6/3/2023 0 Comments Heghest selling musition![]() ![]() The highly-rated DJ produced 3 out of the 11 tracks on his sophomore album – Ten. DJ Spinall (Ten): 67,000 viewsĭJ Spinall is the only non-musician on this list but he wants you to know that he’s still as hands-on as they come. His album is also the only from a traditional ‘big’ label to have made the list, this is indicative of how tough business has been for the bigger, older record companies in recent times.Īt 21 tracks-long, Spotlight is a lengthy debut album but Reekado Banks had a lot to say about his short time in the spotlight and just enough musical pep in his step to make you want to listen to it again and again. Reeky is the first from that batch of the Mavin family to release an album and it’s dope to see him move. It’s been a couple of years since Reekado Banks, Korede and Di’ja announced their presence in the game on the epic single “Dorobucci”, so it’s great to see Mavin 2.0 finally taking off. ![]() The projects were all released at different times of the year, and some important projects weren’t released on the platform at all, so it is no means a perfect system but it’s the best one we’ve had in decades. ![]() Of the indigenous streaming services currently operating in Nigeria, Music+ controls a lions’s share of the market space and therefore gives us a large enough sample size to know who’s truly popping in these streets. Using Music+’s view system, we’ve been able to put together a list of the most popular albums/EP’s/projects released in 2016. But things have changed, by counting the number of views on each artist’s album, MTN Music+ gives us the most accurate way to quantify commercial success yet. ![]() In years gone by, it was impossible to independently verify claims like Flavour’s marketer claiming his Thankful album sold 1 million copies in 5 days or MI boasting that Talk About It moved 30,000 copies in 30 minutes. This means that album sales in Nigeria isn’t this unknown black box anymore, we can finally peep inside to see who’s truly moving units. Physical CD’s aren’t moving like they used to, the imperfect Alaba distribution system isn’t the behemoth that it once was. More Nigerians are using online music stores and streaming platforms to access their music than ever before. We now feel the same way about MTN Music+. PlayData took away guess work and the use of anecdotal evidence in our charting systems, and we’ve referenced the charts ever since to strengthen its validity. The creation of PlayData in 2015 was therefore a dream come true for us because, for the first time, it gave Nigerians the best opportunity to determine what a ‘hit’ song truly was. After all, the urban philosopher Jay-Z once said: men lie, women lie, numbers don’t. Opinions are great – we all have them – but there’s just something about having cold, hard facts to prove a point. 3 of a $250 million-plus deal for David Bowie’s publishing catalog shows, it’s not here yet.It’s been our dream at FilterFree to see data analytics being used more and more in Nigerian music to add more objectivity to our analysis. But as the long-anticipated announcement on Jan. The reasons for and ramifications behind these catalog deals have been expounded upon by Variety and many others in the past couple of years, and the gold rush has to end sometime. Also notable is a previously undisclosed $50 million catalog deal from Blake Shelton.Īnd in a sad reflection of the state of the world, apart from those exceptions, the list is all older white men - with Stevie Nicks, who struck a $100 million catalog deal with Primary Wave, just missing the cutoff. Seven of the 10 made the list based on catalog sales, with the only exceptions being Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Taylor Swift, who had big years either with non-music ventures like West’s Yeezy shoe empire, Jay’s sale of his half of his champagne line, or a bounty of heavily streamed and sold music, like Swift’s four albums released in just 18 months (along with lucrative partnerships with Peloton and Starbucks). ![]()
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