{"id":117847,"date":"2025-09-06T04:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117847\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T04:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:25:10","slug":"black-sherifs-iron-boy-stretches-record-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117847\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sherif&#8217;s &#8216;Iron Boy&#8217; stretches record run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Black-Sherif-s-Iron-Boy-stretches-record-run-1999382?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/80648737.295.jpg\" alt=\"Celebrated Ghanaian musician, Black Sherif\" title=\"Celebrated Ghanaian musician, Black Sherif\" width=\"295\" height=\"231\" \/> <\/a>Celebrated Ghanaian musician, Black Sherif<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">&#8216;High-flying&#8217; Ghanaian artiste, Black Sherif, born Mohammed Ismail Sharrif, continues to make history with his debut album, &#8216;Iron Boy&#8217;, with its record-breaking streak on digital streaming platforms since its debut on Thursday, April 3, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>The album, since its inception, has occupied top spots on both the Apple Music Ghana Top Album and Apple Music Top 100 Ghana charts, respectively, with the standout track &#8216;Sacrifice&#8217; currently occupying the #1 spot on the Top 100 songs chart.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his Apple Music feat, &#8216;Iron Boy&#8217; also shattered records on Spotify, debuting at #6 on the Spotify Top Debut Albums UK chart and #10 on the Billboard World Albums Chart. <\/p>\n<p>Iron Boy holds the record for the most-streamed Ghanaian album in a single day, racking up over 2 million streams within 24 hours of release.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacrifice crooner secured a nomination at the 2025 BET Awards, earning a coveted spot in the Best International Act category. <\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old has also been nominated for Best Male West Africa, Songwriter of the Year, Best African Act Reggae &amp; Dancehall, and Best African Video of the Year at the African Muzik Magazine Awards (AFRIMMA 2025). <\/p>\n<p>These accolades highlight not just his immense talent but also the rising global influence of African music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrated Ghanaian musician, Black Sherif &#8216;High-flying&#8217; Ghanaian artiste, Black Sherif, born Mohammed Ismail Sharrif, continues to make history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-117847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}