Olamidé

The self-titled chapter. When an artist puts their own name on the cover, they're telling you the story has reached the part where it's about who they are. Olamidé arrived fourteen years after a debut that needed a young Wizkid on the hook to cross over — and this time "Kai!" reunites them as peers.

It backed up the boldness with numbers: 19.1 million streams in its opening week on Nigerian Spotify — the third-biggest opening week the platform had recorded in the country — with the album's own tracks briefly filling the entire Spotify and Apple Music Top 10 in Nigeria at once. By year's end, TurnTable Charts ranked it the eighth-biggest Nigerian album of 2025: 148.5 million streams, 22 weeks charting, three of them at No. 1.

Seventeen tracks stretch from Bariga doctrine to international guests: Dr. Dre and Spinall on "Indika," Popcaan on "Rain," Asake and Seyi Vibez on "99." The archive doesn't end here. It just finally carries his name on the spine.