Award-winning Nigerian music sensation, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido has announced that his hit single “Fall” has been certified Gold in the USA and Canada.
Having sold the equivalent of 40,000 and 800,000 copies in Canada and the US respectively, Davido’s “Fall” is now certified Gold.
The 2017 single was released as the second song from Davido’s second studio album, “A Good Time”. The song has become the most-streamed video in Africa with 168 Million views on Youtube and now aims to take its place among the best in the world music charts.
Surprisingly, the song started climbing Billboard Digital Songs Chart and Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop songs in 2019. It peaked in the top 40 of the latter chart and in the top 20 of the former chart. This came just a few months after the song named the most-shazamed non-American song.
‘Fall’ is also the longest-running Nigerian song on the aforementioned charts. Aside from that, ‘Fall’ has been certified platinum in South Africa, PULSE reports. The song is now 200,000 copies of being a platinum selling single in the US.
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Davido took to social media to share the feat with his fans. In an Instagram post, he shared a screenshot of an email from Sony Music letting him know his song “fall” has been certified Gold. Davido in his post noted that he had made a prediction earlier about the song.
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Yetunde Adegoke
