The DJ has surpassed Nigerian DJ Obi's record of  229 hours and 58 minutes of straight DJing, whose ten-day attempt has come to a close, due to medical advice, at 1:28pm on Saturday, July 2, 2016.

Chauncey Graves, whose professional stage name is DJ Colossus, officially broke the record at 1:00pm Sunday, having begun his set Thursday, April 20 in Louisville, Kentucky US.

Colossus was allowed a five-minute break for every hour completed.

The American DJ in an interview granted to a website named Never Nervous, said he was challenged to go for it after seeing that a Nigerian DJ was the current recorld holder and not one DJ in America has attempted the record, saying it was never really about Guinness, but it was bigger than that.

"That bothered me since it was in America that scratching and turntabilist were created. I knew I could be the one to bring it to America. It was never about Guinness for me, it was bigger than that to me."

“It was never about Guinness for me, it was bigger than that to me.”