Hundreds of remixes.

Thousands of comments saying the same thing — “What song is that?”

It was like the internet had rediscovered buried treasure.

Skales, who released “Shake Body” ten years ago, woke up to notifications that looked like a miracle.

Tweets.

Mentions.

Fans tagging him from every corner of the planet.

His song, the one that once defined a generation in Nigeria, was suddenly trending again — this time in Europe.

And not just trending.

Exploding.

“When I saw Lamine Yamal dancing to my song, I thought it was fake,” Skales admitted in an emotional Instagram post. “I didn’t believe it. Then I saw the FC Barcelona tag — and I just sat there and cried.”

For Skales, “Shake Body” wasn’t just a hit.

It was the hit.

The song that made him.

And almost broke him.

Ten years ago, he was unstoppable.

“Shake Body” was everywhere — on radios, in clubs, at weddings, in traffic jams under the Lagos sun.

It was the soundtrack of youth, freedom, and fire.

But fame has a cruel way of vanishing when you need it most.

Contracts collapsed.

Label drama hit.

Money disappeared.

And just like that, the man who made Africa dance disappeared from the charts.

“I thought my career was over,” he confessed once in an interview. “I was broke. I was depressed. I stopped performing. I stopped believing.”

Until now.

Until one teenager in Barcelona decided to dance his way into history.

The clip of Lamine Yamal hit 50 million views in two days.

Every replay brought back the sound of “Shake Body” — that beat, that hook, that irresistible swagger that once defined the golden era of Afrobeats.

And then came the twist.

Barcelona’s official Spotify account dropped a new post.

It read:

“New season, new energy. Our official playlist now begins with Skales — ‘Shake Body.’ Let’s go, culers.”

The internet exploded again.

“Barcelona just made Afrobeats official!” one fan shouted on Twitter. “From Camp Nou to Lagos — history!”

Another wrote: “Skales waited ten years for this moment. God’s timing is undefeated.”

For Skales, the comeback feels like a dream.

He’s gone from forgotten to unforgettable in one viral heartbeat.

“I can’t even explain how I feel,” he said through tears in a live stream. “Ten years ago, I was sleeping in my car. Today, my song plays in Barcelona’s stadium.”

And that’s not exaggeration — the club reportedly plans to feature “Shake Body” during warm-ups and fan events throughout the season.

It’s official.

The rhythm of Lagos now echoes through the streets of Barcelona.

“Music has no borders,” said Barcelona’s creative director during the announcement. “Yamal’s dance captured what this club stands for — joy, youth, unity. Skales’ music expresses that perfectly.”

The collaboration is symbolic.

A European football giant and an African sound joining forces — proof that culture, when shared, becomes infinite.

And for the fans, it’s personal.

“We used to dance to this song at school,” one Nigerian fan wrote. “Now it’s playing for Barcelona. My heart is full.”

In Spain, Afrobeats fever has officially taken over.

Clubs in Madrid, Ibiza, and Barcelona are spinning the song again.

DJ playlists are reshaping overnight.

Even radio hosts are calling it “the anthem of the season.”

And Lamine Yamal?

He’s smiling.

When asked about the dance, he simply said, “I was just having fun. That song gives me energy.”

Little did he know — that moment would rewrite someone’s destiny.

Skales has since received invitations to perform at Camp Nou’s halftime show later this year.

Talks are underway for an official Barcelona x Skales collaboration video — merging football, culture, and rhythm in one global celebration.

The ripple effect has gone far beyond music.

Nigeria’s president publicly congratulated Skales on the “historic cultural moment.”

Afrobeats artists around the continent are cheering him on.

And fans who grew up with the song are rediscovering their youth through it.

“This is bigger than music,” one fan tweeted. “It’s about resilience. About not giving up even when the world forgets your name.”

Because that’s what makes this story so powerful.

Ten years ago, Skales thought he’d reached his end.

Today, he’s proof that nothing — not time, not silence, not failure — can erase real talent.

“It’s divine timing,” he said. “I always said maybe my song would find its moment again. I just didn’t know it would be through football.”

And that’s the beauty of it — how one random dance by a teenage prodigy resurrected a song, a career, and a dream.

“Shake Body” now sits at the top of Barcelona’s Spotify playlist, streamed by millions of fans across the globe.

It’s no longer just a song — it’s a symbol.

Of hope.

Of connection.

Of the unstoppable energy that lives inside rhythm.

Even fans in Egypt, Argentina, and Japan are vibing to it.

“Didn’t know Afrobeats could make me love football even more,” one commenter wrote.

Another added, “Every time Yamal scores, I want to hear ‘Shake Body’ playing in the background.”

And maybe, soon, they will.

Because sources inside the club say Barcelona is planning to use the song in upcoming highlight reels and promotional campaigns.

Skales’ voice is about to become part of football history.

The comeback couldn’t be scripted better.

A decade after his fall from grace, he’s rising again — not because of marketing, not because of strategy, but because of a 17-year-old boy who danced like the world was watching.

And it was.

“This is what art does,” said a music critic in Lagos. “It travels. It disappears. Then it comes back when someone new finds meaning in it. That’s immortality.”

Now, every time Barcelona fans open their playlist, they’ll see it:

Track 1 — Skales: “Shake Body.”

A song that refused to die.

A rhythm that refused to fade.

And a story that proves destiny dances to its own beat.

“I didn’t plan this,” Skales said quietly in his latest interview. “But maybe that’s the magic. You don’t plan miracles. They just happen.”

And this miracle, somehow, belongs to everyone.

To Yamal, the teenager who reminded the world that football can still make people smile.

To Skales, the artist who taught us that failure isn’t the end — just the interlude before the chorus hits again.

And to every dreamer out there, wondering if their moment will ever come back.

It will.

Because sometimes, all it takes is one dance, one spark, one song that refuses to stop shaking.

💃💥 Because the rhythm never really leaves you — it just waits for the right moment to make the world move again.