By Blessing Udeobasi
Nigerian Afrobeats singer Burna Boy reportedly made over N3 billion from just ticket sales at his sold out concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, USA.
Reports by BusinessDay revealed that he generated the sum from ticket sales which went for as low as $80 and as high as $2,125 with an average of $350.
Using the average sales of $350 to multiply the total available capacity for a 20,789 arena, at the official exchange rate of N415.33 per dollar, the total amount generated is $7,276,150 equaling N3,022,003,379.50.
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Burna Boy is the first Nigerian to headline a 2 hours concert titled ‘One Night in Space’ in Madison Square Garden.
He therefore joins late pop stars Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Mariah Carey, Adele, Rihanna, Jay Z and Justin Bieber as artistes who have sold out the world’s most famous arena.
