Dar artist joins Boomplay’s Golden Club after hitting 100 mil. streams

24May 2022
The Guardian Reporter
DAR ES SALAAM
Entertainment
The Guardian
Dar artist joins Boomplay’s Golden Club after hitting 100 mil. streams

TANZANIA's new generation music superstar, Raymond Shaban Mwakyusa, known professionally as 'Rayvanny', has surpassed 100 million streams on Boomplay.

Bongo Flava artist Raymond Mwakyusa, popularly known as 'Rayvanny'.

'Rayvanny', who is also a member of East Africa's music powerhouse, WCB Wasafi, becomes the first artist in Tanzania to amass 100 million streams on the number one music streaming platform in Africa.

With this milestone, 'Rayvanny' that is also the CEO of a record label, Next Level Music, joins other artists such as Nigerians, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu 'Burna Boy', Olamide Gbenga Adedeji 'Olamide', and Adedamola Adefolahan 'Fireboy DML', among others in the Boomplay’s Golden Club.

On Boomplay, 'Rayvanny' is the most followed Tanzanian artist having more than 150K followers on the platform while his Flowers II EP is the most streamed EP from a Tanzanian artist with over 27.9 million streams so far.

His 2021 album titled 'Sound From Africa', currently with over 22.5 million streams, is the fourth most-streamed Tanzanian album of all time after Mbosso's 'Definition Of Love', Ali Kiba's 'Only One King', and Harmonize's sophomore album titled 'High School'.

Natasha Stambuli, General Manager for Boomplay in Tanzania, said: “Rayvanny is a very talented artist and for him to become the first artist in East Africa to hit 100 million streams on our platform, is something that we are very proud of.''

The official added: ''Boomplay is unwavering in its commitment to supporting African artists, helping them to reach and unlock their potentials.''

She disclosed: ''We are happy for what 'Rayvanny' has been able to achieve and I hope that this will inspire other artists to do the same.''

Boomplay is a music streaming and download service provided by Transsnet Music Limited. 

The service houses millions of songs, videos, and entertainment news and allows its users to stream and download their favourite songs and videos.

It further offers users room to subscribe to flexible daily, weekly or monthly plans to access premium features such as ad-free streaming and saving music for offline play.

Boomplay currently has over 70 million monthly active users (MAU) with a catalog of over 75 million songs.

 

The service is available globally on mobile through the Google Play Store for Android, App Store for iOS, and on the web via www.boomplay.com.

The company has regional offices in Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire, and Cameroon.

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