would have been the biggest Nigerian song.
4. Shoki Remix – Lil Kesh Feat Davido and Olamide: I personally think this remix ended the argument about who had the biggest Shoki song. Lil Kesh’s remix to his Shoki single took the song and the dance to another level. Shoki became a major export once the video of this remix premiered. The song might even be the biggest song this year to many people, after all it started a dance and featured vocals from arguably Africa’s hottest singer Davido and rapper Olamide. Lil Kesh is also performing everywhere now and certainly Shoki-ing his way to the top of Nigerian music’s food chain..
5. Sekem – MC Galaxy: You can’t tell me you didn’t dance or at least attempt to dance Sekem this year. The song was so infectious that MC galaxy was at many events this year. From Weddings to Political declarations. Every body just wanted to dance Sekem. Sekem even earned the crooner a US tour, one, which people with bigger catalogues can only dream about. Oya Sekem!