The digital world continues to transform the music industry in many ways. Research on essential social media platforms for musicians shows that these platforms positively influence artists' talents and careers. Reaching out to influential bloggers with your music can boost your talent in many ways. Usually, influential bloggers gain much ...
The music and podcasts that you listen to serve as an incredible reflection of your interests and tastes.Similar to social media services, Spotify also has the option to add a display image to your profile, and your friends can follow your profile and playlists. Here's how you can change the ...
Music is arguably one of the most important features in life. It plays many roles in many civilizations. From lullabies, to entertainment, to passing down myths and tales, music has always played a crucial part in society. You previously had to attend a physical concert, have a record or cassette ...
Imagine what life would be like without music. If we did not have any song or melody in our lives. Boring, yes? It is thus very important to support musicians and their work whichever way we can. We should especially do this with local musicians because their success and glory ...
Publiseer, a Nigerian digital book and music publishing platform has published 15 books and 16 albums within two-weeks from kick-off. All books published by the free digital publisher can be found on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play Books, Apple iBooks, Kobo, Scribd, Playster, OverDrive, and everywhere books are sold ...
Caketunes.com is a music and beat distribution platform for emerging artistes, DJs and producers aimed at opening up opportunities for aspiring artistes across the continent to share their work, connect with their fans and audience and break though barriers to succeed. Users get a free Caketunes account, a unique page ...
The Nigerian twins who built and sold their social network LagBook back in the day have launched Publiseer, a free digital publishing platform for independent Nigerian authors and musicians. The platform aims to help book publishers to publish and sell their books on bookstores like “Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play Books, ...
When it comes to music, Nigerians are one group of people that can go any length to get and listen to songs from their favourite music artistes. The music industry in the country thus, enjoys high patronage. Keno Alordiah wants to take advantage of this love for music with his ...
After 4 years of distributing music, Mdundo recently launched its streaming feature both on the website and the android app in a move set to make it Africa's biggest music distribution and streaming service as Safaricom mulls relaunch of Skiza as a competing music streaming service. Mdundo says its newly ...
In their 2016-2020 Entertainment and Media Outlook, Pricewaterhouse Cooper (PwC), a global auditing firm confirms that the previous half decade has seen unprecedented growth, and predicts that the next four years will even be more momentous for the music industry. The report showed that the Nigerian music industry was worth ...
Music is the food of the soul and of course, you will get a lot of it in Nigeria. We have so many talented artists in the country from Davido to TuBaba, WizKid, Tekno, Psquare, Phyno, Olamide, Tiwa Savage, Simi, Eva, and Yemi Alade. The list is endless! These Nigerian ...
IROKO is set to launch a dedicated, 100% Nigerian music & lifestyle channel on LES BOUQUETS CANAL+, channel 127 for the French Speaking Africa on 20 June 2017 to showcase top Nigerian Afrobeats hits, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Speaking at this year’s DISCOP Abidjan, Jason Njoku, ...
Sing Plus, or Sing+, is a new karaoke singing and recording application specially designed for African music lovers with a songbook of 3,000 and growing instrumental tracks of trending Swahili and English songs in Africa. The brand-new app, developed by Eagle Mobi, an African mobile app developer, aims to connect ...
Music streaming service Deezer has launched Deezer Next, a newly created programme aimed at identifying and championing emerging talent in addition to providing an avenue for exposure to new audiences on the Deezer platform. Deezer Next is an exciting new initiative exclusive to Deezer users, which allows them to discover ...
MTN has unveiled a revamped and new-look version of of MTN Music+, its online music streaming platform bundling digital music and data together. The firm says the revamp will allow a customer who have active bundles to perform any activity on Music+ at zero-rated charges. According to Maxwell Nonge, Chief ...
Founded this year by Bilal Soomro, Gideon de Brouwer and Ian Bartonjo, Kenya's RequestBox is a modern day song request platform or Juke Box allowing any person, radio station, club or party to open a RequestBox to receive song requests. According to Ian Bartonjo, one of the co-founders, the idea came about after he ...
There is so much copyright infringement and fraud in Kenya's struggling music industry (compared to Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Tanzania) forcing musician to moonlight to put food on the table. However this is set to end in a matter of months if Shimanyi Osoro, Dennis Chivatsi, Norman Munge and David Gathumbi make ...
Uganda's Fezah app wants to help just anyone to book a musician, band, or DJ for their next event at the click of a button. The app has a list of musicians, bands, and DJs available for a specific date, price, and genre, and allows users to request to book ...
Users of YouTube wanting to avoid advertisements and commercials when watching videos on the platform will now be able to do so at a fee. This will be possible through a new paid offing that YouTube is planning to launch before the end of the year. The new update will ...
Nairobi-based online music distribution platform Mdundo has expanded to South Africa, Ghana and Nigerian in a move to fulfil its pan-African dream of helping artists distribute and monetize their music. Speaking to TechMoran, Thiru Mungai, Mdundo's head of operations said, "Ghana, South Africa and Nigeria are known to be some ...
With 600,000 subscribers in place in Latin America and having emerged as the largest source of digital revenues for the music industry in Colombia, Millicom's Tigo Music service is set to launched in Ghana this last quarter bundled as part of pre-paid data plans. Tigo Music will offer unlimited music ...
Image:outofthebags.com Founded in 2011, Cameroon's Adelrick has combined AI and GSM technologies to create MuZik, a value-added service, which make mobile phone subscriber’s life more easier, by providing the right music or information , automatically grabbed on Internet, for feature mobile phone (without data plan) first, ...
Cairo's Qleek allows one to share with people their digital life by putting their most beloved songs, films and photographs in the real world. According to the founders Johanna Hartzheim, Pierre-Rudolf Gerlach and Ismail Salhi, "Not so long ago, playing a song, a film and browsing photographs began with a ...
Fally Ipupa, Lingala musician A good story never dies, that is what I have grown up to know. I remember, once while still young and curious, my visiting grandfather would tell us bravely about the wars he fought as an African Rifles soldier, the friends he ...
Seems guys at Gidilounge are committed to giving music lovers the easiest way to listen to their favorite tracks and help them find new music that they’ll love. The crew just announced their music app is now available for Android and iOS. "It is with great pleasure to announce the ...
KasiMp3, South African music startup helping musicians earn royalties by making their music available for free download has reported receiving over 500,000 unique visitors last month, an over 80 percent high from its April 2013 figures. According to Tefo Mohapi, the Business Development and Public Relations lead at KasiMP3,“It has ...
KasiMP3, a web platform that allows music artists to earn royalties by sharing their music for free was founded in 2012 by Mokgethwa Mapaya, a South African with not just a heart for township music but as a way for the artists to earn royalties with ease. Now with over 30,000 ...
