Burna Boy’s album “Twice As Tall” debuts at number 54 on Billboard 200 Chart

Burna Boy’s album “Twice As Tall” debuts at number 54 on Billboard 200 Chart

The global reception that followed Burna boy’s new musical album has been phenomenal. The latest album titled ‘Twice As Tall’, continues to gain worldwide recognition on billboards, popular downloads, and streaming platforms, making it the first Afrobeats album to receive high ratings globally. The album is currently being featured on billboards in New York, LA, and London, courtesy of YouTube Music, Amazon, and Spotify. The album also peaked No 1 on Apple music.

In the light of this feat, Billboard charts, a body that tabulates the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere, recently announced that Burna Boy’s album “Twice As Tall” debuts at number 54 on Billboard 200 Chart. This is record-breaking as this is the highest chart ranking so far by a Nigerian artist on the Billboard 200 chart. This is a huge achievement not just for Burna boy, but for the entire Nigeria music industry.

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Released on August 14, 2020, “Twice As Tall”, which is Burna Boy’s fifth studio work, received an exciting reception by getting over five million streams in just an hour after the song was published.

Since then, the album has become number 1 in 40 countries. Apart from Nigeria and UK, ‘Twice As Tall’ also attained number 1 in South Africa, Ghana, Botswana, Gambia, Kenya, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritius, Mozambique and Oman.

While speaking about the album, Burna Boy said:

“It is a journey through a bunch of emotions and energies at different points in time. It has now morphed into something bigger than me. It serves as a bridge for mankind to show that we’re all different but still very much the same.”

The album has 15 tracks and featured Chris Martin (‘Monsters You Made’), Stormzy (‘Real Life’), Youssou N’Dour (‘Level Up/Twice As Tall’) and Naughty by Nature among many others. The album also includes contributions from Nigeria’s Spaceship Collective, Mike Dean, Timbaland, and others.

Burna boy gained recognition in 2012 after releasing ‘Like to Party’, the lead single from his debut album. He became a worldwide sensation across the global music landscape after releasing ‘African Giant’, his 4th album in 2019 which earned him a nomination for Best World Music Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.