Top 10 AKA Career Highlights In The Past 2 Years
Top 10 AKA Career Highlights In The Past 2 Years! AKA has had a splendid rap career and it’s exciting to see what the future holds for the SupaMega, 2017 is set to be another great year for the rapper whose singles topped charts since 2016! His album with Anatii is also set to drop this year and with two singles dropped off #BCWYWF there is no doubt this will be a great year for the rapper. Below is a compilation of Top 10 AKA Career Highlights In The Past 2 Years! Enjoy!
1. AKA has received 3 consecutive (2015-2017) BET Award nominations in the category Best International Act (Africa) – the only African to be nominated for three consecutive years
2. AKA was the only African musician to perform at the BET Experience main stage in Los Angeles in 2016
3. AKA won Coolest Local Music Star at the Sunday Times Generation Next Awards for 2 consecutive years (2016 & 2017)
4. AKA was the first South Africa English rapping artist to go PLATINUM
5. AKA was the first South African musician to gain 1 Million Twitter Followers
6. AKA was the first person in Africa to receive the Exclusive Twitter Camera App
7. AKA was the first South African artist on Tim Westwood’s UK show and paved the path for other South Africans to be featured
8. AKA’s first performance of single One Time, trended worldwide and was the most watched episode of Live Amp – ever, still to date
9. AKA’s release of single, Dreamwork ft Yanga, crashed the internet, trended for over 24 hours and had internationally acclaimed artist, Snoop Dogg, rap to it
10. AKA was 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
11. 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
12. AKA has headlined numerous events across the African continent in countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique just to mention a few; as well as in the UK, USA and Canada
