Epochal Moment As Burna Boy Becomes First African Artiste To Hit 200m Streams On Boomplay

<h4>Epochal Moment As Burna Boy Becomes First African Artiste<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> gathers that Nigerian Grammy-award winner Burna Boy has broken yet again&comma; another record of becoming the first-ever African artiste to hit 200 million streams on Africa’s number one music streaming platform&comma; Boomplay&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Boomplay streams are calculated based on industry-recognized standards in which only no less than thirty-second stream is equal to one stream count&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Barely a year after Burna Boy was celebrated as the first artiste to hit the 100 million streams milestone on Boomplay&comma; he has gone ahead to double the feat&comma; making him the first artiste to be streamed 200 million times on Africa’s &num;1 streaming service&comma; Boomplay&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The growth of the Grammy Award winner has been exponentially upturned since the release of the Outside album&comma; which stands as 10 million streams currently&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;His follow up album&comma; African Giant&comma; which was critically acclaimed and nominated for the Grammys&comma; now has over 43 million streams&comma; four times more than the previous body of work&comma; indicating his broadening fanbase and growth&period; True to its title&comma; his 2020 album Twice As Tall has been streamed twice more than <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;google&period;com&sol;">African<&sol;a> Giant&comma; standing at over 80 million streams on Boomplay&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Tosin Sorinola – Boomplay’s Director of Artist and Media Relations&comma; who presented a plaque in recognition of this feat to the Afro-fusion musician in Lagos&comma; said this was an epochal moment in the history of the African music market&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She said &OpenCurlyQuote;This is another iconic feat for Burna Boy&comma; Boomplay and the entire African music industry&period; This achievement shows that fans in Africa are fast catching up to the digitization of music and streaming&comma; which Boomplay is championing&period; With this development&comma; artistes can earn even more on our platform&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;the service is committed to empowering the African music ecosystem to unlock its full potential&period; Boomplay has the most extensive catalogue of African music with over 70 million tracks at the moment and 65 million monthly active users&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; Vanguard Newspaper<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;