We take at look at the top ten hottest new artistes currently rocking the airwaves and winning the hearts of music lovers and critics in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.

1) AV (Big Thug Boys) - Adindu Victor popularly known as AV is an Afropop singer and song writer from Nigeria. The talented act came into the Nigerian scene with the release of "temperature" in 2018 and released follow up singles like "blow" and "hustle" in 2019. In June 2021, AV had a major breakthrough when he released the single "Big Thug Boys", an Afrobeats song produced by Kulboy with an accompanying video directed by Boydirector. The song has amassed massive airplays across the country with over 300k streams across all platforms and over a million youtube views within two months. AV is definitely an act to watch out for in 2021 and beyond.

2) Lojay (Monalisa) - Lekan Onifeso Jnr aka Lojay is one of the hottest new artistes with amazing songs that achieved mainstream recognition in the Nigerian music industry this year 2021. Lojay first gained recognition when he featured on Sarz single titled "Tonongo" in 2021. He then went ahead to release a joint EP with Sarz titled Love and Attention (LV n ATTN). The EP album was met with critical acclaim with many hailing Lojay voice, delivery, lyrics and melody which blended well with the amazing production from Sarz. One of the most popular joints from the EP is "Monalisa" and "LV n ATTN" featuring Grammy award winning artiste, Wizkid. The songs are enjoying massive love on the streets and radio. Critics have stated that Lojay is sure getting a nomination for rookie of the year at this year Headies award.

3) Ajinomoix Beats (Focus) - Ajinomoix beat produced the viral instrumental beat titled "Focus" and the track is perhaps the most viral and one of the most successful singles of 2021 so far. The Beat of the song was produced by Ajinomoix beats and the dance was popularized by hagmandc and abatiade on the social media platform - Instagram. The song has achieved critical success and entered the top 100 trends on TikTok as well as getting endorsements from stars like Micheal Blackson, Davido, Pogba, Burna Boy and many more.

4) Ria Sean (Money Bag) - Gloria Asene Enebi aka Ria Sean is a Nigerian songwriter and recording artiste signed unto Former Burna Boy Record Label, Aristokrat Records. The artiste is renowned for her distinct vocals and delivery. She featured on a track off Moelogo’s Ep titled "Who Talk" and has released songs like All I Need, Lemonade and the recent single "Money Bag" which is currently enjoying massive airplay across the country.

5) Ayra Star (Bloody Samaritan) - Oyinkansola Sarah Aderibigbe known professionally as Ayra Starr, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and model. She was signed to Mavins Records by Don Jazzy after she uploaded a video of herself on Instagram singing an original song titled "Damages". She released her debut EP "Ayra Star" on January 22nd to critical reception. The EP had hits like "Away" , "Sare" and "DITR". She released her debut album "19 and Dangerous" on the 2nd of August, 2021 and the project is currently enjoying massive airplay across the country. The single "Bloody Samaritan" of the album is receiving massive love across the country and is on its way to become a monster hit.

6) Ruger (Bounce) - Micheal Adebayo popularly known as Ruger is an Afro rave artiste signed unto Jonzing records owned by Dprince and Mavins records by Don jazzy . Ruger made his debut on the 20th of January, 2021, on the label’s single ‘One shirt” featuring D’Prince and Rema. After the release of One Shirt, Ruger released his first music project ‘Pandemic’, a six-track EP, and the record ‘Bounce’ off the EP Remains a hit record that stayed at the top in various Nigerian music charts at the time of release and was among the Top 100 songs in Apple Music Nigeria and other African countries like Uganda for weeks. . His other singles like “ Abu Dhabi” and “bow“are also enjoying massive love.

7) DaiVerse (Cocaine) - Akandu Ifeanyi aka Daiverse is a recording artiste born in Lagos. He dropped his first single titled control in 2019 . His recent 2021 single “ Cocaine” is gaining massive acceptance everywhere . The song went viral on social media platforms in 2021 and has amassed over 500 thousand streams across all platforms.

8 ) Layon (Again) - Folusho Ayokunle popularly known as a Layon is an Afrobeats artiste and songwriter . He is signed to Mic nation and released his debut official single “ Joro “ fr ELHI in 2020. His biggest hit however remains the KDream produced “ Again “ which has gathered over 50 thousand streams on all platforms and is enjoying massive airplay across the country.

9) Mizzle (Angelica) - Temitayo Anifowoshe aka mizzle is a Nigerian Afrobeats musician and songwriter . He became popular in 2020 when he dropped imitation videos of some top Nigerian musicians on Tiktok and twitter . The budding star imitated the music styles of artistes like davido , Burna boy , Wizkid , Wande Coal , Oxlade among others . The videos gained massive acceptance and saw mizzle amass a sizable amount of fans . He quickly followed up with the well received “ in the dark “ Ep featuring Wande coal, Sarz , Niniola , and Oxlade .with stand out tracks like Angelina Ft Wande Coal. The Ep has achieved critical success.

10) Hypeman Bobby banks (Shedibalala) - DjBalsit and Hypeman Bobby banks released one of 2021 ‘s biggest club hit titled Shebi balala. The song and slang went viral on social media platforms and evolved into the popular shedibalala challenge that ruled the social media platforms in 2021 .The track has amassed over 300k streams across all platforms .

y3mi:
Ofcourse I am aware of all that.

Why wouldn't you guys understand that in all my inquiry to which I'm seeking your good advise on, the idea, as I expect you ought to assume, is ofcourse, within the ambit of after having executed, launched and set into operation, and NOT about embarking on a journey of seeking to patent what hasn't been created. And so I ask again below....


In reference to the statement of the above attached screenshot....would after launching and executing a particular way of conducting business (and by virtue of its novelty of haven't been done before), would I stand to be protected if a patent is granted, would the patent deter any parties from copying, mimicking, emulating and using my same idea of how the business (transaction, operation)

y3mi:


Understood.

But still, the summary of all I'm trying to get at with my inquest on this thread is summarized in the two attached screenshot below. I will like to know if the principle highlighted in the attached images also apply within the Nigeria patent laws, hence qualifying my company to file for a patent, in order to deter any from stealing my fintech idea by way of mimicking, emulating, direct copying, clever imitation whatsoever.

cc: Synord
Bcc: Patented

Ltherman

Roadyroadie:
Can we also discuss the law in relation to startup taxation and organization

Willmichael:
You're a designer cum lawyer....Wow

Dis puts you in a good position to tell us about copyrights laws and stuff

I'm looking to learn a lot about IP laws from you

..and design too

Mnopq:
Am interested, how to get started, registere, and start earning. Please help a soul, am tire of job application. Please help bros. My nos 09039233182, abumujaheed17@gmail.com

y3mi:
Hi Idowu

Appreciate the thread

Had no idea an individual like you exist among tech people in this part.

I'm more interested in the area of safe-guarding my one of my intellectual property from being blatantly copied, stolen and or mimicked, as it involves coding a unique type of payment solution that has never before done before. A fintech novelty.

Because of this I'm learning coding myself and would like to be guided as to how one can patent it before launch. I pretty much understand that one cannot request a patent for an idea or a business idea. One can only be granted an exclusive patent right for inventing, a product or a process that provides a new way of doing something, or that which offers a new technical solution to a problem.

My issue is...in Nigeria, does our patent laws exist to genuinely protects the interest of the tech inventor.

Aidejay:
Because they try to comeback the way they initially blew up.
Making that same sound or that same paced music or trying to make another hit. As someone who's studied the landscape of naija music a bit I can say that it scarcely works.

You don't do that, the best strategy is collabos, change your style, stop trying to make club bangers instead target radio hits, make slower music, never ever jump on trends, engage more on social media, write for other artists if you can, appear in social functions and garner positive publicity, promote other artists and their music, try other things outside music like skit, movies, talk show, anything that can ease you back into public consciousness.

And finally don't think it's a 3 months thing, it will take at least 1-3 years but it's a process gradually you amass heat. And you must keep on releasing the best music you can make don't wait for a hit before you start pushing out your better songs.

No, keep releasing music get a time frame maybe every 2 months. Make music videos I know it's expensive but it musnt be elaborate.

Romanoff:
Because preference changes with demographics and time. The demographics you made music for in the past have moved on, so you are faced with a younger demographic than you are use to and their preference is different from what you use to dish out both in lyrics and beats.