Burna Boy makes history with his last 3 studio projects, a feat that most of his African and international peers haven’t achieved yet despite being in the music industry far too longer than him.
The Grammy Award-winning Afrobeats singer who now comfortably answers to his self-proclaimed moniker “African Giant” made the list of former US President Barack Obama’s favorite musicians a few months ago making him one of the best African musicians exports today.
Burna Boy’s three previous projects made such a huge unprecedented milestone that proves indeed Africa is full of musical giants, in this scenario; as dominated by Burna Boy.
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His last three studio albums; ‘Outside’, ‘African Giant’, and ‘Twice As Tall’ have each hit 100 million streams on Spotify alone.
Burna Boy’s ‘Outside’ studio album was officially dropped in January 2018, the Grammy-nominated ‘African Giant’ album was released in July 2019 while the Grammy-winning ‘Twice As Tall’ studio album was released officially in August 2020.
The streaming numbers on other DSP(Digital Streaming Platform) are not in consideration.
.@burnaboy is the first African artist to have three albums with at least 100 million streams each on Spotify (African Giant, Outside & Twice As Tall).
— chart data (@chartdata) May 9, 2021
Burna Boy is expected to share the same stage at the 10th anniversary Governors Ball Music Festival in New York City, USA with Billie Eilish, Post Malone, A$ap Rocky, DaBaby, Megan Thee Stallion, Young Thug, 21 Savage, Cordae, EarthGang, and so many other mentionable celebrated international artistes.
Burna Boy has maintained his humility by achieving such a feat in his successful, illustrious career as he preps up to perform at The 02 Arena in London to play his headline show on 27th August 2021.
