Mp3bullet.ng presents the top significant occasions in Which Burna Boy demonstrated that he is the African Giant.
Burna Boy has cemented his legacy in the music industry since becoming well-known in 2012, and his accomplishments have established him as the “African Giant.”
This is a man who despite the many obstacles and scandals that have trailed his almost decade career, keeps pushing his limits beyond the clouds.
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Mp3bullet.ng put together a list of the major achievements that have back-uped Burna Boy’s talk about being the African Giant.
Winning BET Awards three times consecutively
As if winning the 2019 Best International Act at the BET Awards wasn’t enough for Burna Boy, he went and won it again in 2020 and 2021 making the record of being the first African act to bag three BET nominations and win consecutively.
Grammy win
It is a big deal for a Nigerian artist to be nominated for a Grammy. However, receiving two nominations indicates that you are performing exceptionally well.
His first nomination came in 2020 thanks to his “African Giant” album but he lost to Angelique Kidjo.
The self-styled Odogwu no doubt came back twice as tall after his album, Twice As Tall, won a Grammy award for Best Global Album in 2021.
The Only guest artist with their own track on Beyoncé’s “The Lion King: The Gift” album
Beyonce enlisted African artists for her “The Lion King: The Gift” album and while most artists were paired together, Burna Boy was the only artist on the album to have a track all to himself. And did he deliver- Of course.
When he shut Madison Gardens
Burna Boy made history when he hosted fans to a thrilling night of music at the Madison Gardens in New York.
The show wasn’t only sold out but was also watched online by thousands of fans across the world.
The electric night showed why Burna was mincing words when he referred to himself as Odogwu.
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African Giant Album hitting one billion streams
Burna Boy’s game-changing album, “African Giant,” was published in 2019, and while it did not win the Grammy Award for Best World Album in 2020, it was a commercial and critical success.
Burna celebrated the album’s one-year anniversary in 2020, revealing that it had received one billion streams, making it one of the few albums by an African musician to do so.