Tyla's Global Takeover: Afrobeats Star Strikes Gold & Platinum, Sells Out Tours, and Lights Up MTV VMAs

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In the past several days Tyla has solidified her position as one of
Africa’s biggest exports with a rapid-fire series of achievements
and headline-making appearances. Her August kicked off with a
global music win when the Recording Industry Association of America
certified two of her singles Jump and Push 2 Start from her debut
album gold in the US after topping 500000 units in sales and
streams. As reported by Daily News these tracks, the latest to go
gold after her three-times platinum Water and the already gold
Truth or Dare, are also climbing internationally, reaching platinum
status in Brazil and New Zealand while striking gold in Canada and
Greece and earning silver in the UK. Push 2 Start especially has
shot up the charts, fueled by a viral music video and a remix with
Sean Paul that cemented Tyla’s crossover appeal and amplified the
song’s dancehall cred.

Simultaneously Tyla’s live show demand continues to explode. She
just added a new date at Pretoria’s SunBet Arena set for January 18
after her South African tour dates sold out in minutes. Music In
Africa reports Tyla’s elation at pushing African music global and
credits her Grammy-winning Water—a song that reigned at number one
for a record-breaking 52 weeks on the Billboard Afrobeats chart—as
the catapult for her success. Internationally her A-list
collaborators and magnetic stage energy are now industry legend,
and she’s heading into 2025 with stadium-sized momentum.

On July 25 Tyla surprised fans with a new four-track EP
WWP—standing for We Want to Party—her first project since her debut
album, showcasing her knack for blending pop, RnB, Afrobeats, and
sultry amapiano. Reviews from This Is RnB praise the sensual
synergy especially on the Wizkid collab Dynamite. This new release
was timed perfectly for a flurry of festival and tour
announcements: she is set for Global Citizen Festival in New York
alongside The Weeknd and Shakira and will headline her first-ever
Asia tour through Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila, and Singapore
later this year. The Asia tour, widely amplified on Tyla’s
Instagram and corroborated by TimeOut Singapore and SoapCentral,
has her trending across social media, where she also sits in the
top 600 global influencers with nearly 12 million Instagram
followers according to HypeAuditor.

Capping off her summer Tyla just bagged two major MTV Video Music
Award nominations—Best Choreography and Best Afrobeats for Push 2
Start as TheYanos notes—a milestone placing her alongside global
icons like Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar. Fans are celebrating her
as the new African pop superstar to watch and if social buzz is any
indication Tyla is nowhere near her peak. No major controversies or
negative headlines have emerged and no speculation is swirling—just
a wave of gold, platinum, and pure party energy.

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