Burna Boy’s latest album ‘African Giant’ has become the highest-ranking African album ever in UK music charts.
The album debuted at number 16 on the UK albums chart.
The debut was announced by Official charts through their Twitter account.
They wrote @officialcharts,
“Check out this week’s Official Albums Chart, featuring the Top 40 debut of @BurnaBoy with African Giant.”
The Official Charts, which are compiled by the Official Charts Company, tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the UK, separating them into the ‘Official Singles Chart’ and the ‘Official Albums Chart’.
The Afro-fusion star first entered the UK charts with his feature on British Rapper Dave’s song ‘Location’ in February.
‘African Giant’ also debuted at number 104 on ‘Billboard’s 200’ chart which is a globally accepted chart.
Burna Boy has been having a great time in his career in recent times with performing at Coachella in April and winning the ‘Best International Act’ at the BET awards in June.
The ‘Dangote’ crooner also has a song ‘Ja Ara E’ in Beyoncé’s latest album for the Lion King Movie.