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    Burna Boy becomes first African artist to have two singles certified platinum in the US.

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    • Burna Boy Becomes First African Artist To Achieve Two Solo Platinum Singles In US

    • Burna boy adds another US Platinum certification to his collection

    Burna Boy becomes first African artist to have two singles certified platinum in the US.
    Burna Boy becomes first African artist to have two singles certified platinum in the US.

    Nigerian singer, Burna Boy has created history by being the first African musician to have two solo singles bag platinum certification in the US.

    According to an official report by Chart Data via Twitter, Burna Boy set a record as the first African artist to achieve two solo platinum singles (and, for now, the only one) in the US.

    This happened after his record-breaking hit “Last Last,” which sold the necessary one million units, earned him his second solo platinum single in the US.

    It is the fastest Afrobeats song to be certified Gold and Platinum in the US, surpassing 500,000 units in just 25 weeks and 1,000,000 units in 9 months.

    His first platinum solo single was “Ye,” which the RIAA certified as such on January 26, 2023.

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    According to Music Canada, Last Last was certified Platinum in Canada after exceeding 80,000 units sold in the country in November 2022.

    According to the British Phonographic Industry, it received Platinum certification in the UK a month later after selling more than 600,000 units there (BPI).

    Last Last was nominated for a Grammy for Best World Music Performance, but Bayethe, a song by the South African group Wouter Kellerman, Zakes Bantwini, and Nomcebo Zikode, eventually won the award.

    The official music video for the song, which Burna Boy himself directed, has amassed over 171 million views on YouTube.

    The song was created by Chopstix using a sample from Toni Braxton’s 2000 R&B classic He Wasn’t Man Enough.