{"id":1172674,"date":"2022-08-10T09:44:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T09:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/black-sherifs-kwaku-the-traveller-first-to-surpass-50m-streams-on-boomplay-starr-fm\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T09:44:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T09:44:38","slug":"black-sherifs-kwaku-the-traveller-first-to-surpass-50m-streams-on-boomplay-starr-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/black-sherifs-kwaku-the-traveller-first-to-surpass-50m-streams-on-boomplay-starr-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sherif\u2019s \u201cKwaku The Traveller\u201d first to surpass 50M streams on Boomplay \u2014 Starr Fm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Black Sherif\u00a0has scored a historic 50 million streams for his crossover \u201cKwaku The Traveller\u201d on Boomplay.<\/p>\n<p>The musician becomes the first Ghana act to achieve this feat for a single song, barely two months after setting the record as the first Ghana act to join the streamer\u2019s Golden Club with over 100 million streams earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Black gained mainstream recognition after the release of \u201cFirst Sermon\u201d and \u201cSecond Sermon\u201d singles in 2021, which went viral. A remix of his \u201cSecond Sermon\u201d featuring Burna Boy gave him further reach across Africa and beyond. Prior to that, he earned online traction with his singles \u201cMoney\u201d, \u201cCry For Me\u201d, and \u201cDestiny\u201d which were released in 2020. Later, he dropped \u201cMoney (remix)\u201d, \u201cAdea Kye\u201d, and \u201cAnkonam\u201d which garnered huge buzz on Boomplay across several countries.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, Blacko emerged as Ghana\u2019s 2nd Most Streamed Artist of 2021 and his \u201cFirst Sermon\u201d and \u201cSecond Sermon\u201d were the 1st and 2nd Most Streamed Songs of 2021 in Ghana during Boomplay\u2019s Recap 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Black Sherif\u00a0has been\u00a0announced\u00a0as Audiomack UP NOW artiste for August. He will be featured on the cover of Audiomack\u2019s prestigious #UpNow playlist and will receive amplification across the platform\u2019s channels with specialized marketing, editorial, social support, playlisting, custom videos, and more.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.1&appId=1201200913327594&autoLogAppEvents=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starrfm.com.gh\/2022\/08\/black-sherifs-kwaku-the-traveller-first-to-surpass-50m-streams-on-boomplay\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Sherif\u00a0has scored a historic 50 million streams for his crossover \u201cKwaku The Traveller\u201d on Boomplay. The musician becomes the first Ghana act to achieve this feat for a single song, barely two months after setting the record as the first Ghana act to join the streamer\u2019s Golden Club with over 100 million streams earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1165542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15967,94,17200,2396,5295,357,4618,22803,7831],"class_list":["post-1172674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-50m","tag-black","tag-boomplay","tag-kwaku","tag-sherifs","tag-starr","tag-streams","tag-surpass","tag-traveller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}