Nigerian RnB and Afropop singer Ayra Starr recently announced that she would embarking on a World Tour. The 40 stop tour, titled “21: The World Tour” is set to pass through 4 continents, with one of the stops being in Zimbabwe. According to the itinerary shared by the artist, she’ll be performing in Zimbabwe on the 14th of October. This is going to be artist’s first headline tour.
It’s my first headline tourrrrr!!! I’ve been touring around the world, opening for other artists, opening stages at festivals. Now it’s an Ayra Starr show!
Details of the October concert are yet to be revealed but the stop in Zimbabwe is part of 5 stops Ayra’s tour will make in Southern Africa.
Currently ranking as one of the top 10 most listened to African artists on Spotify, Ayra Starr rose to prominence in 2021 with her eponymous debut extended play. The EP had the hit song “Away”, which spent two consecutive weeks at number four on Nigeria’s TurnTable Top 50 chart; the song also peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Top Triller Global chart, paving the way for the release of her first full-length mixtape, 19 & Dangerous (2021).
Categorized mainly as Afropop and R&B, the mixtape received favorable critical reception and spawned two top forty hits in Nigeria. The lead single “Bloody Samaritan” peaked atop the Top 50 chart, becoming the first solo song by a female artist to reach the number-one position. Bloody Samaritan would go on to get a remix featuring Kelly Rowland.
In 2021 Starr would also debut on Pandora Predictions chart, and get ranked number three on Billboard’s Next Big Sound.
The artist would later achieve mainstream international recognition in 2022, with the release of her song “Rush”. The song charted in several territories, including Switzerland, Ireland and the United Kingdom, where it peaked at Number 24.
With the song, Ayra became the Youngest African Female Artist to surpass 100 Million views on a single video on YouTube, and also the first to do so within 5 months. She also set a new record by becoming the only Nigerian Female Artist to have charted a solo song on the UK official Singles Chart.
