Album sales stood at 31,500, individual song sales added up to 33,100 and individual streams amounted to 18.7 million. In fourth place was the debut of Coldplay’s “Music of the Spheres,” with 57,900 units. 3 in its seventh week, with a still-strong 82,600 album-equivalent units. So in a way, it’s just trying to make sense of things, saying what we feel and what we see.Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy” fell to No. And there is a lot of trouble, but there’s also so much positivity and so much great life happening. “ is our reaction to the perceived negativity that’s everywhere. There’s so much life bursting out on the planet. Every day is great and every day is terrible…It just feels kind of free.
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In an interview with Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1, Chris Martin talked about what inspired the album: On the track, the chorus features a harmony between Coldplay’s band leader Chris Martin and Nigerian Afropop singer Tiwa Savage as the backing vocal. Èkó was the name the state bore before it was renamed Lagos by the Portuguese. Èkó is the Yoruba name for Lagos, a state in southwest Nigeria.
Èkó is the third track on the second half of the album. His works attracted wide interest and were popular throughout the Igboland, eventually earning him the title of “father of Igbo church music”.ĭuring the civil war, Whyte’s songs were popular as a source of courage and hope. Whyte performed sacred compositions inspired by Methodist Church hymns and Wesleyan doctrinal philosophy. Whyte dedicated much of his life to the betterment and education of lepers who suffered the same illness as he once did. In 1949, after 34 years of ill health, Whyte was finally cured and discharged by Davey as “clean”. Whyte was encouraged by Davey, who took him on village survey tours to collect various traditional sounds. In 1932, he was transferred to Uzuakoli Leprosy Hospital, Bende Division, Eastern Nigeria, where he met doctor-reverend-musician T.F.
In the early 1920s, he was sent to Port Harcourt General Hospital where he developed his talent in music and went on to form a vocalist band with forty other lepers. In 1919, he was diagnosed with leprosy after symptoms were first noticed in 1918.
He was born in Abonnema in the old Niger Delta region in 1905. “You that is of God, what are we going to say? The lyrics translate from Igbo to English as: The sample is from Harcourt Whyte’s song titled ‘Otuto Nke Chukwu N’ojija Aha Ya’. Interestingly, the song begins with an Igbo gospel hymn intro. The song is a tribute to Scott Hutchison, the lead singer of Frightened Rabbit who took his life in May 2018 after struggling with depression. “Champion of the World” was released on November 20th.
It was released on 24 October 2019 alongside Orphans.