Burna Boy announces release date and tracklist of new album Twice As Tall, featuring Stormzy and Chris Martin

The singer-songwriter's fifth album includes collaborations with Stormzy and Coldplay's Chris Martin.
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Burna Boy has shared the tracklist and announced the release date for his new album, titled Twice As Tall. 

The Nigerian singer-songwriter's fifth album is out this Friday (Aug. 14) and features Stormzy and Coldplay's Chris Martin among the 15-song tracklist. The collection follows last year's Grammy-nominated African Giant.

Update (Aug. 14): Listen to Twice As Tall below:

Twice As Tall is executive-produced by Diddy, Bosede Ogulu, and Burna Boy. The record includes recent single Wonderful, while production includes contributions from Nigeria’s Spaceship Collective, Mike Dean, Telz, Timbaland, Jae5, and more.

Mostly recorded in Lagos during lockdown, the record is described in a press release as "a beautiful mélange of sounds... a pure, unapologetic African body of work [that] boasts of a global contemporary sound that is for everyone."

Twice As Tall tracklist

Level Up (Twice As Tall) [feat. Youssou N’Dour]
Alarm Clock
Way Too Big
Bebo
Wonderful
Onyeka (Baby)
Naughty By Nature [feat. Naughty By Nature]
Comma
No Fit Vex
23
Time Flies [feat. Sauti Sol]
Monsters You Made [feat. Chris Martin]
Wetin Dey Sup
Real Life [feat. Stormzy]
Bank On It

Burna Boy recently released My Oasis with Sam Smith and, in March, put out the track Odogwu, neither of which feature on the record. 

Burna Boy's Wonderful is currently in the Top 5 on the Official Afrobeats Chart, a new weekly Top 20 showcasing the fast-rising Afrobeats scene in the UK.

Discussing the chart in an interview with NME, Burna described the chart as "a good step,” adding: "There’s a genre from Africa that is now accepted worldwide to the point where it can have its own chart in mainstream United Kingdom."

Referring to the debate surrounding what constitutes as Afrobeats, he said:  "It’s something that has to be done carefully. You can’t start an Afrobeats chart and not come to Nigeria!"

The Official Afrobeats Chart has been developed in conjunction with Afro Nation, who assist on identifying which songs fall into the Afrobeats genre. Genre coding is applied to the material itself, rather the artist, as artists frequently move between different genres across their career.

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Article image: Nicholas Gerardin

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