Nigerian singer, Burna Boy has become the first artiste to reach 100 Million streams on online music streaming platform, Boomplay.
The Grammy winner keeps breaking records and hitting musical milestones.
At the top of the list, Burna Boy is closely followed by other leading Nigerian musicians such as Fireboy and Olamide.
Boomplay announced the feat via its official Twitter handle as it congratulated the Port Harcourt born musician.
”Grammy award-winning @burnaboy has officially hit 100 million total streams on Boomplay!
He becomes the first artiste to achieve this feat as the most streamed artiste on #Boomplay!” they tweeted.
Meanwhile, The African Giant has also been nominated for International Male Solo Artist category of the 41st edition of the BRITs Awards.
The BRIT Awards, simply called, ‘The BRITs’ are the British Phonographic Industry’s annual popular music awards.
The organisers of BRITs awards took to its instagram handle @brits to announce the nominees of the 2021 edition.
“The nominees for #BRITs 2021 International Male Solo Artist are: @springsteen, @burnaboygram, @childishgambino, @tameimpala and @theweeknd ⚡️,” organisers wrote.
The renowned “Way Too Big” singer was nominated along with American singer and rapper, Donald Glover, veteran music icon Bruce Springsteen, record producer Tame Impala and Canadian singer, The Weeknd.
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In 2020, Burna was nominated alongside veteran American icon Bruce Springsteen, Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy, American singer and rapper, Post Malone and American rapper Tyler, the Creator in the same category.