Award winning Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie is leading a global poll organized by Billboard to select an act to feature on American rapper Cardi B’s next project.

Billboard took to their page to conduct a poll after the “Wap” crooner successfully secures the top spot of the hot 100 with her new joint #WAP.

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Billboard paired acts like Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Lil Nas X, Charlie Puth, Roddy Ricch, Rosalia, BTS and a number of others but Sarkodie topped the poll.

The rapper came out with an extraordinary 70.3% of the total vote with the second place going to BTS, a South-Korean boy band, with just 9.15%. Nicki Minaj came at 4th place.

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We sure cannot wait to have a listen to the song. Are you ready for a Cardi B featuring Sarkodie Song?

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Naira Marley has been rated as the number one most watched homegrown artist in Nigeria leading the pack in a Billboard complied list.

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The list dubbed ‘The most-watched homegrown artists across Africa’ sought to unearth the top five artistes in 2019 some countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Algeria and others based on their views.

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Naira Marley topped with 17.6 million views on his his music video followed by Davido with 11.67 million views on his song Fall. Burna Boy placed third with 9.6 Million views, Mercy Chinwo and Kizz Daniel occupied the 4th and 5th position.

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SM Boss, Charles Nii Armah ‘Shatta Wale‘ Mensah Jr. has been ranked as the top most musician in Ghana by music chart ranking company Billboard.

Shatta’s stars must be aligned this year as the rank is not the only good news he has received over the last few weeks. He was recently featured on BBC and had his face slapped over Times Square in New York.

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Shatta took to Instagram to blow his own horns are Billboard placed him as number one musician in Ghana in relation to the country’s Radio Airplay, Sales Data and Streaming Data.

The self acclaimed dancehall king however said it was sad to have the world recognize him as the best but his homeland sees him as the least.

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“The world says am No1 through statistics but Ghana music industry says am number Last …Na dat matter we deh try settle since 1960😂😂😂😂 Big uo(up) every shatta Movement fan”. he wrote.

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BET award winning act, Sarkodie has landed his first entry onto Billboard World Chart becoming the first African rapper to achieve such mark.

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Sarkodie came in 48th on Billboard’s Social 50, a chart recognizing artists worldwide for their social media influence.

The Billboard Social 50 is a popularity chart which ranks the most active musical artists on the world’s leading social networking services.

Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Next Big Sound, is based collectively on each artist’s weekly additions of friends, fans and followers, along with artist website views and streaming media.

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The chart initially only retrieved its data from YouTube, Vevo,  Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and iLike to create its ranking, but in November 2012 was expanded to include SoundCloud and Instagram. Data from Vine and Tumblr were added to the chart in June 2015.

Fans of the talented rapper has already taken to twitter to troll colleague rapper M.anifest and arch-rival Shatta wale.

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