This Year (Blessings)
by Victor Thompson (featuring Gunna)

Album: single release only (2023)
Charted: 43
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Songfacts®:

  • Throughout this song, Victor Thompson showers gratitude upon The Lord for every blessing in his life, and manifests God's future blessings.
  • Thompson sings mainly in English with some Nigerian Pidgin and Yoruba words (Yoruba is a language spoken in West Africa, particularly in Nigeria).
  • Thompson wrote the declarative, prayerful anthem himself and teamed up with his duo partner, Ehis D Greatest, to bring it to life. Sam Duke and the artist's wife, Henrietta Thompson, produced the track.
  • "This Year (Blessings)" was released as a single on January 20, 2023. Just over six months later, it went Gold in France after grossing the equivalent of 15 million streams in the country. It reached #8 on the French singles chart.
  • On September 28, 2023, American rapper Gunna brought out Victor Thompson to perform this song live at his sold-out concert in Los Angeles. Afterwards, the two artists decided to collaborate with Ehis "D" Greatest on a remix of "This Year." Released on October 13, 2023, the new version charted around the world.

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