Burna Boy is trending on Twitter not only for his incredible performance, but also for the amount of money he made from his sold-out Madison Square Garden concert!
Burna was the first Nigerian music artist to headline a sold-out concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, USA. While his accomplishments are astounding, he is also the first to earn more than N3 billion in ticket sales alone.
Ticket prices ranged from $80 to $2,125, with an average of $350. Their calculations use average sales of N145,365.50 ($350) multiplied by the total available capacity for a music concert in the arena of 20,789, with the current exchange rate of N415.33, yielding a total cost of $7,276,150, which costs more than N3,000,000,000
This puts Burna Boy ahead of his peers, thanks to his two-hour internet-breaking concert. The concert, titled "One Night in Space," was streamed live on YouTube, attracting over 81,000 viewers from Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada.
Burna Boy has now joined Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Adele, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Justin Bieber, and Mariah Carey on the list of artists who have sold out the world's most famous arena.