Victony’s “Slick” has now spent four straight weeks at Number 1 on the Official UK Afrobeats Chart, and in the same stretch it became the Lagos rapper-singer’s first-ever Number 1 on Nigeria’s own official singles chart. Two different chart systems, two different markets, the same record at the top – that combination is rare enough for an Afrobeats single right now that it’s worth breaking down properly.
The UK Numbers
On the Official Charts Company’s Afrobeats Chart for the week of 9-15 August 2026, “Slick” sits at Number 1 with a peak of 1 and four weeks on the chart, having first reached the top around 24 July. It is not coasting at the summit either: that same week’s top five was largely reshuffled underneath it, with Tyla’s “That Girl” at Number 2, a new entry from Davido, Mayorkun and Fola’s “B4 B4” at Number 3, Odeal featuring Jorja Smith’s “Coming Home” at Number 4, and BNXN & Asake’s “Eja Meja” rounding out the top five. Seyi Vibez’s “GTA,” the Burna Boy-executive-produced preview single off his forthcoming project, landed at Number 10 the same week.
The song is also climbing outside the UK. According to TooXclusive, “Slick” has reached a new peak of Number 3 on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart, a separate ranking from the UK one and a signal that the record’s reach isn’t limited to the UK’s Afrobeats-specific chart infrastructure. Nigerian outlet TalkTalkNigeria, reporting on the same week’s chart run, additionally places the song in the top 10 of the Global Shazam Chart – a data point that hasn’t yet been independently corroborated by a second outlet at the time of writing, so treat it as a single-sourced figure rather than a confirmed cross-platform fact.
Nigeria’s Own Chart Says the Same Thing
What makes this run notable isn’t just the UK number. Per TurnTable Charts, “Slick” jumped from a Number 73 debut to Number 1 on Nigeria’s Official Top 100 in a single week – Victony’s first-ever Number 1 on the chart and his 13th top-10 entry overall. Music news outlet ArtistDirect independently reported the same climb around the same date, describing it as a first full-week rocket to the top of Nigeria’s national chart. TurnTable later reported the song holding for a third consecutive week at Number 1 in Nigeria, with Ayo Maff’s “Lifestyle (Ya Man)” entering the same week’s chart at Number 9.
A song simultaneously anchoring the UK’s dedicated Afrobeats chart and topping Nigeria’s own national singles chart for the first time in an artist’s career is a specific, fairly uncommon shape of success. Most Afrobeats records that dominate the UK chart built their audience abroad first and caught up at home later, or vice versa. “Slick” appears to be doing both roughly at once.
How “Slick” Got Here
The single dropped on 8 July 2026 (Audiomack’s regional listing shows 9 July, likely a platform-upload discrepancy) via Victony’s own Outlawville imprint, under exclusive global license to Encore Recordings – the same label that put out his 2022 breakout EP “Outlaw.” Production credits go to Ozedikus, best known for his work with Rema, and Dera the Boy, who has worked with Victony since that 2022 EP, according to production-credit listings on Hipstrumentals. The track blends electronic textures with organic instrumentation over a bouncy Afropop rhythm and has drawn more than 8.3 million plays on Audiomack alone.
This is not Victony’s first time at the top of a UK Afrobeats-adjacent chart. His 2022 single “Soweto,” featuring Rema and Tempoe, went viral on TikTok and won Best Recording of the Year at the 2023 Headies. But “Slick” is the first time he’s held a UK chart Number 1 for this long while also topping the equivalent chart back home – a distinction that matters for how his career gets talked about going forward.
The Bigger Picture
Victony, born Anthony Ebuka Victor in Ojo, Lagos, has had a public and well-documented career arc: a 2021 car accident that put him in a wheelchair and required surgery, a return to performing later that year, the “Soweto” breakout in 2022, a 2023 joint-venture deal between Avex USA Publishing and Coup D’Etat Music, and his 2024 sophomore album “Stubborn.” Wikipedia currently lists him as independent, and the “Slick” release, going out through his own Outlawville imprint under license rather than a straight major-label deal, fits that framing – a Nigerian artist running his own release infrastructure while still landing on Billboard, Shazam’s global chart, and the UK’s official Afrobeats ranking in the same month.
That’s the part of this story that matters beyond the chart trivia. Afrobeats records topping the UK chart is no longer news by itself – the genre’s had a dedicated UK chart for a few years now and Nigerian and Nigerian-diaspora acts sit at the top of it constantly. What’s less common is an independently-released, Nigerian-imprint single doing that in the UK while simultaneously becoming its artist’s first-ever chart-topper at home. If that pattern holds for other artists running their own imprints rather than routing everything through a major, it says something about how much of the current Afrobeats wave is actually being built and monetized independently, one distribution and licensing deal at a time, rather than through a single dominant major-label pipeline.
