Burna Boy sets new African record for highest-grossing venue in U.S

In what would beryllium considered different monumental feat, Nigerian Grammy grant winner, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, amended known arsenic Burna Boy, has acceptable a caller grounds of the highest-grossing arena performance by an African artiste successful the United States.

In a station by connected X (formerly Twitter), it was revealed that Burna Boy’s 2024 performance astatine the TD Garden Arena successful Boston grossed $1.593 million, thereby, surpassing the erstwhile African grounds helium acceptable astatine Madison Square Garden successful 2022.

It was gathered that the aggregate grant winning Afrobeats megastar, who is simply a grandson to precocious Fela Kuti’s manager, Pa Benson Idonije, sold retired the 19,000-capacity TD Arena Garden successful Boston arsenic portion of the stops for his ‘I Told Them’ Tour that has already grossed $11,659,531 from 11 reported shows of the 22 stops.

Burna Boy’s history-making feat is simply a testament to his presumption arsenic the starring African artiste globally. Since breaking into the planetary country successful 2018 with his deed azygous YE, helium has achieved unprecedented occurrence for an African artiste.

The ‘Odogwu’, arsenic helium is fondly called, a rubric successful 1 of his deed singles, is the lone Nigerian artiste to person 2 Diamond songs successful France with On The Low and Last Last. His Grammy-nominated 4th medium African Giant is besides the archetypal Nigerian medium to person a platinum plaque successful France.

Recall that Burna Boy besides made past successful February 2024 astatine the 66th Grammys erstwhile helium became the archetypal African artiste to execute astatine the main grant ceremony, and boasts of the astir Grammy nominations for a Nigerian creator with 10.