GAISE Baba’s ‘No Turning Back II’ featuring Lawrence Oyor has become the high-est charting gospel song in the five-year history of TurnTable Chart.
The song recently charted at No. 4 on the TurnTable Top 100, which is Nigeria’s biggest chart that collates data across streaming, TV, and radio platforms.
The song, which combines catchy inspirational lyrics with danceable production, has enjoyed huge commercial success, especially on TikTok, where it has gone vi-ral.
‘No Turning Back II’, which is a re-imagination of the classic hymn “I have decided to follow Jesus”, is the second gospel song to enjoy huge mainstream success in 2025 after Lawrence Oyor’s ‘Favour’, which blew up in the first quarter.
The growing success of gospel music in Nigeria shows a resurgence in its commer-cialism after the advent of streaming led to more pop artists, which reduced the visibility of gospel. Now, Tik Tok is playing an active role in popularising gospel music, especially among a young population of listeners.
There has been a noticeable rise in the consumption of gospel music on streaming platforms. Nigeria’s Gen Z’s gospel music streams on Spotify have grown by 1228 per cent between 2022 and 2024. Similarly, Christian podcast streams on Spotify increased by 482 per cent between 2022 and 2024.
Earlier in the year, Sumisola Agbebi became the first gospel artist to reach 1 mil-lion monthly listeners on Spotify.
Also, gospel stars like Moses Bliss and Mercy Chinwo ranked high on the list of most-streamed Nigerian artists on YouTube in the first quarter of 2025.
