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Award-winning Ghanaian UK-based Afro-beats artiste, Nana Richard Abiona, known in the showbiz industry as Fuse ODG, has disclosed that he made half a million record sales from his hit single �Million Pound Girl.� The hit-song, which was at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart, went up to number 5 over a short period. Explaining the rationale behind the song, the British-Ghanaian rapper said he wanted the song to diffuse negative perceptions that people held about women and at the same time empower them. �The inspiration is for me to present women in such positive way and not just positive but also, for it to stand against such American songs that talk in a certain way about girls,� Fuse ODG told STARR DRIVE host, Bola Ray. �You sometimes know when the pastor is talking; people don�t listen but when Lil Wayne is talking people listen. So I�m like a pastor talking like Lil Wayne but in a good way. So it can be played in the club and girls can tweak to it but at the same time I�m elevating them,� he joked. Fuse ODG said Afro-beats is a movement that will soon take over the world. �Afro-beats is like the biggest black music in the UK right now because we are pushing it as a movement and so they love it out there. Every day you will hear our music on the radio that was not happening before,� he said. He said the movement is positive because it is helping to change negative perceptions some people have about Ghanaians and Africans as a whole. �Ghana is running things in the UK right now. In the top,10 is a Ghanaian� it�s us running it in the UK so definitely we are making it,� he added. Watch 'Million Pound Girl" video below: