The video to Buga, the hit track of Nigerian singer, Kizz Daniel, reported to be the third most-streamed song of 2022 has garnered over 3.8 million views in barely two days of release.
The visuals to ‘Buga’, which he featured Tekno was posted to YouTube in the evening of Wednesday, June 22, 2022, and as of the
Friday, June 24, it already had over 3.8 million views.
The video which had a carnival theme features Kizz Daniel, Tekno, and skit maker, Oga Sabinus.
Recall that the song was an instant hit on social media, with several people recording videos of themselves dancing to the song.
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Notable personalities that have publicly danced to the song include Liberian President, George Weah; a former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos.
The song was also played several times at the recent presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress. On May 19, 2022, a music app, Shazam, took to their Twitter page to announce ‘Buga’ as the most Shazamed song in the world.
It was also the first song to amass one million streams within 24 hours on Boomplay Music.
Kizz Daniel also started a ‘dance challenge’ for the song and several people across the world participated in it. The singer went on to give some of the participants a N1m naira cash prize.
Following the release of the visuals, Kizz Daniel said he would like to perform the song alongside a mass choir at this year’s world cup in Qatar, which is scheduled to commence in November this year.
“God I want to perform BUGA for World Cup with a mass choir,” he wrote.
