For Dapper Music’s Chief Operations Officer, Ademola Alugo, creatives within the music trade ought to get extra recognition and awards.
The music govt, who has labored with the likes of Omah Lay, Skibii, Seyi Vibez and others, additionally famous that the worldwide acceptance of Afrobeats has had a big impact on streaming of Nigerian music.
“Afrobeats has transcended borders and developed into a worldwide sound. Huge shout out to our shining stars like Wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido, Tems, Omah Lay and the pioneers, 2Baba, D’banj and others. We now know that music made in Lagos can get all over the place on the earth and be licensed platinum within the US. The streaming tradition has grown astronomically because the pandemic. Music has no obstacles and there has by no means been a greater time for creatives to get recognition and rewards,” he acknowledged.
Shedding extra gentle on how he ventured into music streaming, Alugo traced the evolution of Nigerian music, saying it birthed an astronomic rise within the streaming tradition, thereby making a paradigm shift from the beforehand identified system of brick and mortal music distribution by way of CD gross sales.
“This opened up a brand new frontier of alternative of which I used to be positive I might play an element in advancing. Large shout out to my pal and boss, Damilola Akinwunmi (Dapper) for giving me the chance. Dapper Music is a 360 music and leisure firm that provides music distribution, administration and file label companies,” he disclosed.
Dapper Music has put out over 2,000 songs, amassed over one billion streams on Audiomack, over 5 albums with a 100 million streams on Audiomack, and common 20 million month-to-month streams on Apple Music.
