Burna Boy becomes most-streamed artiste in Sub-Saharan Africa on YouTube

Afrobeats superstar,Burna Boy is the most streamed Sub-Saharan African artiste on YouTube

According to data shared on X (formerly Twitter) by The Top Charts, a music rating platform, on Monday, Burna Boy’s songs have amassed an impressive 2.52 billion streams.

The Grammy-winning artiste dethroned Tanzania’s music icon, Naseeb Issack, known as Diamond Platnumz, who now holds the second position with 2.37 billion streams.

Following closely is Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, with 1.76 billion views, and Fally Ipupa from the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 1.50 billion views.

Other notable artistes in the ranking include Davido with 1.40 billion views, Flavour Nabania, boasting 1.15 billion views, Ckay from Nigeria securing 1.23 billion views as well as the iconic PSquare from Nigeria with 1.12 billion views.

The list continued with Tekno with 995 million views, and Rayvanny from Tanzania rounding with 972 million views.