Award-winning singer, David Adeleke popularly known as Davido has expressed how hard it was to get fans to accept his albums.
The singer however mentioned that he was excited by the positive reception his latest album ‘Timeless’ is getting all over the world.
Davido said this while speaking in the recent episode of the Afrobeats Podcast hosted by Adesope Olajide.
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He said, “I’m happy that people accepted ‘Timeless’. They have always doubted my albums. It’s a different feeling for me because people have never accepted my album and they accepted this one. This is a fresh feeling for me; after my 12 years of killing sh*t!”
“I haven’t felt this much love before. It’s crazy bro,” the DMW boss added.
Davido’s fourth studio album ‘Timeless’ has been breaking streaming records since its release.
The 17-track album broke the record as the first African album to reach Number 1 on the US iTunes chart.
It is also the highest charting album by an African artist on the US Apple Music (peaked at Number 2) and the biggest album first-day stream in the history of Audiomack.
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Davido’s first album ‘Omo Baba Olowo’ came out in 2012 to introduced the artist music prowess to the world. He released a second album in 2019 which he titled ‘A Good Time’. His third studio album ‘A Better Time’ came in 2020.
Critics opined that Davido’s second and third albums were not up to standard. The singer was accused of stat padding by including “old singles” in his albums, especially on the 2019 album ‘A Good Time’ which contained ‘If’ and ‘Fall’ which were released two years earlier.
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