{"id":435974,"date":"2017-11-10T19:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T19:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/10\/wizkid-and-davido-compete-for-mtv-best-african-act\/"},"modified":"2017-11-10T19:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T19:30:29","slug":"wizkid-and-davido-compete-for-mtv-best-african-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/10\/wizkid-and-davido-compete-for-mtv-best-african-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizkid and Davido compete for MTV Best African Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Friday, 10 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>bbc.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-11-10<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/68313519.295.jpg\" alt=\"Davido Photos\" title=\"Davido Photos\" width=\"295\" height=\"180\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Davido<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151021603889387\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151021603889387\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1510342229_977_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Nigerian music titans Wizkid and Davido are up against each other this weekend for an MTV European Music Award.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony is happening in London, UK, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>So we had a quick look to see who would win, if it was just up to YouTube views.<\/p>\n<p>Davido&#8217;s If has been watched a whopping 49 million times<\/p>\n<p>Wizkid comes in just short of that with 47 million views on his collabo with Drake.<\/p>\n<p>Just to put that in perspective, one of Drake&#8217;s other songs, Hotline Bling, has 1.3 billion views.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other contestants for the top spot is Angolan singer C4 Pedro. He flew to London yesterday ahead of the ceremony and popped into the BBC headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>He told us that if he wins he will be the first Portuguese-speaking star to get this award.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/helEv0kGHd4\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vqW18C4plZ8\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 31 updated by: 24 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Friday, 10 November 2017 Source: bbc.com 2017-11-10 play videoDavido Nigerian music titans Wizkid and Davido are up against each other this weekend for an MTV European Music Award. The ceremony is happening in London, UK, on Sunday. So we had a quick look to see who would win, if it was just up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":435975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wizkid and Davido compete for MTV Best African Act - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/10\/wizkid-and-davido-compete-for-mtv-best-african-act\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Wizkid and Davido compete for MTV Best African Act - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Entertainment of Friday, 10 November 2017 Source: bbc.com 2017-11-10 play videoDavido Nigerian music titans Wizkid and Davido are up against each other this weekend for an MTV European Music Award. 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