Category: Music
Music Business
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:…
Music Business
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,…
Music Business
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…
Music
FOLA and Catharsis: How Nigeria’s Biggest Debut Album Came From Someone Nobody Was Ready For
There is a specific kind of Nigerian music industry story that almost never gets written properly. Not the…
Music Business
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…
Music Business
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…
Music Business
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,…
Music
Davido 5ive Alive Tour: Why OBO Is Playing a Longer Game Than Everyone Thinks
David Adeleke’s Davido 5ive Alive Tour has always been about more than collecting bags and flying home, and…
Events
Teni Made History As She Sells Out & Shuts Down 02 Indigo With Her The Billionaire Experience In London
On Saturday, 22nd of February 2020, another history was made by Nigerian musicians and Afrobeats superstar Teni Apata,…
Music
Davido’s ” A Good Time ” Album, ” Risky ” & ” Blow My Mind ” Singles Goes Double Platinum As Sony Music Presented Him With Plaque Award
Nigerian music superstar and Sony Music/RCA Records act, David Adeleke, widely known as Davido, 2019 second studio album…
News
D’banj Recounts Moment Kelly Rowland Fainted In Lagos, Due to His Energetic Performance
Legendary Nigerian Afrobeats music superstar Dapo Oyebanjo, better known as D’banj, recounts the moment American singer Kelly Rowland…
Music
Police Arrest Eedris Abdulkareem for Beating Up Landlord Over Unpaid Electricity Bill
Veteran Nigerian rapper and one of the unsung heroes of Nigeria music in early 2000, Eedris Abdulkareem, was…