Social Media Popularity Chart: IWOBI, IGHALO OVERSHADOWED BY DAVIDO, WHIZKID, SAVAGE

DAVIDO – Sports and entertainment rule the world when it comes to popularity especially on social media in terms of followership.

In a randomly selected list, top sport stars like Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Lebron James lead popularity charts across the world ahead of top entertainers like Rihanna, top model Kim Kardashian and others.

Ronaldo remains the most popular with over 365 million followers on Instagram and Twitter while Messi who doesn’t have an official Twitter account has a combined 295 million followers on Instagram and Facebook.

The two football superstars are ahead of Kim Kardashian with 282 million followers and Rihanna with 195 million followers on social media.

Reverse is however, the case in Nigeria with entertainers dominating the popularity scene leaving sport stars to scramble for the crumbs on social medial followership.

Top Nigerian acts like Davido, Whizkid, Tiwa Savage are far more popular than Nigerian sport stars – mostly footballers and Super Eagles stars but their popularity pale into insignificance when compared with Nigerian entertainers.

Davido has just over 28 million followers, Whizkid 20 million, Savage over 16 million on Instagram and Twitter combined. Nigerian sports stars have a lot of catching up to do.

The combined followers of Top-Five most-followed Eagles stars namely Alex Iwobi, Victor Moses, Mikel Obi, Odion Ighalo and Kenneth Omeruo are not up to 10 million! Interestingly, star actress Genevieve Nnaji alone has over 10 million followers.

Others like tennis star Aruna Quadri and female star sprinter Blessing Okagbare accounted for a combined 57 thousand followers on social media.

It will be noted that Everton star Iwobi remains Nigeria’s most popular sports star with just over 2 million followers on Instagram and Twitter combined.

10 SELECTED NIGERIAN STARS
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ALEX IWOBI
Instagram – 1.3m followers
Twitter – 839.3K Followers

VICTOR MOSES
Instagram – 1.1m followers
Twitter – 1.1M followers

MIKEL OBI
Instagram – 900k followers
Twitter – 195.5K Followers

ODION IGHALO
Instagram – 1m followers
Twitter – 830.6K Followers

DAVIDO
Instagram – 19.7m followers
Twitter – 9.1M Followers

WHIZKID
Instagram – 12m followers
Twitter – 8.4M Followers

BURNA BOY
Instagram – 6.4m followers
Twitter – 5.1M Followers

TIWA SAVAGE
Instagram – 12.3m followers
Twitter – 4.8M Followers

FUNKE AKINDELE
Instagram -12.8m followers
Twitter – 1.3M Followers

GENEVIEVE NNAJI
Instagram – 8m followers
Twitter – 2.7M Followers

By Sulaiman Alao

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