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Blaqbonez and Asake Take ‘IKEBE 3000’ to No. 1 on the UK Afrobeats Chart
The Official Afrobeats Chart for 1–7 November 2026 puts ‘IKEBE 3000’ at No. 1, up from No. 2. ‘Heaven Baby’ falls to second. The ‘first rapper’ line is still unchecked.
A rap record is No. 1 on the UK’s Official Afrobeats Chart.
The chart dated 1–7 November 2026 has ‘IKEBE 3000’, Blaqbonez featuring Asake, at No. 1 in its fourth week. It moves up from No. 2. Ayra Starr and ZAYN’s ‘Heaven Baby’ drops to No. 2 after 11 weeks on the chart. Davido, Mayorkun and FOLA’s ‘B4 B4’ rises to No. 3. That is the Official Charts ranking, as logged in HNA’s Intelligence Radar for 2 November and in this week’s charts workbook.
HNA’s week-over-week file agrees on the move at the top: ‘Ikebe 3000’, credited there as Blaqbonez Ft Asake, from 2 to 1. ‘Heaven Baby’, Ayra Starr Ft Zayn, from 1 to 2. ‘B4 B4’, Davido/ Mayorkun/ Fola, from 5 to 3. Spellings follow the chart each source is quoting.
Who else came in
New entries on the Official Afrobeats Chart, in both the radar and the workbook: Double Gee2x’s ‘Ore Agbako’ at No. 10 (the workbook spells the name Double Gee2X), Mavo’s ‘Goyard’ at No. 15, and ‘Cry On You’ at No. 16. The radar credits that last one to Mannywellz. The workbook’s Official Charts line reads Odeal/ Mannywellz. Both put the song at 16.
Further down the same top 20, the workbook has ‘Back 2 U’ by Seyi Vibez at 11, ‘Gta’ at 13, Blaqbonez’s ‘Big Performer’ at 18, and Rema’s ‘Tea’ at 17, down from 16. Asake’s ‘Gratitude’ drops out from No. 3.
Official Afrobeats Chart, places gained
Week-over-week moves in the HNA workbook for the chart dated 1–7 November 2026. New entries have no previous rank, so they are not drawn here.
places
| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Online | 4 |
| B4 B4 | 2 |
| Coachella | 2 |
| Comfort | 2 |
| Ikebe 3000 | 1 |
The ‘first rapper’ line
Afrobeats Head reports that the song had sat at No. 2 for three weeks, and calls Blaqbonez the first rapper to top the chart. HNA has not checked the chart’s full history. Until that check is done, the ‘first’ is Afrobeats Head’s claim, not a finding.
One correction from the same radar: Report 11 said the next Official Afrobeats Chart was due on 6 November. This chart was already live on 1 November.
On Spotify Nigeria, dated 31 October in the workbook, ‘IKEBE 3000’ holds at No. 3, credited Blaqbonez & Asake. The radar’s kworb read has it third with 208,627 streams that day, behind Peruzzi’s ‘INFERNO’ and Seyi Vibez’s ‘BACK 2 U’. The UK No. 1 and the Lagos No. 3 are the same record, on two different charts.
The desk’s own line, marked as analysis in the radar: a rap-led record on top of a UK chart dominated by singers is a marker for Nigerian hip-hop’s export value. That is a reading. The positions above are the facts.
The chart roundup for Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and the US Afrobeats list is a separate story. ‘Inferno’, the record above this one at home, is here.
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