Omah Lay joins Burna Boy & Rema in making Afrobeats history on Spotify – Pulse Nigeria

A man with dark curly hair and a beard looks down, wearing a yellow cardigan over a white shirt adorned with decorative brooches, channeling Afrobeats vibes like Omah Lay, against a plain light background.

In a landmark feat, Omah Lay’s debut album ‘Boy Alone’ has surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify.

The album, released in July 2022, packed the smash hit records ‘Soso’, which surpassed 285 million Spotify streams, and ‘Understand’, which accumulated 169 million streams.

The album had a guest appearance from Grammy-winning American megastar Justin Bieber, who appeared on ‘Attention’, which has also surpassed 110 million streams.