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Articles by Chiagoziem Onyekwena

9 Mar 2019
Hundreds of songs get released everyday but only a handful go on to become hits. To get, perhaps, the clearest picture of which songs were the biggest in 2018, we combed through 5,000+ songs released last year. We then compared their numbers on streaming platforms like Music+, YouTube and Spotify and compiled a list of…
Maleek Berry
23 Feb 2019
The average Nigerian music consumer is buying less CDs and streaming more. These days, there’s no better reflection of how well an EP has performed in the marketplace...
9 Feb 2019
The average Nigerian music consumer is streaming more and there’s no better reflection of how well an album has performed in the marketplace than examining the streaming data.
15 Dec 2018
In the future, we might look back at 2018 as the year Burna Boy came of age, the year he began to truly fulfill his immense potential. Davido and Wizkid...
24 Nov 2018
There has arguably never been a time in pop culture when it has been so easy to become so popular for doing so little. Being the star of a short video clip that goes viral...
17 Nov 2018
Today marks the tenth year anniversary of Durella’s debut album King of the Zanga, the singer’s official introduction to mainstream Nigerian. Released by TC Records, KotZ was the birth of something special. The album exposed the country to Durella’s boundless energy, contained hit singles such as “Enu O Se”, “Wiskolowiska”, “Shayo” and “In the Zanga”,…
27 Oct 2018
South African hip-hop legend HHP passed on October 24. As at press time, his family hadn’t disclosed the cause of death, but the rapper was known to have battled depression and had tried to take his own life thrice before. So it’s no surprise that the media is speculating that Jabba eventually succumbed to his…
13 Oct 2018
Dj Cuppy has been on a self-appointed mission; the plucky billionaire heiress has struggled to articulate what that mission actually is but it seems like nothing in the world, or on the internet, can stop her from it. Few public figures have taken a worse beating on Nigerian Twitter in recent weeks than Cuppy has,…
6 Oct 2018
A year ago this week, P-Square, arguably the most successful group in Nigerian music history, called time on a run that lasted nearly 15 years. On 25th September 2017, Peter leaked a letter to the press where he’d asked for the termination of the group, citing threats to him and his nuclear family.
29 Sep 2018
A year ago this week, P-Square, arguably the most successful group in Nigerian music history, called time on a run that lasted nearly 15 years. On 25th September 2017, Peter leaked a letter to the press where he’d asked for the termination of the group, citing threats to him and his nuclear family. But it was a video released the following day, showing the twins and their brother Jude almost coming to blows at their lawyer’s office, that put the final nail in P-Square’s twin-size coffin.
15 Sep 2018
After several years away from the limelight, Duncan Mighty has re-emerged as one of the genuine stars of 2018. The singer’s stock rose sharply with the success of “Fake Love” (his collaboration with Wizkid). Duncan is now one of the most booked artists in the country, and has featured on over a dozen songs in…
25 Aug 2018
Yesterday marked the release of A Study On Self-worth: Yxng Dxnzl, MI’s long-awaited 8th solo project in 10 years. The legendary MC has spent most, if not all, of those years at the top of Nigerian hip-hop, and has evolved from an artist who over relies on his lyrics to paint pictures, to one who…