“Music artists can have a distribution deal with a record company and still come to Alaba market. If they have a recorded album, they want to be marketed and we are the market. What we offer to pay depends on the artist. If it is an established artist, we could pay up to 60 million naira (US$380,000) for a three-year contract. If it is an unestablished artist, we might offer them 1 million naira ($6,330) since we are taking a risk and don’t know if the market will accept them. The minimum CD run we do is 10,000 copies, but a big Nigerian artist can easily sell 10 million CDs in a week. “If you didn’t sell many copies of your CD and you still see it for sale in shops around the market, you will know that it is being pirated. You would go up to the trader selling your CD and say, ‘I have not been selling this song for the last week, where did you get your CDs from?’ The guy would be, like, ‘I bought it from that particular shop.’

Then you would go to that shop and ask the same question until you found the source. So, it is easier for a man who is in the market to notice if a CD is being pirated than for a man in an office somewhere. Even if someone starts pirating your CD from outside the market, they would still have to come here to sell it because this is where all of the business for West Africa is done.”


http://www.colorsmagazine.com/stories/magazine/85/story/alaba-piracy-industry

Justcash:


I've been blasting it for 2 days consistently. I don't know of 1million sold records, but I know that hustling IGBO men would likely buy the CD and blast it than sit to look for where to download it.

My favorite is Dance and Orinado.

very correct.......says my bros in onitsha,Aba,Ladipo market,Alaba market and trade fair complex.

Africa is enjoying a financial boom,with Nigeria leading the way. The economy of the continent’s most populous country grew 15-fold during the first decade of the new millennium, continuing strongly into the second. is progress mirrored by that of its music industry. There is no shortage of talent, so why isn’t the Nigerian music industry raking in the big-bucks?

It Nigerian music enjoys myriad influences, called-upon by the country’s current leading-lights. Twin-brother duo P-Square lead the way on the RandB scene; their latest album The Invasion selling a million copies in four days.

Singer-songwriter D'banj has produced four successful albums with Don Jazzy, and won three producer of the year awards. Internationally successful, he signed with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D Music in 2011.

2face Idibia has also won much acclaim, including Best Male and Artist of the Year at the 2010 MTV African Music Awards. He has had five successful studio albums, and will perform at London’s Forum this December.

Economic success brings opportunities for the entertainment industry, but also challenges for those at its forefront.


http://www.africanbusinessreview.co.za/leadership/609/s-booming-economy-is-music-to-the-ears




HATERS CAN VISIT THE LINK PLS AND STOP HATING

NewNigeriaMind:


CAN YOU PEOPLE MAKE ANY CONTRIBUTION WITHOUT ATTACHING TRIBE TO IT.......

HATE BEING IN THE SAME COUNTRY WITH THESE PEOPLE O!!!!

EVERYTHING IS TRIBE TO YOU MORONS.

You are asking for a bit much. By the way, stop typing in caps.

Linus4get:
i dont think this is possible in Nigerian market for now! Hit the like button if u are with me.

Everything good is possible in the Nigerian Market.....join the success train.

Only if Flavor and Brymo wie rappers, I would have been expecting some diss tracks..

Mehn!!

I love diss jams.

Watt ever rocks der boat iz defintely none of ma bisness

Brymo was obviously on cheap weed when he was writing this.he shld have known whatever he said would have being termed as hating on flavour even though it was an attack on obiano.he shld have just kept he's mouth shut..but obiano can lie ohhhhh. Chai.there is god ohh.

squaddy:
Nothing new here peeps,it's just a pained ofe-nma-nu hating on an nwa-afor success. It's no news

A pained ofe nmanu wow considering we buy flavor album.

When will you folks stop tribalism.

NewNigeriaMind:


shut up your mind, you are nothing but a tribal bigot.

I have many Igbo friends with Igbo friends with many Yoruba friends and we love each other. so if I criticize my friend now because I am Yoruba means I am a hater or all yorubas are haters. boy your life sucks.

boy every time you look in the mirror you are looking at one of the major problem we have in this country.

dont insult me, there is a thin line between criticism and jealousy...brymo is an unknown artiste and he is not even a marketer or a distributor, why is he apologizing, stupppid fellow like you


dont think that your igbo friends trust you, they are just toloreting you thats all...it hurts but the truth must be told

christopher123:



dont insult me, there is a thin line between criticism and jealousy...brymo is an unknown artiste and he is not even a marketer or a distributor, why is he apologizing, stupppid fellow like you


dont think that your igbo friends trust you, they are just toloreting you thats all...it hurts but the truth must be told

wow they are tolerating me......

why are you hell bent on spreading hate.

how are you different from book haram?

NewNigeriaMind:



eyaaaa sorry poverty is really a disease of the mind.

LIE MUHAMMED, IS RANGE ROVER A TAXI IN YOUR SO CALLED ELDORADO....RICH MAN, YOU SAY 14 MILLION NAIRA IS COMMON, MAYBE YOU ARE STILL IN YOUR PARENTS HOUSE

WHERE IS RANGE ROVER A TAXI IN NIGERIA OR AFRICA...MAYBE IN YOUR DREAMS

SON, LEARN HOW TO GROW UP

christopher123:



dont insult me, there is a thin line between criticism and jealousy...brymo is an unknown artiste and he is not even a marketer or a distributor, why is he apologizing, stupppid fellow like you


dont think that your igbo friends trust you, they are just toloreting you thats all...it hurts but the truth must be told

FYI he said nothig that concerns flavor. what he said has to do with a marketer spreading falsehood.

sometimes I wish I do not have to share a country with you folks.

NewNigeriaMind:


wow they are tolerating me......

why are you hell bent on spreading hate.

how are you different from book haram?

Tolorating you doesnt mean they hate you, you tolerate somebody before it graduate to trust, from trust to love

do you have logical reasoning at all



pls son grow up

christopher123:



LIE MUHAMMED, IS RANGE ROVER A TAXI IN YOUR SO CALLED ELDORADO....RICH MAN, YOU SAY 14 MILLION NAIRA IS COMMON, MAYBE YOU ARE STILL IN YOUR PARENTS HOUSE

WHERE IS RANGE ROVER A TAXI IN NIGERIA OR AFRICA...MAYBE IN YOUR DREAMS

SON, LEARN HOW TO GROW UP

you are obviously a slowpoke, just lie obiano you can lie for Africa and twist words. who said range rover is use as a taxi?

boy your life sucks.

tribalism kills faster than ebola. keep it up.

NewNigeriaMind:


A pained ofe nmanu wow considering we buy flavor album.

When will you folks stop tribalism.

I think they will stop when you actually take them serious; and stop patronizing them (as in stop buying their music or from their shops).

christopher123:


Tolorating you doesnt mean they hate you, you tolerate somebody before it graduate to trust, from trust to love

do you have logical reasoning at all



pls son grow up

see this animal o!!!! I said my I have Igbo friends that we love each other and Igbo friends with yorubas friends that love each ther.....

you came back to tell me they are just tolerating me........

now you have changed it to from tolerate it leads to trust and so on....

you are definitely an obiano marketer..... telling lies is in your blood.

you need a life.

NewNigeriaMind:


FYI he said nothig that concerns flavor. what he said has to do with a marketer spreading falsehood.

sometimes I wish I do not have to share a country with you folks.

That is the problem with you folks, how can you categorically say that the marketer is spreading falsehood, are you a marketer, are you his inentory manager, are you his sales manager

if your obaino music staff, you are in position to refute his claim but if you are none of thes, it then mean that you are basically deluded


how can you stay there and assumes that somebody is spreading falsehood without backing it up


Its like when your neighbour tells you that he has a trillion in his account, you say his spreading falsehood without been his banker or insurer or his valuer


The way you people reasons sometime is terrible


You think that if you cant make it then everybody cant make it

Change your orientation, impossibility is nothing and nothing is impossible


I AM DONE WITH PESSIMIST LIKE YOU...I AM AN OPTIMIST

NewNigeriaMind:



see this animal o!!!! I said my I have Igbo friends that we love each other and Igbo friends with yorubas friends that love each ther.....

you came back to tell me they are just tolerating me........

now you have changed it to from tolerate it leads to trust and so on....

you are definitely an obiano marketer..... telling lies is in your blood.

you need a life.

OH I SEE, YOU "LOVE THEM" AND THEY "LOVE YOU"

carry on with your love nwantiti lol

nwa enwe

sheby na you talk say 14 million range rover common abi? maybe your papa get 10 of them

oh you don change mouth again


lol

NewNigeriaMind:


you are obviously a slowpoke, just lie obiano you can lie for Africa and twist words. who said range rover is use as a taxi?

boy your life sucks.

tribalism kills faster than ebola. keep it up.

christopher123:


That is the problem with you folks, how can you categorically say that the marketer is spreading falsehood, are you a marketer, are you his inentory manager, are you his sales manager

if your obaino music staff, you are in position to refute his claim but if you are none of thes, it then mean that you are basically deluded


how can you stay there and assumes that somebody is spreading falsehood without backing it up


Its like when your neighbour tells you that he has a trillion in his account, you say his spreading falsehood without been his banker or insurer or his valuer


The way you people reasons sometime is terrible


You think that if you cant make it then everybody cant make it

Change your orientation, impossibility is nothing and nothing is impossible


I AM DONE WITH PESSIMIST LIKE YOU...I AM AN OPTIMIST

hahaha see this ngbeke said he is an optimist...... go check the meaning of the word.

with tribalism running marathon in your blood I doubt if you have ever being optimist in your life or have ever had a positive outlook to life.

Brymo is in the industry, he made a claim what Obaino is peddling is a lie, you are here asking me how that is possible.

I am sure Olamide wizkid would have sold like 5 million copies now going by the same assertions.

yeah least I forget, I actually have over 50 million in my account, that you can bet your life on. believe whatever rocks your boat but don't always put tribe in every argument.


STOP THE TRIBALISM.

caprini1:
Everything good is possible in the Nigerian Market.....join the success train.

That is what i have been telling these haters and drag him down people, why must they be negative....



I wonder who keeps their types as friends...they will infect you with their negativity

i so much believe that good things in Nigeria space, if you believe you achieve

christopher123:
sheby na you talk say 14 million range rover common abi? maybe your papa get 10 of them

oh you don change mouth again


lol

SO IF I SAY A CAR IS COMMON MEANS IT IS USED AS A TAXI. you are the one that added taxi to it I didn't say that....

poverty and tribalism is killing you o!!!

wooo your life sucks abeggy..... bye

if the sell 10 billion copies, i am not in position to refute that because i do not have data to back it up, I am not their agent nor their distribution channel partner, you you are just plainly and stuppiddly saying things not substantiated, that is why your folks are seen as back stabbers...the brymo has proved that age long notion...it has noting to do with tribalism but the perception of people towards you and your folks


stop hating success, grow up and finally leave your parents house and go hutsle in some other place...it will help your perception


I am a business man and i deal with every tribes but in terms of friends i select my friends and they dont select me


your so negative

NewNigeriaMind:


hahaha see this ngbeke said he is an optimist...... go check the meaning of the word.

with tribalism running marathon in your blood I doubt if you have ever being optimist in your life or have ever had a positive outlook to life.

Brymo is in the industry, he made a claim what Obaino is peddling is a lie, you are here asking me how that is possible.

I am sure Olamide wizkid would have sold like 5 million copies now going by the same assertions.

yeah least I forget, I actually have over 50 million in my account, that you can bet your life on. believe whatever rocks your boat but don't always put tribe in every argument.


STOP THE TRIBALISM.

NewNigeriaMind:


SO IF I SAY A CAR IS COMMON MEANS IT IS USED AS A TAXI. you are the one that added taxi to it I didn't say that....

poverty and tribalism is killing you o!!!

wooo your life sucks abeggy..... bye

define common? olodo

christopher123:


That is what i have been telling these haters and drag him down people, why must they be negative....



I wonder who keeps their types as friends...they will infect you with their negativity

i so much believe that good things in Nigeria space, if you believe you achieve

exactly......my good friend got a 2014 land rover Lr4. Just for selling a food suppliment and that's just a part time job o.

So when i say the fact it is now termed Tribalism...mtcheeeew


ok take a list of haters from linda ikeji, flavor, genevieve and obi amstel malt endorsements and tell me what tribe they come from


that is the dominating factor, my dear if you dont agree with me, enviromental factors such as tribe, parentage etc influences people behaviour, Let admit the truth and that is when we will change

NewNigeriaMind:


hahaha see this ngbeke said he is an optimist...... go check the meaning of the word.

with tribalism running marathon in your blood I doubt if you have ever being optimist in your life or have ever had a positive outlook to life.

Brymo is in the industry, he made a claim what Obaino is peddling is a lie, you are here asking me how that is possible.

I am sure Olamide wizkid would have sold like 5 million copies now going by the same assertions.

yeah least I forget, I actually have over 50 million in my account, that you can bet your life on. believe whatever rocks your boat but don't always put tribe in every argument.


STOP THE TRIBALISM.

Yeah its possible.

But is this case a fact, I seriously doubt it.

A dream is it is possible, if it materialize fine.

But in this case, if a veteran in the industry like brymo says Obiano is telling a lie and knowing Nigerians and their penchant for telling lies and exaggerating things, I am going with brymo on this one.

Only a fool accepts everything he is told as long as it makes him happy. I will rather be hurt with the fact than be told a lie to make me feel good.

I guess some of us rather accept lies or half truths to feel good rather than accepting the hard truth or fact.

In this case both cannot be verified.

shallom

caprini1:
exactly......my good friend got a 2014 land rover Lr4. Just for selling a food suppliment and that's just a part time job o.

That is positivity, they will stay there and think nagative, beliving everybody is stupid as them, they will never in their miserable life assume that somebody can achieve that? these are the people that will complain that government will not bath them, feed them or clothe the, without believing in themselves, I gave them links that it is possible

I live in satellite town and i have friends in alaba i know the volume of transaction going on there on daily basis, the only thing is that you have to get this i can do it spirit, not sittiing down in a place and blowing grammar


THERE IS SO MUCH MONEY IN THIS COUNTRY, WHAT IS THE BASIS OF THE ARGUEMENT...IN A COUNTRY OF 170 MILLIO, WHY CAN SOMEBODY SELL JUST A MILLION COPY IN A WEEK

IT NOT EVEN UPTO 2% OF THE POPULATION...PEOPLE CAN BE NEGATIVE SHA

christopher123:
So when i say the fact it is now termed Tribalism...mtcheeeew


ok take a list of haters from linda ikeji, flavor, genevieve and obi amstel malt endorsements and tell me what tribe they come from


that is the dominating factor, my dear if you dont agree with me, enviromental factors such as tribe, parentage etc influences people behaviour, Let admit the truth and that is when we will change

Please kindly put names to these haters like you called them....

so all the other tribes that cheer these people are fools or what.......

cant you think for once.

people are who they are irrespective of tribe.

please educate me on their haters, mention names pls.

you only see what you want to see...... your outlook to everything is viewed from the tribal angle hence that is all you see.

MY QUESTION TO YOU IS... DO YOU ACCEPT THESE PEOPLE YOU LISTED HAVE A LOT OF FANS AND ADMIRERS FROM OTHER TRIBES RUNNING INTO THOUDANDS.

SEE YOU NEED A NEW OREINTATION. I PRAY GOD SAVES YOU. AMEN.

christopher123:


Your correct bro but majority of igbo artiste include business in their show thing

So if obaino didnt sell a million which i know is a lie..cos in alaba distributors buy minimum if 100k cds so from ghana to nigeria all he needs is just 10 distributors

Okay lets say it only his igbo people buy the music...consider igbo pipulation

If an urhobo says he sold a million in a week i will doubt

But if igbo or yoruba says so i wont doubt

Its people that buy music

Honestly, I must say that you're way to judgemental and sentimental in your view. You believe sales depend on ethnic groups, hence, your mention of Urhobo is a lampoon on the tribe as a minority. Well, it doesn't work that way. Music cuts across boundaries and ethnicity. Most times, people end up loving songs from other tribes than theirs, it has been that way for a while. There are dozens of one-hit wonder artistes outside and those are the kind of people we have now: you rarely see artistes who strive for the mastery. Being an Igbo artiste does not give you edge over others; 'if your music no sell, na because say the thing fall short of people's expectations'. I reiterate that it is impossible for a Nigerian artiste to hit platinum or near within five days. We cannot attain that feat with our silly attitudes, and Flavour himself is not innocent on this. BTW, I'm Urhobo. I hope that settles it?

I AM NOT YOUR LECTURER, GO AND DO BASIC RESEARCH

GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND

MR RANGE ROVER EVOQUE 2014 IS A COMMON CAR

NewNigeriaMind:


Please kindly put names to these haters like you called them....

so all the other tribes that cheer these people are fools or what.......

cant you think for once.

people are who they are irrespective of tribe.

please educate me on their haters, mention names pls.

you only see what you want to see...... your outlook to everything is viewed from the tribal angle hence that is all you see.

MY QUESTION TO YOU IS... DO YOU ACCEPT THESE PEOPLE YOU LISTED HAVE A LOT OF FANS AND ADMIRERS FROM OTHER TRIBES RUNNING INTO THOUDANDS.

SEE YOU NEED A NEW OREINTATION. I PRAY GOD SAVES YOU. AMEN.