Burna Boy, the world-famous Nigerian musician, has been ranked the African artiste with the best income from a single live performance.
Top Charts Africa, a pop journal, curated an inventory of artistes whose reported single-concert income stood out.
The numbers, it clarified, have been sourced from Bloomberg and the boxscore aggregators Touring Data and Pollstar.
In the 10-entry checklist, Burna Boy occupied seven slots, leaving two for Wizkid and one for Tiwa Savage.
Burna Boy’s highest-yielding live performance was listed as his Madison Square Garden gig of April 28, 2022, in New York City.
The acclaimed live performance on the 20,789-capacity stadium, based on the checklist, earned Burna Boy a whopping $1,576,641.
It was reported to have offered a complete of 13,586 tickets.
Following intently is the self-acclaimed African Giant’s live performance in Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam (April 14, 2022) with $1,564,720 in income.
The music present, which was a part of the singer’s Space Drift tour, was reported to have offered a complete of 17,000 tickets.
The third and fourth consecutive slots are for Washington DC’s Capital One Arena and London’s O2 Arena the place the Grammy-winning megastar reported $1,434,525 and $1,347,333 respectively in live performance income.
It is till the fifth slot that Wizkid made his first entry on the rating with an MSG present that raked in $1,002,709.
The ‘Ojuelegba’ crooner made the sixth slot with the London O2 live performance that generated $958,489, having offered a complete of 16,938 tickets.
Burna Boy snagged the following three slots, leaving the tenth place for Tiwa Savage whose O2 Brixton gig earned her $344,500.
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