Burna Boy breaks the previous African record for the highest-grossing American venue. The highest-grossing arena performance by an African musician in the US goes to Burna Boy. Burna Boy breaks the previous African record for the highest-grossing American venue. Burna Boy breaks the previous African record for the highest-grossing American venue. Burna Boy, the Nigerian megastar, keeps achieving extraordinary exploits that stretch the bounds of African music's ability to be commercially successful worldwide.

Burna Boy accomplishes another incredible achievement by becoming the African musician with the top-grossing venue in the US. According to a Touring Data report on X, Burna Boy's 2024 performance in Boston's TD Garden Arena brought in $1.593 million, breaking the previous African record that he had established at Madison Square Garden in 2022. 

During his historic performance, Burna Boy sold out Boston's 19,000-seat TD Arena Garden, one of the 22 sites on his 'I Told Them' Tour, which has already brought in $11,659,531 from 11 confirmed gigs.