Burna Boy breaks Spotify record for most monthly listeners by African artist

Nigerian singer, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, has set a new Burna Boy Spotify monthly listeners record, becoming the African artist with the highest monthly listeners in Spotify history.

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The achievement comes after the ‘African Giant’ singer reached 46.84 million monthly listeners on the streaming platform, surpassing the previous African record of 46.58 million held by South African singer Tyla.

Burna Boy has since increased the figure to 47.3 million monthly listeners, putting him on course to become the first African artist to reach 50 million monthly listeners on Spotify.

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The increase in streams has been driven largely by his collaboration with Shakira on the FIFA Club World Cup song, ‘Dai Dai.’

The song recently climbed to No. 1 on Spotify’s Global Top Songs chart, making Burna Boy the first African artist to top the chart since Wizkid achieved the feat in 2016 through his collaboration with Drake on ‘One Dance.’