Ghanaian international prodigy Black Sherif, has hit a whopping 100M streams on Africa’s most expansive music streaming and download platform, Boomplay.
With this feat, the “Kwaku the Traveller” singer becomes the first Ghanaian artist to ever reach the 100M stream milestone on Boomplay after having had a phenomenal run since last year.
Black Sherif joins Boomplay’s Golden Club, a list of artists who have clocked and surpassed the 100M streams milestone which includes Nigerian artistes Burna Boy, Wizkid, Davido, Zimbabwe’s Diamond Platinumz, Fireboy DML, Joeboy, Omah Lay and Rayvanny.
“Reaching 100 million streams on Boomplay in such a short time and being the first Ghanaian artist to achieve this feat is a big deal to me.
Sharing his achievement to the whole wiase, Black Sherif wrote; “As a young kid from Konongo, who only had a dream and a voice, this brings me to the realisation that I can achieve any and everything so long as I believe and dare myself to take action. Big love to the Boomplay team for putting me on from day one till now”.
Born Mohammed Ismail Shariff, the 20-year-old talented artist released “Money”, “Cry For Me”, and “Destiny” in 2020, which gained him some traction online and later went ahead to drop “Money (remix)”, “Adea Kye”, and “Ankonam” and garnered huge buzz on Boomplay across several countries.
And eventually when he released his “First Sermon” and “Second Sermon” tracks in 2021, they went viral and brought him to the mainstream limelight.
A remix of his “Second Sermon” featuring Nigerian superstar Burna Boy gave him further reach across Africa and beyond.
Consequently, during Boomplay’s Recap 2021, which highlights stats and insights of music consumption and engagement on the Boomplay platform, Killer Blacko emerged as Ghana’s 2nd Most Streamed Artist of 2021 and his “First Sermon” and “Second Sermon” were the 1st and 2nd Most Streamed Songs of 2021 in Ghana.
For the records, Black Sherif won four awards at the 2022 3Music Awards which took place in March 2022, including the Boomplay Breakthrough Act of the Year.
At the same event, he debuted a spectacular performance of his single, “Kwaku the Traveller”.
The song skyrocketed him and placed him on the tangential to African stardom as he peaked at NO.1 on both Boomplay Ghana and Nigeria charts.
Congrats to the young man who has a future brighter than Ghana’s current economy.