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11 Jul

Boomplay And TikTok Announce Partnership To Amplify African Music

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Africa-facing music streaming and download platform, Boomplay has announced a partnership with global short videos brand, TikTok, that explores cross-promotion of trending content on both platforms via mutual playlists and content discovery. Users of both platforms will be pleased to know that Boomplay will now host a playlist of TikTok trending sounds, while TikTok will have Boomplay’s top songs as part of its discovery and sound pages. The mutual playlists, tagged TikTokPicks and BoomplayPicks, will feature songs that made it into the top trending songs on both platforms each week, with TikTok's list focusing on user-created content and songs that…

03 Feb

Boomplay To Celebrate African Music Excellence At The 65th Grammys With Free Subscription

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The global music industry is gearing up for one of its biggest nights of the year – the 65th Grammy Awards. With African artists receiving landmark nominations across different categories this year, Africa’s most expansive music streaming and download platform, Boomplay, has announced a campaign to celebrate this feat. The streamer is providing its users with a free subscription to enjoy and discover music without any barriers and at no cost for the whole day on Monday, 6th February 2023, upon announcement of any African artist winning their category. Africa boasts eight nominations at this year’s event, and at least…

17 Jan

Black Sherif’s Debut Album Most Streamed On Boomplay Ghana

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Ghanaian trailblazer, Black Sherif’s first studio album, ‘The Villain I Never Was’ has been named the most streamed album on the audio streaming platform, Boomplay Ghana. Since its release on November 6, 2022, the project has charted number 1 to date with over 200 million streams on the platform. Born Mohammed Ismail Sherif, the 21-year-old talented artist released “Money”, “Cry For Me”, and “Destiny” in 2020, which gained him some traction online. Later, he dropped “Money (remix)”, “Adea Kye”, and “Ankonam” and garnered huge buzz on Boomplay across several countries. Black Sherif had an incredible run in 2022. He successfully…

16 Jan

Shatta Wale Joins Boomplay’s Golden Club With 100m Streams

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Ghanaian reggae-dancehall artist, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known in the showbiz circles as Shatta Wale, is the latest artist to join the prestigious Golden Club of Africa’s largest music streaming and download platform, Boomplay. Shatta Wale joins Boomplay’s Golden Club for reaching and surpassing a milestone of 100 million streams. He becomes the third Ghanaian artist to attain this feat after Black Sherif and Sarkodie, and is now part of the club of African superstars which houses the likes of Burna Boy, Wizkid, Davido, Diamond Platinumz, Fireboy DML, Rayvanny, Omah Lay and more. Formerly known as Bandana, Shatta Wale…