Asake now shares a Spotify record with Burna Boy, and it took him a lot less time to get there. His latest album, M$NEY, has passed 500 million streams on the platform, making it the fourth Asake project to clear that line.
The milestone was flagged on October 8, 2026 by the chart account Album Talks, which posted that M$NEY “becomes his 4TH project to surpass the mark on the platform.” It joins Mr. Money With The Vibe, Work Of Art and Lungu Boy on that list.
That puts Asake level with Burna Boy as the Nigerian artists holding the most projects above 500 million Spotify streams, with four each.
For an artist whose debut album only arrived in 2022, sitting beside Burna on any streaming leaderboard says a lot about how fast this run has moved.
The new number did not come out of nowhere. M$NEY opened with the biggest African album debut in Spotify history, pulling 55.98 million global streams in its first week.
Big openings and long runs are different beasts, though. Plenty of albums spike in week one and then fade, so hitting half a billion suggests listeners kept coming back well after the launch buzz cooled off.
The path here has been steady. Mr. Money With The Vibe, released in 2022 through Olamide’s YBNL label, turned tracks like “Terminator,” “Joha” and the “Sungba” remix featuring Burna Boy into fixtures across Lagos and beyond.
Work Of Art followed in 2023 with “Lonely At The Top,” and Lungu Boy arrived in 2024 carrying features from Wizkid and Travis Scott.
Each album leaned on the same blend of Fuji chants, amapiano log drums and street pop hooks that made Asake stand out in the first place. M$NEY reaching the same mark as its predecessors suggests that formula still has plenty of pull.
There is another way to read the tie, and it depends on how you weigh longevity. Burna Boy has spent well over a decade building his catalogue, picking up a Grammy for Twice As Tall along the way and filling stadiums in Europe and the United States.
Asake has matched his count of 500 million stream projects in roughly four years, which is quick by any standard.
Burna’s fans will point to his longer resume and global touring history, while Asake supporters will argue the speed is the real headline.
Spotify milestones are not the whole picture for African music, where YouTube, Audiomack and Boomplay also carry serious weight.
Still, Spotify has become the go-to scoreboard for global reach, and both camps watch these numbers closely.
What makes the current standoff interesting is that it probably will not last. M$NEY is still climbing, neither artist shows any sign of slowing down, and the next project from either camp to hit half a billion will break the tie.
