Victony Slick: 12 straight weeks at No. 1 on the Official Afrobeats Chart
The Victony Slick run on the Official Afrobeats Chart has reached a 12th week at No. 1 in the UK, with every week of the song’s chart life so far spent at the top. Here is what the Official Charts Company data actually shows, who is chasing it, and how to read the streak.
By Editorial Team
What we know
- No. 1 again (FACT, Official Charts Company). “Slick” by Victony is No. 1 on the Official Afrobeats Chart for the week of 4–10 October 2026, holding the position it had last week.
- Twelve weeks, twelve No. 1s (FACT). The song’s Official Charts page lists 12 weeks on the Afrobeats chart and 12 weeks at No. 1, running from the chart dated 25 July 2026 to the chart dated 10 October 2026. In other words, it entered at the top and has not left.
- Label (FACT). Official Charts lists the release on Encore Recordings.
- Main singles chart (FACT). On the overall Official Singles Chart Top 100, “Slick” has one week on record, at No. 99 on the chart dated 30 July 2026.
- What we are not claiming. We have not found an Official Charts statement calling this a record run for the Afrobeats chart, so we do not describe it as one.
How the Victony Slick streak compares with this week’s top 10
The Official Afrobeats Chart ranks the UK’s biggest Afrobeats songs over a seven-day period, based on sales and streams, and is compiled by the Official Charts Company. That matters for reading the Victony Slick figure: a 12-week run means the song has beaten every rival on combined UK consumption every single week since it arrived, not just on one platform.
The chasing pack this week, according to the chart page, looks like this:
- No. 2: “B4 B4” by Davido, Mayorkun and Fola, steady at No. 2 in its ninth week. It has peaked at No. 2.
- No. 3: “Heaven Baby” by Ayra Starr featuring Zayn, up from No. 6 in its seventh week. Its peak is also No. 2.
- No. 4: “Gratitude” by Asake, down one place from No. 3.
- No. 5: “Pile” by Mauvais Djo, down from No. 4 in its 11th week. Mauvais Djo also holds No. 7 with “Maladie”.
- No. 6: Rema’s “Oh No”, down one in only its third week, after peaking at No. 2.
- Nos. 8–10: Tyla’s “That Girl”, Darkoo and Asake’s “That Girl” (a separate entry from Tyla’s), and Seyi Vibez’s “GTA”, which reaches a new peak of No. 10.
The highest new entry is Seyi Vibez’s “Ilome” at No. 13, which gives him two songs in the top 13. Further down, BNXN’s “Online” drops from No. 8 to No. 12 and Kizz Daniel and Young Jonn’s “Owo Oluwa” sits at No. 14.
Why a long No. 1 run happens on this chart
The Afrobeats chart is smaller and more stable than the main UK singles chart, so a song with steady daily streaming can hold the top for weeks even when newer releases arrive with bigger first-week buzz. Several of this week’s challengers have already peaked at No. 2 without getting past “Slick”: “B4 B4”, “Heaven Baby”, “Pile”, “Oh No” and Tyla’s “That Girl” all list a No. 2 peak. That pattern points to consistency rather than one big spike. It also means the gap at the top may be narrower than the streak suggests: the Official Charts page shows positions, not the sales and streaming totals behind them, so we cannot say how close the No. 2 song came this week.
It also explains the gap with the main chart. A song can lead the Afrobeats list and still sit outside the Official Singles Chart Top 100, because the main chart compares it with every genre at once. “Slick” has touched that wider chart only once, at No. 99. For a fuller explanation of the methods, see our guide to how the Afrobeats charts work in the US and the UK, and our Afrobeats chart tracker of every No. 1.
What the chart tells listeners outside the UK
The Official Afrobeats Chart is a UK measure, so it reflects British streaming and sales, including the diaspora audience in London, Manchester, Birmingham and elsewhere. It is not a Nigerian chart. Readers who want the home-market picture should compare it with Nigeria’s official chart, explained in our guide to how the TurnTable charts work.
The top 10 also shows how wide the “Afrobeats” label has become in UK charting. Alongside Nigerian acts, the top seven includes two entries from Mauvais Djo, and South Africa’s Tyla sits at No. 8. If you are unsure where the genre lines fall, our explainer on Afrobeats vs Afrobeat, Afropop and amapiano sets out the differences.
What happens next
- The next Official Afrobeats Chart will show whether “Slick” reaches a 13th week at No. 1, or whether “B4 B4” or “Heaven Baby” finally gets past it.
- Ayra Starr headlines the halftime show at the NFL London game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 11 October, according to NFL.com. We will watch whether that UK exposure shows up in the following weeks’ chart data, but we are not predicting it.
- We will update our Afrobeats chart tracker when the No. 1 changes hands.
More Afrobeats coverage: Afrobeats.
Photo credits: Featured image: Victony. Photo: Abbasheshe, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0). Source.
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