Tyla breaks record by clocking 3 million views in 3 days

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The 21-year-old singing sensation, Tyla Laura Seethal, known professionally as Tyla, has made music history on YouTube.

Barely three days after the release of her music video for her hit single ‘Water’, the views on the video rapidly climbed to three million making it the fastest South African music video to reach that mark.

The success of the single across the globe over the past month has also seen Tyla become the first South African artist to clock 10 million monthly listeners on Spotify.

Tyla was born and raised in Johannesburg, signing to Epic Records in 2021 after the domestic success of her debut single "Getting Late."