1. Wizkid
Ladies and gentlemen the facts behind Wizkid’s being the biggest celebrity of 2017 cannot be over-emphasised. Wizkid started the year on a very good note with the release of the single “Come Closer” featuring Drake on April 26, 2017, “
One Dance” his previous collaboration with Drake became the most streamed song on Spotify globally with over 1.1 billion streams which became a Guinness World Record.
Another event which made Wizkid solidify his position on this list was his sold out concert the ‘Royal Albert Hall’ in London. Then he released his body of work “Sounds From The Other Side”.
Even the awards couldn’t stop coming for Wizkid. In November 2017, he won 3 awards at the AFRIMA awards held in Lagos and the biggest award came at the MOBO awards where he won “Best International Act”. His victory at the MOBOs saw him receive congratulatory messages from President Buhari, VP Osinbajo, and former VP Atiku Abubakar.
Wizkid also got blessed with a bouncing baby boy with his manager, Jada Pollock in 2017. As a celeb, nobody was bigger than Wiz this year.
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