Sho Madjozi's 'John Cena' trends after hitting one million views on YouTube

23 Aug 2019

The hashtag #JohnCena was trending on Twitter on Thursday following South African artist Sho Madjozi announcing that her "John Cena" single hit one million views on YouTube.

“One million views!!!!!! Thanks for watching,” the singer tweeted.

One million views!!!!!! �� Thanks for watching #ColorsxShoMadjozi �� shoutout to @dwpacademy !!! Shoutout to @colorsxstudios for allowing us to do our thing �� Which crew are youuuu???? #JohnCena pic.twitter.com/wECYHMI6kK
— #LimpopoChampionsLeague (@ShoMadjozi) August 21, 2019

Fans across the country took the opportunity to celebrate the star, who won a BET Award for Best New International Act in June.

@ShoMadjozi is living testimony of how far you can go in life by staying true to yourself and not changing your way to fit in... ��
I love her ��#JohnCena pic.twitter.com/025EJi2oVI
— Hector Makhata (@HectorMakhata) August 22, 2019

Let's support @ShoMadjozi with everything we have. She is well representing the country and continent. #ThursdayThoughts Watch / share / post #JohnCena
— Sam Beynon (@BeynonSammy) August 22, 2019

This week has just been such a beautiful week, waking up to the timeline and seeing all the @ShoMadjozi #JohnCena appreciation content. I am officially a member of the Limpopo Champions League coz this is the positivity I signed up for ❤️��
— Jay Badza (@jaybadza47) August 22, 2019

Last week, Madjozi released “John Cena” in collaboration with music platform Colors.

And since then several fans also posted #JonaCenaChallenge videos.

Yo, @ShoMadjozi, Swahili pronunciation score out of 10? #JohnCena #JohnCenaChallenge pic.twitter.com/EfilURv63P
— James Bassingthwaighte (@JamesBassJHB) August 21, 2019

#JohnCena please RT to the world, �� pic.twitter.com/8X3YbtgCsT
— #IThAmBo OUT RN! "�� (@IamLeeCore) August 22, 2019

Today I met this beautiful dancers and decided to Choreograph something and mind you it was a last minute thing and we fell in love with this song by: @ShoMadjozi #johncenachallenge #Johncena �� hope you enjoy �� can the song be out already because Wow! Istoomuch pic.twitter.com/5ys1Qfmvy5
— Meltzino�� (@melitaramokgos1) August 21, 2019

Meanwhile, the real John Cena acknowledged the song by posting a picture of Madjozi on his Instagram account earlier this week.

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A post shared by John Cena (@johncena) on Aug 17, 2019 at 9:36am PDT

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