Award-winning singer and songwriter, Kidi, is set to release a remix of his global hit song, ‘Touch it’, with American rapper, Tyga, on February 16, 2021.
The ‘Say you love me’ crooner took to his Twitter page to make the announcement and shared a link for fans who wanted to pre-save the music before the release date.
Several fans shared their excitement as they noted “it is about time” that Kidi release the remixed hit song.
In an earlier interview, the ‘Say Cheese’ crooner speaking about the collaboration with Tyga noted that he was not expecting the feature, therefore, it came as a surprise to him when he found out on social media that he was to collaborate on the song with Tyga.
“Maybe my team knew, but they didn’t tell [me] and decided to surprise me, because I got to know about it like everybody else, on social media. But that’s just one of the many remixes coming”.
Kidi
Meanwhile, the award-winning American rapper Tyga posted a video of himself listening to ‘Touch It’ on his Instagram story. However, the version played was not the same as the original.
Feats of ‘Touch It’
It can be recalled that KiDi released the global chart-topping song, ‘Touch It’ on the 6th May 2021, ahead of the release of his anticipated second album, ‘The Golden Boy’.
‘Touch It’, since its release, has gone beyond African borders. Millions of social media users across the world, especially on TikTok, have created videos dancing to the song and created choreographies for it, among others.
In just five months of its release, ‘Touch It’ set a new record by becoming the most streamed Ghanaian song ever on Spotify. Currently, it has over 37.6 million streams on Spotify. It peaked at number 11 for ‘World Digital Sales’ on the global music ranking platform, Billboard.
The success of the tune on TikTok is mind-blowing. ‘Touch It’ related videos on the social media platform have surpassed 250 million views.
On the official UK Afrobeats chart, the song peaked at number 7. A few weeks after the release of the song, it started charting in 51 countries on Spotify and 49 countries on Apple Music including India, Costa Rica, Columbia, and the Netherlands. The music video for the hit currently has over 18 million views on YouTube.
Kidi, who is signed on the Lynx Entertainment record label since his emergence in the music scene has been consistent with achieving great heights. Soon, one that will go down in record will be his performance at the O2 Arena. KiDi and Kuami Eugene are set to host their concert for the first time at the Indigo O2 arena in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2022.
Kidi in an interview noted that for them to have their own concert at the O2 Indigo Arena in the UK shows growth in their musical Career and that, it is a step to promote Ghanaian music.
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