The Recording Academy has recognized Nigerian Afrobeat superstar as the biggest Afrobeats artiste and the biggest musician in Africa.

This comes after the vocalist of ‘Like To Party’ received four nominations for the 2024 Grammy Awards.

The remark was made in a statement posted on the Academy’s website on Saturday, November 11, 2023, thanking Burna Boy and other nominees for the newly minted Best African Music Performance category at the 2024 Grammys.

The organizers of the popular Grammy Awards have declared Burna Boy as the undisputed heavyweight of African.

Grammys said Burna Boy is “firmly in his imperial era” having collaborated with “global stars such as Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber,” and also earned his first UK No. 1 album this year with “the classic hip-hop influenced I Told Them…, featuring appearances from 21 Savage, J. Cole, RZA, and GZA.”

The organizers further said, “There’s not a bigger star in Afrobeats, or even the whole of Africa itself, than Burna Boy. He nabbed two consecutive Best Global Album GRAMMY nods for his albums Twice as Tall and African Giant, and he’s also collaborated with global stars such as Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber.”