Video: Rihanna crowns Davido’s ‘Unavailable’ Song of the Year

Pop Superstar, Rihanna has named Davido’s Unavailable as her best song in 2023 during an interview at her Fenty Puma launch yesterday.

Bad Gyal Ri Ri was asked by Complex what is her top album to which she replied, “album of the year? Am I an album girl? I am a streaming single girl”. Then without giving another thought Rihanna said ‘Unavailable, on repeat, that and ‘MNIKE’.” She then went on to spell out the name of the latter.

Davido quoted a video of Rihanna endorsing his song on Twitter and said, “My girl RI RI.”

At the Fenty, The Creeper launch Rihanna was spotted doing the ‘Unavailable’ TikTok dance challenge perfecting her hand swings with members of her team.

Just last September Rihanna gifted Davido a pair of the new shoes.

Released on May 12, 2023 as the second single from Davido’s Grammy nominated album Timeless, Unavailable peaked at number 1 on the UK Afrobeats Singles Chart for five weeks and No. 3 on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart.

Unavailable was the most streamed Afrobeats song on Spotify in 2023. 

The other song Rihanna mentioned as her 2023 favourite was South African artists Tyler ICU And Tumelo.za’s ‘Mnike’; an amapiano single that has taken the South African music scene and the world by storm.

Released on April 28, 2023, under Sony Music Entertainment Africa (with an exclusive license from New Money Gang Records), the track also features DJ Maphorisa, Nandipha808, Ceeka RSA, and Tyron Dee.

MNIKE peaked at the top of the Billboard South Africa Songs chart and peaked at No. 8 on the UK Afrobeats chart.

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