Asake Released M$NEY Today! The Album Is Good, The Label Behind It Is the Real Story
Ahmed Ololade Asake dropped his fourth studio album M$NEY on May 1, 2026, under Giran Republic, the imprint he built after buying… Read More →
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Tiwa Savage Just Did Something No Nigerian Artist Has Done Before, It Has Nothing to Do With Music
On April 26, 2026, a concert took place at the National Theatre in Lagos. It was not a Tiwa Savage concert but… Read More →
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Before Spotify & Apple Music, There Were Four Blogs, Nigerian Music Owes Them Everything
To understand what NotJustOk, TooXclusive, 360Nobs and Naijaloaded built, you have to go back to Alaba because we can talk about Nigerian… Read More →
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African Music Hit $120 Million in 2026, Nigeria Is Not the Biggest Market
The headline number that came out of the IFPI Global Music Report 2026 last week was $31.7 billion: global recorded music revenues… Read More →
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Burna Boy’s Early Catalogue Is in Legal Limbo, and Here’s What That Actually Means
Damini Ogulu has spent the last five years building toward total control of his music. Grammy Awards winner, Atlantic Records deal, sold-out… Read More →
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Nigeria Built the Biggest Sound in the World. So Why Are Its Artists Running Away From Home?
Burna Boy performed to 80,000 people at London’s Crystal Palace Park in August 2024. That same month, the naira was trading at… Read More →
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Nigeria Made N60 Billion on Spotify in 2025: Here’s Why That Number Is Misleading
Every Nigerian music publication ran the same story last week, Spotify announced N60 billion with 140% growth, and 30.3 billion streams. Afrobeats… Read More →
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Afrobeats and the Grammy Problem: Why Nigeria Keeps Losing Its Own Category
The Afrobeats Grammy conversation has become an annual ritual. If you watched the 68th Grammy Awards in February 2026 and felt like… Read More →
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Nigeria Has the Music, But Can It Ever Own the Platform?
Every conversation about a Nigerian music streaming platform ends the same way thousands of likes, zero hard questions, and everybody scrolling on… Read More →
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Trace Awards 2023 Winners: Davido & Rema Win Big At First-Ever Trace Awards 2023
Trace Awards 2023 Winners Full List On October 21, 2023, the BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda, hosted the first Trace Awards 2023 to… Read More →
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“Save Your Coins” As Wizkid Announces Joint Tour With Davido
”I No Wan Hear Pim” Wizkid Announces Tour With Davido Ayodeji Balogun, better known by his stage name Wizkid, is a top-tier… Read More →
