Happy 35th Birthday to the incredibly talented Burna Boy.
Throughout his 17-year career, he has continuously broken records and shaped Afrobeats, becoming the African artist with the most lead streams and the highest peak monthly listeners.
Happy 35th birthday, Burna boy 🎉 🩷
•2021 Grammy winner, “Best Global Music Award” (Twice As Tall)
•All-time high for monthly listeners by an African artist (46.85 million)
•Most charted entries by an African artist on Billboard Hot 100
•First international Afrobeats star to secure a UK Number 1 album (I Told Them) and earned the BRIT Billion Award for surpassing one billion UK streams
•First African artist to win Best International Act three consecutive times at the BET Awards
•First African artist to headline and sell out major stadiums across the US and Europe, including twice selling out the London Stadium
•Made history with six consecutive Grammy nominations over six years
•Holds the record for the most certified songs by an African artist in New Zealand
•First Afrobeat artist to sell out the SSE Arena (Wembley) in 2019.