'Afrobeats GOAT!' — Fans react to Davido's PFA awards performance

Nigerian Afrobeat artist David ‘Davido’ Adeleke was the star act as the Professional Footballers' Association awarded the best performers from the 2022/23 season of English football. 

The Nigerian crooner, who also performed at the closing ceremony of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, continued to gain international repute after being selected to perform at the PFA award ceremony at the Lowry Theatre in Manchester, England. 

Davido performed for English football’s biggest dignitaries, including award winners on the night like Manchester City’s Erling Haaland, Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka, and Chelsea’s Lauren James. 

The DMW label chief’s appearances on one of the biggest stages of English football continues to show the penetration of Afrobeats into mainstream markets abroad, and Nigerians all over social media platform X were left in raptures at the performance from “OBO.”

A number of fans called Davido the Afrobeats GOAT for getting to perform at the PFA awards ceremony. 

While others hailed the Osun state native for representing Nigeria on the global stage once again. 

With Nigerian artists like Davido at the World Cup and now the PFA awards ceremony and Burna Boy at the UEFA Champions League final, the Nigerian invasion into other markets is well and truly underway and can only get bigger.