Burna Boy to host YouTube Music Nights to celebrate 5th anniversary

While Nigerian Afrobeats powerhouse, Rema, was dazzling at the Louis Vuitton’s Men’s Spring-Summer Show during Fashion Week in Paris on Tuesday, his global hit ‘Calm Down’ was plucking trophies at the 2024 ASCAP London Music Awards. Calm Down’ snagged the coveted Song of the Year and Top Streaming Song awards. The song’s co-writers and co-producers,…

Afropop singer David ‘Davido‘ Adeleke, Angélique Kidjo, and Afreximbank’s president, Dr. Benedict Okey Oramah have showered encomium on the organisers of the Grammy Awards following their commitment to support music creators in Africa and the Middle East on a global scale. The Academy recently agreed with ministries of cultures and key stakeholders across the Middle…

Afrobeats singer Ayra Starr has denied knowledge of the rivalry between her colleagues, Asake and Seyi Vibez. While Asake and Seyi Vibez have not had any public spat, there has always been a chill between their fanbases, especially on social media. In a recent interview with The Beat FM Lagos, Ayra Starr was asked whether…

Grammy-nominated Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, has lamented that Burna Boy is erroneously being credited for records set by him and others in the Nigerian music industry. He recalled that Burna Boy was widely reported as the first artiste to play in Coachella in 2020 despite his (Kuti’s) performance at the festival in 2012. He also…

Controversial rapper, Tochukwu Ojogwu, popularly known as Odumodublvck, has declared himself Nigeria’s “number 1 internet villain.” In a snippet of an unreleased song making the rounds of X, Odumodublvck lamented that he was being vilified on the Internet. He noted that he is constantly abused on social media. Odumodublvck said, “If you dey conversant with…