For weeks, Afrobeats fans kept asking the same thing: where was Asake in all the Detty December plans? He answered it himself today with an Instagram post confirming he’ll headline FutureFest in Lagos on December 20 and perform his latest album M$NEY at the Oasis Ground venue.
The Lagos festival made it official too, naming him as a headline performer for the night. It puts the 2x Grammy-nominated star right back home at the peak of the holiday season, when the diaspora flies in and the city’s party calendar fills up fast.
The timing lines up neatly. Asake only recently wrapped his In God We Trust World Tour, a run of arena dates across North America and Europe that included sold-out nights at London’s O2 Arena and Paris’ Accor Arena.
M$NEY, his fourth studio album, arrived in May 2026 as a 13-track record built around gratitude, prosperity, spirituality and ambition. The guest list leans global, with DJ Snake, Tiakola and Kabza De Small all on board.
The numbers followed. The album went to number one in more than 19 countries, Nigeria included, and climbed to number eight in the U.S., while “Gratitude” topped Spotify Nigeria and hit number one in eight countries on Apple Music.
That run pushed Asake to number 15 on Kworb’s ranking of global digital artists. For context, that puts him in the same company as Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber, Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.
There’s a different way to look at this booking, though. Asake has spent the last few years turning into an arena act abroad, and for a Lagos audience that watched him come up, the real interest is less about the stats and more about what a hometown crowd actually gets from a M$NEY set.
His track record at home is hard to argue with. His debut, Mr. Money With the Vibe from 2022, was the highest charting Nigerian debut album in history at the time, and the follow-ups Work Of Art and Lungu Boy brought hits like “Lonely At The Top,” “Remember” and “Wave.
Lungu Boy became the longest-running number one album in Nigerian chart history and still sits among the Top 20 most-streamed Nigerian albums ever.
The 2024 tour that carried its name sold out Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center and the O2 Arena.
Musically, he’s built his lane by mixing fújì, Afropop and Amapiano with Yoruba-inspired storytelling.
That blend earned him Best African Music Performance nominations at the 66th and 67th Grammy Awards for “Amapiano” with Olamide and “MMS” with Wizkid.
For now, the confirmed details are the date, the venue and the album he’s bringing to the stage. Anything beyond that, from surprise guests to how much of the older catalogue makes the setlist, hasn’t been revealed yet, and Lagos is already guessing.
