Bill Board 200 Charts: Burna Boy’s Twice As Tall Makes History

On August 14, 2020, Nigerian Singer, Burna Boy released his new album, ‘Twice As Tall’ in its first week, the album became the first Nigerian album to have one million pure you Tube streams from Nigerians.
August 24, 2020, the album debated at No 54 on the American Bill Board 200 charts for the week ending August 21, 2020.
With it, Burna Boy created a new peak for Nigerian artistes on same charts. The other Nigerian albums to have charted on the bill board 200 are King Sunny Ade’s Juju music (1983) and synoro system (1983) as well as Wizkide’s sound from the other side (2017) and Burna Boys “African Giant” (2019).
Meanwhile, Burna Boy has preview the album, with Big Brother Naija “lockdown” Housemates on Wednesday August 27, 2020 where he advised the housemates to keep their heads, while in the show as they danced in the Arena. He urged them to stay twice as tall’ while they are in the house with them.
Now that they know what it means Burna Boy revealed this in a video on social media. The Odogwu’s 15 track album ‘Twice As Tall’ was released on Friday August 14 and it featured artistes like Naughty By Nature, Diddy, Stormz, Sautisol, Chris Martin and Youesson N’Dour.
Twice As Tall garnered a lot of accolades from the singer’s fans and followers as they noted that Burna Boy did a good job. Recently it was announced that the album made a debut at No 54 on Bill Board 200 chart.
Recall that the controversial singer took to social media to say that he is the best thing after Fela Kuti and that he is responsible for the respect Nigerians eventually enjoy. The Anybody crooner also said nobody paved way for him. He further stated that he learnt long ago from another singer that the world can live without the best.
Nigerians on social media reacted to Burna Boy’s tweets and many of them were not impressed by it many people described the singer as being arrogant and they rejoiced that he did not even win the Grammy nomination. Others however, said he is right to feel he is the next best thing after Fela.