Nigerian music industry is enjoying massive acceptance all over the globe. With Afrobeats taking the front seat, Nigerian artists are fast becoming headliners in major shows across the globe, shutting down some of the biggest stages, enjoying massive collabos with A- list musicians across the continent and signing mega cheques as brand ambassadors.

This meteoric rise has however not gone the way of indigenous show promoters, who consider the hundreds of thousands of dollars charged as performance fee too expensive, making it nearly impossible to book their services.

In a recent interview with News Central TV, Shallipopi one of the recent breakout stars from Nigeria’s fusion of Amapiano, Afrobeats, and Hip Hop, spoke in defense of his counterparts.

According to him, every artist is entitled to charge what he believes he deserves considering the success of the artist’s song.
“It depends on your music and where it has gotten that’s what your price is going to be,” Shallipopi says.

“If your music has gotten the same stream as an American artist, you should be charging the way they charge but if your stream is not up to that you cannot overcharge,” the hitmaker said disputing the popular narrative that Nigerian artists have overpriced themselves out of the affordability of Nigeria.

Concluding, he opines that artists who boast of same streams as their foreign counterparts, deserve to charge similar fees with these popular stars abroad.