The video for "Tell Everybody" went live Monday (Aug 17), and it is one of the biggest tracks attached to ORIADÉ so far. Davido walks into a high-ceilinged mansion in a black velvet tuxedo, then switches into a sky-blue suit with gold-trimmed lapels and dark glasses. For a stretch of the runtime he wears an embellished cap cut like a crown. Leon Thomas holds the other end of the room in a cream-patterned jacket and a black leather durag, while dancers in Victorian couture work the ballroom floor under a crystal chandelier.

The song has been available since July 31, when it arrived as the focus track on Davido's sixth studio album. ORIADÉ runs 13 tracks and 36 minutes, issued through Davido Music Worldwide under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment UK. The title comes from the Yoruba words for destiny and crown, which explains the coronation imagery threaded through the rollout. The release date marks 15 years since Davido began putting out records. "Tell Everybody" is the softest thing on the album, an Afro-R&B exchange where he asks to be claimed in public and Thomas answers that he has run out of reasons to stay quiet.

By the time the video appeared, two full weeks of streaming data had already come in. On the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart dated August 15, twelve songs from ORIADÉ charted at once, pushing Davido to 56 career entries on a list that launched in April 2022. Leading them was "B4 B4," which entered at No. 6 on 626,000 official U.S. streams during the July 31 to August 6 tracking week, per Luminate. "Tell Everybody" came in at No. 11.

The rest of the album spread out behind it. "Amazing Grace" with Black Sherif landed at No. 17, and "Yaya" with the French-Malian pop star Aya Nakamura came in at No. 24. ORIADÉ opens on "On The Road" and closes on "My Light" with Llona, and the guest list in between runs through Mayorkun, FOLA, No11, JAZZWRLD and GL_CEEJAY. At 13 tracks it is the shortest album Davido has constructed, following the sprawling 5ive, which peaked at No. 2 on World Albums in 2025.

Afrobeats releases now reach American new-music slates without a domestic co-sign attached, the way Ayra Starr did on the August 14 slate alongside Erykah Badu and Trippie Redd. That leaves "Tell Everybody" carrying two stars who arrived from different systems, each with a different thing to prove.

Thomas walked into the collaboration with less riding on it than almost anyone Davido could have called. He arrived at the 68th Grammy Awards on February 1 as the most nominated R&B artist of the night, with six nods, and left with two statuettes. He took Best R&B Album for MUTT and Best Traditional R&B Performance for "Vibes Don't Lie." MUTT became the first album by a solo male artist to win the R&B album category since D'Angelo's Voodoo. The night gave Thomas three career Grammys, counting the Best R&B Song he took as a co-writer on SZA's "Snooze."

The commercial follow-through was immediate. His Spotify listenership jumped roughly 1,600 percent in the weeks after the ceremony, and the title track from MUTT reached No. 1 on Billboard's Radio Songs chart after a 35-week climb. By April 6 he was telling interviewers he had about 30 songs finished for the next album, including sessions with Pharrell Williams in Paris. He is 33, came up on Broadway stages and a Nickelodeon soundstage, and spent years producing for other people first.

None of that arrived through a major-label star system. MUTT came out in September 2024 on EZMNY Records, the imprint Ty Dolla $ign launched with Motown, and Thomas was its first signing. The album took 35 weeks to reach the top of Radio Songs and stayed on the charts for 52. He toured it through North America, Europe and Australia on the Mutts Don't Heel run, and reissued it in May 2025 as MUTT Deluxe: HEEL. The Grammy campaign that followed was built on a record already two years into its life.

The origin story here is stranger than the standard label introduction. Davido and Thomas met at the Grammy Awards, got to talking, and found a shared Seventh-day Adventist faith underneath the industry small talk. Davido studied business administration at Oakwood University, the Adventist HBCU in Huntsville, Alabama, before dropping out to make beats.

He was born in Atlanta in 1992 and raised in Lagos, and the split has shaped every stage of the career that followed. Five Grammy nominations have come without a win. More than 30 million followers make him the most-followed Afrobeats artist on social media. Thomas grew up in Brooklyn on the opposite arrangement, building a résumé of credits that outran his own name for the better part of a decade.

Thomas thanked God from the podium in February and called the win a miracle of endurance. The record they made together is a love song with a confessional structure, one voice asking for the announcement and the other admitting he cannot hold it in. That sits closer to testimony than to the flirtation that usually powers a single like this.

"Tell Everybody" follows "I Know Who I Be" and "Gimme Dat Ting" into single treatment. The mansion, the couture, and the crown cap give the album's quietest song its most maximalist presentation. Davido has run his own imprint since 2016 and licenses through a major rather than handing over the catalog, an arrangement that is now the default ambition at his level. It is also the reason the terms of a deal make more news than the deal itself.

The rest of the year is already spoken for. Davido finished a 42-date 5IVE ALIVE tour across 12 countries and four continents, made his Coachella debut in April, and turned up on the official FIFA World Cup 2026 album. Thomas has 30 songs waiting and a follow-up to defend.

"Tell Everybody" is at No. 11 with a ballroom behind it and four months of chart weeks left in the year.