What passes for good music these days in the Nigerian music industry? Well, that’s probably the toughest question in the world even though it has the simplest answer; ‘the same thing that’s making the industry fail.’
It’s really appalling because now international artistes are using our afrobeat sound on their songs and they are making it the music way better than Nigerian artistes – save for the few good ones, – ever did. Why are all these things happening, you ask? It’s simply because the Nigerian music industry is still backwards and below, you will find the 4 major reasons why this is so.
PAYOLA
The art of payola has been a plague in the industry since the radio was invented. OAPs play an artiste’s song – no matter how crappy the song is – for a stipulated fee, especially in the guise of promoting the artiste’s song. Yes, I know the radio personality wants to make as much money as possible because things are hard in the country, and while this is helping to foot the bills of the radio station, it is, in turn, killing the music industry because of the amount of not-so-good songs that we listen to on radio every day. And Nigerian music is kind of setup in a way that you end up enjoying a song, you initially hated, after you’ve listened to it too many times. So payola is helping make wack artistes and wack songs popular.
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