Listeners goin’ bananas for Conkarah and Shaggy’s viral song
There’s no question about the global impact of Conkarah’s Banana, which features Jamaican superstar Shaggy, as it has been streamed more than one billion times online.
Shaggy and Conkarah on the set of the Banana music video.
Both
entertainers recently revealed that the song has been pulling in real numbers,
jumping to one billion streams online last week.
An excited
Shaggy, in sharing the news via Instagram, said: “I would like to take the
opportunity to say thanks to our fans for taking Banana to over one
billion streams. Thank you very much everybody. One billion! Bless up.”
Shaggy also
thanked the producers and labels who were involved in the process.
Like Shaggy,
Conkarah was also in a grateful mood. “Nuff respect to everybody that has been
supporting the music,” he said.
In addition
to getting one billion streams online, Banana has been certified gold in
Canada, India, Norway, Mexico and the Netherlands. In Brazil, it has been
certified platinum.
Banana was released in 2019 and got extremely popular in recent times following a dance challenge that started on social media application TikTok.
