{"id":11826,"date":"2018-01-25T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T10:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=11826"},"modified":"2018-01-25T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T10:44:39","slug":"11826-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/11826-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonebwoy And Shatta Wale Make BBC Record For Most Popular Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Songs by two of Ghana&#8217;s dancehall giants, Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy have been ranked most popular songs by BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking is by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in its poll of the three most popular songs in Ghana last week.<\/p>\n<p>According to the international media house, two songs from the self-proclaimed dancehall king, Charles Nii Armah Mensah aka Shatta Wale and one song from Livingstone Etse Satekla aka Stonebwoy, were the most popular songs in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The songs from Shatta Wale, \u201cDem Confuse\u201d and hit song, \u201cFreedom\u201d took the second and first place respectively in the most popular songs list.<\/p>\n<p>Stonebwoy\u2019s \u201cHero\u201d took the third place of the most popular songs played in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking video was first discovered by experienced sports journalist, Gary Al-Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Shatta Wale got word of it and shared it on his social media pages wall.<\/p>\n<p>The dancehall artist on Facebooke captioned his post, \u201cBBC No.1 song in Ghana!!! Discovered by yours truly SM sports presenter Gary Al- Smith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>On Twitter however, he wrote; &#8220;BBC said it ooo not me&#8221;.<\/h3>\n<p>Both artistes really started this year on a good note.<\/p>\n<p>Stonebwoy, who got married last year is expecting his wife to put to bed soon. His Epistles Of Mama album has been ranked the second best in the whole world.<\/p>\n<p>Shatta on the other hand is doing well from both sides. His SM family is doing quite well in the entertainment industry with his Militants releasing their music videos on the same day. The videos are no doubts doing great in the industry already with Captan hitting over 1K views on Youtube.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/shattawalegh\/status\/954869049980325888<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songs by two of Ghana&#8217;s dancehall giants, Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy have been ranked most popular songs by BBC. 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