{"id":277900,"date":"2026-02-11T02:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277900\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T02:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:10:08","slug":"tems-makes-history-as-first-african-female-artiste-with-7-entries-on-billboard-hot-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277900\/","title":{"rendered":"Tems makes history as first African female artiste with 7 entries on Billboard Hot 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Tems-makes-history-as-first-African-female-artiste-with-7-entries-on-Billboard-Hot-100-2021168?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/89276776.295.jpg\" alt=\"Tems is a Nigerian singer\" title=\"Tems is a Nigerian singer\" width=\"295\" height=\"156\" \/> <\/a>Tems is a Nigerian singer<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Grammy-winning Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has become the first African female artiste to have seven entries on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone came after her song \u201cWhat You Need\u201d debuted at number 93 on this week\u2019s Billboard Hot 100, bringing her total entries to seven.<\/p>\n<p>With this achievement, Tems now ties her compatriot Burna Boy and South African group Seether as the African artists with the most Billboard Hot 100 entries, with seven each.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Tems made history as the first African artiste to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with her collaborative hit with Future and Drake, \u201cWait For U.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tems is expected to break the tie with Burna Boy and Seether soon, as J Cole\u2019s \u201cBunce Road Blues\u201d featuring her and Future is set to debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tems is a Nigerian singer Grammy-winning Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has become the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-277900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}