Burna Boy, a Grammy Award winner from Nigeria, continues to defy history.
This time, as the first African artist, to reach 200 million streams on Boomplay, Africa’s leading music streaming platform.
Boomplay streams are calculated using industry-recognized standards, with no fewer than thirty-second streams equaling one stream count.
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Barely a year after becoming the first artist to reach the 100 million streams milestone on Boomplay, Burna Boy has gone on to double the feat, becoming the first artist to be streamed 200 million times on Africa’s #1 streaming service, Boomplay.
Since the release of the Outside album, which currently has 10 million streams, the Grammy Award winner’s popularity has skyrocketed.
African Giant, his critically acclaimed and Grammy-nominated follow-up album, now has over 43 million streams, four times more than his previous body of work, indicating his expanding fanbase and growth.
Twice As Tall, his 2020 album, has been streamed twice as much as African Giant, with over 80 million streams on Boomplay.
Boomplay’s Director of Artist and Media Relations, Tosin Sorinola, who presented the Afro-fusion musician with a plaque in recognition of this achievement in Lagos, said it was an epochal moment in history of the African music market.
‘This is another iconic feat for Burna Boy, Boomplay, and the entire African music industry,’ she said.
This achievement demonstrates that African music fans are quickly catching up to the digitization and streaming of music, which Boomplay is championing.
With this advancement, artists will be able to earn even more money on our platform.
Burna Boy is a phenomenally talented singer whose music will continue to have a positive impact on people all over Africa and the rest of the world.
We are proud of what he is doing and his milestone achievements on Boomplay; to that end, we at Boomplay present this plaque to him in special recognition of his contributions to the industry thus far and look forward to even more extraordinary achievements.’
Boomplay is dedicated to empowering the African music ecosystem to reach its full potential, with the goal of bringing everything music to Africa and taking African music to the world.
Boomplay currently has the most extensive African music catalog, with over 70 million tracks and 65 million monthly active users.
