Top Nigerian singer, Davido, has thanked American RnB singer, Chris Brown, who recently collaborated with him on a song.

 

The song titled, Blow My Mind has started achieving great feats as the video hit one million views in 12 hours.

 

The DMW boss in a recent post on Instagram, thanked Chris Brown for dancing in the rain for his music video.

 

Davido revealed that the video has now hit two million views on YouTube in 24 hours.  

British-born Nigerian writer, TADE THOMPSON has won the Arthur C Clarke award, the UK’s most prestigious prize for science fiction novels at a ceremony in Foyles bookshop in London.

 

THOMPSON’s novel, Rosewater, an alien invasion novel set in a future Africa, was submitted alongside 124 other novels, the highest number ever submitted for the prize, to emerge as the winner.

 

Rosewater bested five other books including including AHMED SAADAWI’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, SUE BURKE’s Semiosis, YOON HA LEE’s Revenant Gun, SIMON STÅLENHAG’s illustrated novel, The Electric State and ALIYA WHITELEY’s The Loosening Skin.

 

The award came with a trophy and the £2,019 prize.

 ‘Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé’ has been nominated for six Emmys, and a win in most of those categories would go to her personally.

Reports say Beyoncé would share in the award for co-director, writer and co-musical director as well as a producer.

The Netflix film is up for outstanding variety special (pre-recorded), directing, writing, music direction, production design and costumes.

Beyoncé had previously been nominated for four Emmys but has not yet won one.

Her prior nominations were for a variety of special and variety special directing.

 

 

 

 

Pop singer, TAYLOR SWIFT is the world’s top-earning celebrity, according to an annual countdown of highest-paid stars.

 

Forbes estimates the 29-year-old singer made 185 million dollars in pre-tax earnings in the year beginning 1 June 2018.

 

SWIFT last topped Forbes’ Celebrity 100 in 2016, when her pre-tax earnings were calculated to be 170 million dollars.

 

Social media and reality TV star, KYLIE JENNER is ranked second on the list with an estimated pre-tax pay packet of 170 million dollars.

 

Rapper, KANYE WEST earns third place in this year’s rundown, having made an estimated 150 million dollars.

 

Singer, ED SHEERAN, who is placed fifth in the list, is the highest-ranking Briton with estimated pre-tax earnings of 110 million dollars.