Spotify identifies Olamide, Ice Prince, Odumodublvck, Zlatan, Blaqbonez as most streamed Nigerian hip hop artists
Online music streaming platform, Spotify has identified Nigerian musicians Olamide, Ice Prince, Blaqbonez, Zlatan and Odumodublvck as the most streamed Nigerian hiphop artists on their platform. Olamide is a well known Nigerian musician and record executive. He is the founder and acting YBNL record label which has signed many big artists today.
Olamide
It was MrVictor Okpala who is Spotify’s Artist and Label Partnerships Manager for West Africa who revealed this information over the weekend. He shared this via a statement which was released on Friday September 1st.
He mentioned that Hip Hop has achieved global prominence which has extended to Nigeria. He shared that it isn't surprising that Nigeria has a place in the Hip hop listenership landscape of Africa. According to him Nigerian comes after South Africa in this regard.
Blaqbonez
In his words “The spotlight falls on Olamide, Odumodublvck, Blaqbonez, Zlatan and Ice Prince as the most streamed within the realm of Nigerian Hip hop. Nigeria’s patriotism in music is evident as most streamed Hip hop artistes are Nigerians, unlike regions such as Kenya and South Africa where international hit-man, Drake, leads. Hip hop is one of the most popular music genres in the world and it continues to have an input in newer genres and music movements springing up in Nigeria and around the world"
Zlatan
He also revealed the statistics of Hip hop listeners saying they ranged between 18 and 24 years followed by ages 25 to 29.
He also shared that Nigerian Hip hop became popular in the 1990s and this was with artistes like Modenine, Naeto C, Bouqui, Ruggedman, Eedris Abdulkareem, eLDee, Sasha P etc.
Online music streaming platform, Spotify has identified Nigerian musicians Olamide, Ice Prince, Blaqbonez, Zlatan and Odumodublvck as the most streamed Nigerian hiphop artists on their platform. Olamide is a well known Nigerian musician and record executive. He is the founder and acting YBNL record label which has signed many big artists today.
Olamide
It was MrVictor Okpala who is Spotify’s Artist and Label Partnerships Manager for West Africa who revealed this information over the weekend. He shared this via a statement which was released on Friday September 1st.
He mentioned that Hip Hop has achieved global prominence which has extended to Nigeria. He shared that it isn't surprising that Nigeria has a place in the Hip hop listenership landscape of Africa. According to him Nigerian comes after South Africa in this regard.
Blaqbonez
In his words “The spotlight falls on Olamide, Odumodublvck, Blaqbonez, Zlatan and Ice Prince as the most streamed within the realm of Nigerian Hip hop. Nigeria’s patriotism in music is evident as most streamed Hip hop artistes are Nigerians, unlike regions such as Kenya and South Africa where international hit-man, Drake, leads. Hip hop is one of the most popular music genres in the world and it continues to have an input in newer genres and music movements springing up in Nigeria and around the world"
Zlatan
He also revealed the statistics of Hip hop listeners saying they ranged between 18 and 24 years followed by ages 25 to 29.
He also shared that Nigerian Hip hop became popular in the 1990s and this was with artistes like Modenine, Naeto C, Bouqui, Ruggedman, Eedris Abdulkareem, eLDee, Sasha P etc.