Category: Music Business
Understand the business behind Nigerian music: record contracts, master ownership, royalties, distribution and streaming economics. Explore our guides and analysis of the decisions shaping artists, labels and the wider industry.
Start with Nigerian record deal types, learn to distinguish fake streams from legitimate music promotion, or explore Nigeria’s music industry and domestic market.
Music Business
Someone Is Selling Nigerian Artists Fake Streams and Calling It Promotion: Here Is How to Tell the Difference
There is a particular kind of message Nigerian artists get once a song starts moving: “100,000 streams guaranteed.”…
Music Business
Nigerian Music’s Global Growth Needs Stronger Local Infrastructure
Nigerian music industry
Music Business
How Mavin Records and DMW Differ as Nigerian Record Labels
The Nigerian Record Label Bible
Music Business
Asake’s Two Deals Show Why Record Labels and Distributors Are Different
In February 2022, Ahmed Ololade, known professionally as Asake, signed with Olamide‘s YBNL Nation. Five months later, in…
Music Business
Qing Madi’s Label Dispute: What the Court Ruling Means for Her Music
Chimamanda Pearl Chukwuma, known as Qing Madi, brought her dispute with JTon Music into public view in April…
Music Business
Tiwa Savage’s ‘Energy’ Release Uses Ditto Music. What We Know About the Deal
Tiwa Savage Ditto Music Energy single independent artist 2026
Music Business
Burna Boy and Rema’s 2026 World Cup Music Placements: What We Know About the Deals
Burna Boy Rema FIFA World Cup 2026
Music Business
Q1 2026 Afrobeats Rankings Show a More Pan-African Music Scene
Afrobeats Q1 2026 power rankings pan-African shift
Music Business
Why the Country of a Spotify Listener Matters for Afrobeats Revenue
Afrobeats Streaming Revenue
Music Business
Asake’s M$NEY Puts Giran Republic at the Centre of His Album Rollout
Ahmed Ololade Asake released his fourth studio album, M$NEY, on May 1, 2026, through Giran Republic, the imprint…
Music Business
Tiwa Savage Foundation Awards Berklee Scholarships to 18 Nigerian Creatives
On April 26, 2026, the Tiwa Savage Music Foundation announced the results of its first Berklee in Nigeria…
Music Business
Coachella 2026: Davido’s Solo Set and Wizkid and Tems’ Guest Appearances
davido coachella 2026