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Tiwa Savage is the greatest African female artist of the last decade and will extend her record for the next decade, she has been giving hits and setting records every year since the beginning of her career
Let's see year by year breakdown
A THREAD

It's #WorldTiwaDay Tiwa Savage is the greatest African female artist of the last decade and will extend her record for the next decade, she has been giving hits and setting records every year since the beginning of her careerLet's see year by year breakdownA THREAD

From Los Angeles recording basement studio (which is currently Universal Music headquarters) working as a songwriter, she wrote over 600 records and most of them were sold to A-Listers like Chris Brown, Mary J Blige, Jennifer Hudson and more. Did back up singer for George Michael

She's credited for some songs as a lyricist/songwriter and most of the songs she was working as a "ghostwriter". She shifted to Nigeria and enter music industry directly and in 2010 the first song she released was directly a hit song "Kele Kele Love". She earned 3 awards in 2010

In 2011
She dropped Love MeX3 a song which gave her The Headies win for Best Vocal Performance (Female) and nomination for Next Rated.
She earned a total of 10 nominations and won 4 awards in 2011.

2012
She dropped Ife Wa Gbona and earned a hit collaboration with Oyi Remix
Ife Wa Gbona earned a total of 4 nominations in Nigeria Music Video Awards (NMVA) and won 1 award
She bagged a total 9 nominations in 2012 and won 4 awards.

2013
Tiwa Savage was on her bag in 2013 she earned 3 big hits Wanted , Without My Heart and Eminado
She released her first studio album "Once Upon A Time" which stands out as the longest charting album by a Nigerian female act on iTunes till date.

Fun fact: Wanted was produced by Warren Oak an American producer who has produced for Chris Brown, Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, Trey Songz, Big Sean, Rihanna, Ariana Grande, John Legend and more
Warren Oak has produced 4 songs on Once Upon A Time album.

In 2013 Tiwa Savage became the first Nigerian female act to earn a nomination in MOBO Awards for Best African Act
She earned a total of 12 award nominations that year and won 7 awards.

2014
She released "My Darlin" a lead single for her 2nd Studio album R.E.D. She earned a fantastic feature "Girlie O" which changed Patoranking career.
She earned 31 award nominations and won 12 awards that year.

In 2014
She became the first Nigerian female act to earn a nomination in BET Award for Best International Act: Africa alongside Davido, Diamond Platnumz and Sarkodie
Earned a second MOBO Awards nomination for Best African Act, did it back to back in 2013 and 2014 respectively.

2015
She dropped African Waist a second lead single for "R.E.D"
Got a Roc Nation distribution deal
R.E.D Album was released and went down as a first album by a Nigerian female act to debut on UK iTunes and Deezer Global Top 200 Albums.

In 2015
Dorobucci was one of the biggest songs in Africa,won MTV MAMA Song Of The Year.She gave Korede Bello his biggest collaboration that year. She earned a total of 16 award nominations and won 6 awards
Did you know:R.E.D was a 58th Annual Grammy Awards consideration contender

2016
At the beginning of the year, the Deluxe version of R.E.D was released. Became the first album by a female act to debut on UK, Germany and Italy iTunes. Charted on over 19 countries in Apple Music and iTunes. Went Number 1 in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya iTunes albums chart.

In 2016, Tiwa Savage created 4 big hits, Standing Ovation, If I Start To Talk, Keys To The City and Bad
This got her 14 award nominations and won 7 awards.
She became the first African female act to get a honorable invite for MTV VMAs.

2017
All Over set up a new phase of Tiwa's career
It's the most streamed African female song in Pandora (US platform)
All Over is the first female artist single to debut on Amazon best sellers US and UK chart.
All Over is still charting now on Ghana and Uganda iTunes
Evergreen

In September 2017, Tiwa Savage released "Sugarcane" the most streamed Nigerian EP of all time. Sugarcane went #1 on World iTunes chart, charted in over 23 countries Apple Music and 10 countries on iTunes, all songs on the EP occupied top 6 of Nigeria Apple Music.

Ma Lo and All Over are eligible for gold certification in South Africa
Ma Lo is the highest Peaking female song on UK, US, Germany, Canada, Netherlands and Italy Airplay Charts, meaning its the most played Nigerian female song on those countries.

Ma Lo became the first song by a female act to debut on Billboard World Digital Sales chart
All Over became the highest Peaking Nigerian female song of all time on France Airplay Chart Top 200.
Tiwa Savage in 2017 earned 34 award nominations and won 15 awards.

2018
Tiwa Savage released 3 major hits that year Tiwa's Vibe, Lova Lova and Get It Now Remix.
Get It Now Remix is the first Nigerian female single to get an exclusive Tidal release via Roc Nation coverage.
Get It Now Remix is the first female artist single to debut on US iTunes.

Lova Lova became the most streamed female song on @Spotify and @pandoramusic 2018
Lova Lova debuted on Top 200 Germany and UK Airplay Charts being the only female act to debut there in 2018.
Lova Lova became the first female single to debut on Deezer Top 200 UK, US and Mexico.

In 2018, She wrote history

Tiwa Savage became the first Nigerian female act to headline Global Citizen Festival alongside Beyoncé & Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, Wizkid, D'Banj and more
Performed in front of a 80,000 crowd for more than 45 minutes.

In 2018, She wrote history Tiwa Savage became the first Nigerian female act to headline Global Citizen Festival alongside Beyoncé & Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, Wizkid, D'Banj and morePerformed in front of a 80,000 crowd for more than 45 minutes.

In the same 2018, She created another history, "The Savage Tour" Tiwa Savage became the first African female act to headline a concert in Indigo The O2 and sold out singly handed. This is one of the biggest moments especially for female artists, she set up the standard.

In the same 2018, She created another history, "The Savage Tour" Tiwa Savage became the first African female act to headline a concert in Indigo The O2 and sold out singly handed. This is one of the biggest moments especially for female artists, she set up the standard.

The same 2018, She wrote another major history. Tiwa Savage became the first Nigerian female act to win an MTV Europe Music Award (MTV EMA) for Best African Act category
Another biggest momenttfor Female artists in Afrobeats history
She bagged 34 nominations and won 17 awards.