5 Records Laycon Has Set and Broken
BBNaija winner, Laycon is a fast-moving train, which is evident in his achievements in and outside the BBNaija house. Laycon is arguably the highest record-breaking BBNaija housemate so far, most of which will not be possible without his teeming fans.
In this piece, we will go through 5 records Laycon has set and broken so far in no particular order. Shall we?
Laycon’s show, I am Laycon, was the first original series released on Showmax and has broken the record of being the show with the highest first-day streams on the platform.
The first five episodes of the show were released on the 11th of February, 2021 and have made history in barely ten days of its release. This was disclosed by Showmax‘s Public Relations Officer, Mr Onna Okafor.
Not just garnering the highest first-day streams, the show has also maintained the number-one spot on the streaming platform’s most popular category. It was aired in several countries including;
Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
THe BBNaija Season 5 winner broke the last season’s voting records with over 200% increase. In season 4 of the Big Brother Show raked in a total of 240 million votes but laycon topped that with 660 million votes after bringing in 900 million votes.
Despite the mixed reaction Laycon got in the first two day of the show, the fans quickly grew to love him after getting to know who he is and this reflected on his social media pages.
Laycon was the first BBNaija housemates in the show’s entire history to gain 1 million followers while in the house.
Piggybacking of the previous record, Laycon was the first lockdown housemate to be verified both on Instagram and Twitter. He got his instagram verification at below 50k followers.
He was also the first to be verified on Twitter followed closely by Kiddwaya.
Laycon also broke a very rare record of being the first housemate to win 5 consecutive tasks in the BBNaija house. Here is a list of the challenges he won;
Team Game of Thrones (Laycon, Vee and Trikytee)
Team WAW Protects – Ozo, Prince, Laycon and Kiddwaya.
Team Sports Development – Ozo and Laycon
Waw Colourful – Dorathy, Laycon and Vee
Team Payments Links – Ozo and Laycon
Team WAW Protects – Ozo, Prince, Laycon and Kiddwaya
Amatem Game Changer Challenge – Prince, Laycon, Neo, Lucy, Vee and Dorathy
Johnnie Walker – Team Gold Label – Laycon, Nengi and Vee
Team Victoria’s Courts and Gardens – Laycon, Vee, Nengi and Tolanibaj
Team Cool With Zing – Vee, Erica, Ozo, Laycon
Team Carrot(Hawaii) – Laycon, Nengi, Praise, Prince and Wathoni
Team 4 (Airtel) – Vee, Nengi, Laycon and Tolanibaj
Calabar Carnival (Travel) -Vee, Wathoni, Laycon and Brighto.