Maki is one of 2024’s breakthrough hitmakers in the Philippines. As of writing, he currently holds the second spot among Filipino solo artists with 7.6 million monthly listeners on Spotify with his latest song – ‘Namumula’ at 39th spot on Spotify’s Daily Top Songs . Dabbling in alternative city-pop with the songs he writes and performs, he shares his music to the world with easy and melodic tunes that surely capture the attention and hearts of his exponentially growing audience.
Achievements:
Starting with the surge of streams from his first hit song “Saan?”, with currently 112 million streams on Spotify and counting, his discography continues to grow in millions.
His most recent release “Dilaw” is gaining milestone after milestone – #1 on Spotify Top and Viral Charts for both Philippines and Global. Now at 114M streams, “Dilaw” has become the fastest OPM song to achieve 100M in 88 days and is also earning it’s spot in history as the 3rd OPM song to make it to the Spotify Global Charts, one of the OPM songs with the biggest single-day streams, and the song with most days having over 1 million streams on Spotify at more than a month.
His international presence is also growing as “Dilaw” ranked in Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada Spotify Viral and Daily Top charts, to mention a few. “Dilaw” was recently featured in we SEA you playlist – a South-East Asia focused playlist. Apart from topping the Spotify charts, “Dilaw” also earned its way into the inaugural Billboard PH Top Songs and Hot 100 Charts (#1) for the first 4 weeks and Apple Music Top 100 (#4), all in less than 3 years under his belt.
What’s next for Maki? He recently released his new single, “Namumula”, that topped Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist (and also the cover of the playlist). Maki is set to hold his two-day sold out first solo concert in New Frontier Theater this November 29-30, 2024.
