Every nigerian musician now wants to own a
record label and even go ahead to sign artistes.
They believe it helps boost their status in the
game as people see them as CEOs. These
musicians are barely standing on one foot yet
they shoulder the responsibility of promoting
others. This is mostly the reason why some
artiste and record labels lose out along the line.
Below are a list of some Nigerian record labels
that have fade into oblivion.



1. Storm records 360

This record label had several talented musicians
in their fold e.g sasha, naeto c, darey, GT the
guitarman,
Jazzman olofin etc. The label made wave
between 2005 and 2010. No news has been
heard about them since then as most of the
artiste they signed have moved on to other
labels, other businesses or simply faded with
them. The label is/was owned by Obi Asika.


2. Questionmark records

This label looked promising around 2007 with
the best of the best acts from Mode 9, Cobhams,
Asa, Silver Sadihh, Ruffman etc and with CEO
Kelvin Luciano. Few of the acts formerly signed
to the label are still doing well e.g asa who is
signed internationally, cobhams who is one of
the best producers in Nigeria and mode 9 who is
still keeping it real with his underground hiphop.


3. Westside music

When fans of the defunct plantashun boiz
wanted to see who else from the group could
blow as huge as 2face, Westside music was
there to push Faze forward with the Faze Alone
album for them to judge. CEO Solomon Arueya
also sign acts like Lara George, da Natives,
D'jinee, Modele, Freestyle etc who really didn't
go beyond a one hit wonder.


4. Globedisk

Do you remember the days of swuo and konto
ghetto music from ajegunle? This label pushed
ajegunle to the limelight with great acts like
African Chyna, Marvellous Benjy, Omo Jesu and
Blackface. As soon as the ghetto brand of music
washed off, the label also did the same. This
label held it down from 2001 to around 2007.


5. Littlefish records

This label was seen as a beacon of hope in the
days when Kennis music was seen as the only
record label that could blow up an artiste. They
looked promising when they signed Ruggedman
who was already in the bad books of Kennis
music for dissing some of their artistes. We all
thought we were going to have a badboy/
deathrow records kind of beef with kennis music
and little fish till we heard that littlefish's office
got burnt and ruggedman pulling out of the
record deal. The label quenched before it could
even take off.



These days, we have EME, Mavin, DB records,
Fivestar music, Choc city, Starboy, HKN, YBNL
and many more. The acts making wave for the
labels are usually the owners. We hope they
don't end up like their predecessors.


Written by Adewole Segun


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