Posted by Samuel on Mon 23rd Feb, 2026 - tori.ng
The Love Me Jeje crooner recently hit 38.3 million listeners on the platform, surpassing Tyla with 38.2 million listeners.
Temilade Openiyi, the Nigerian singer, who is popularly known as Tems, has overtaken South African star Tyla to become the African artist with the highest number of monthly listeners on Spotify.
The Love Me Jeje crooner recently hit 38.3 million listeners on the platform, surpassing Tyla with 38.2 million listeners.
Tems’ leap was due to new releases and features including ‘What You Need’ (Colour version), and ‘Bounce Road Blues’ with J.Cole and Future as well as her collaborative hit with Dave, ‘Raindance,’ which is still making waves.
She is also poised to break and even surpass the all-time highest monthly listeners by an African artist set by Tyla at 40 million listeners.
Tems remains the most-streamed female African artist on the platform with 4.7 billion streams across all credits.