AKA LEVELS album goes Platinum
AKA LEVELS is the #3RDWRLDBOSS’ second studio album and it has officially been certified Platinum.
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The AKA LEVELS album has garnered him a strong following across the African continent, opened up doors for him in the U.S and the U.K and has entrenched him as one of the most important players in the South African music scene.
The AKA LEVELs album’s platinum status is testament of the hunger of AKA’s fans to want to own his catalogue of music which include many classic hits.
2015 was a great year for AKA as he dominated local radio airwaves as the most played South African artist with his two new single releases that came out toward the end of the year.
AKA received and continues to receive award nominations and recognition across the globe for singles released from his album LEVELS.
Going on two years without a new album, it is unusual in South Africa for an artist to be able to keep up momentum let alone dominate the music scene the way AKA has managed to do so.
AKA Levels is quite a milestone but check out some of these other highlights the rapper has achieved in recent times…
- AKA is the first South African musician to gain 1 Million Twitter Followers
- AKA is the first person in African to receive the Exclusive Twitter Camera App
- AKA’s first performance of new single, One Time, trended worldwide and was the most watched episode of Live Amp – ever
- AKA’s release of new single, Dreamwork ft Yanga, crashed the internet, trended for over 24 hours and had internationally acclaimed artist, Snoop Dogg, rap to it
- AKA won 2 Metro FM Awards (MMA15) this year (with no new album)
- AKA received 4 South African Music Award nominations (SAMA22), of which 2 fall in the category Record of The Year (with no new album)
- AKA is the only African based artist to feature in the BBC Radio 1Xtra’s “HOT FOR 2016” artists list, which previously predicted successes such as Drake and Sam Smith
- AKA received 5 Best African Act nominations in 2015 showing his brand appeal as an artist dominating the African continent and not just in South Africa
- AKA received a BET Award nomination in the category Best International Act (Africa)
- AKA was the first South African artist on Tim Westwood’s UK show and paved the path for other South Africans to be featured
- AKA headlined numerous events in 2015 across the African continent in countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and Mozambique just to mention a few; in the UK, in Canada and LA
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AKA recently hosted the first of a series of planned SupaMega shows, which saw him shut down Zone 6 venue in Soweto to capacity like never seen before.
He also launched the #AKAScholarship with the SAE Institute – Cape Town recently in partnership with NPO Bridges for Music which sees him giving back to an industry that has been good to him so far.
