Davido rose to fame after releasing “Dami Duro”, the second single from his debut studio album Omo Baba Olowo (2012). In 2012, Davido won the Next Rated award at The Headies. Between 2013 and 2015, he released a number of hit singles and in January 2016 signed a record deal with Sony Music. He then founded the record label Davido Music Worldwide (DMW), to which acts Dremo, Mayorkun, and Peruzzi have been signed.

In July, he performed on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and was seen in studio with rapper Nas. On August 31, 2020, Davido returned to social media after taking a three-month break to chat with the Grammy Museum on Instagram Live about the rise of Afrobeats and other issues within the industry.

Davido’s single “FEM” Video hit 1.8 Million YouTube views in less than 24 hours, breaking his own record for the fastest Nigerian music video to hit 1 million views on YouTube, a record previously held by his own song Blow My Mind featuring Chris Brown. It peaked at number one on the Nigeria TurnTable Top 50 chart in its second week of eligibility dethroning Wizkid’s ‘Ginger’. The album was released on 13 November 2020.The album features guest appearances from Lil Baby, Nicki Minaj, Nas, Chris Brown and Young Thug, among others. On December 14, 2020 Davido anncounced that his 3rd studio album A better Time has accomplished over 213.2 million streams in one month.