The era where an artiste would release one or two singles and dominate the airwaves for the whole of a year or two is fast fading away. The Nigerian music industry has evolved and is now fast paced. Infact you need to have released an album to be called a true artiste. An average of 15 songs is released by the mainstream artistes every week. Throw the upcoming acts into the mix and we could be looking at say 60 or more songs being churned out into the Nigerian music ecosystem each week.

This high number of released material means the consumer has to sieve through numerous poorly produced songs in uncategorized genres to find a song they would love. This situation does not give the upcoming artiste a fair chance of survival. Who would waste his megabytes during this Buhari era to download a song from a relatively unknown act whose works and musical prowess has not been tested and certified OK? This only happens by accident or through the recommendation from someone whose sense of judgement in music matters is believed to be superb.

No wonder Nigerians love their Davidos, the Mr Eazis, Flavours Nabanias and Yemi Alades. Their loyal fans will love whatever song they put out even if all they say is Oyorima, Tumbum tumbum and Yaga! (Dear upcoming artiste, you need to find a unique angle to penetrate the market. Every other person is pretty much doing the same thing).

What about those established artistes who have been there without an album? They’re the ones we’re talking about today. In no particular order, here are 5 Nigerian musicians whose release of a new album is long overdue.

Ah! This is the one reputed to have faked his own death just for publicity. (I still think he fainted though. You can’t fake your own death just to blow) Skibii, you den tey small nau. Try release album. That could be the final blow move. It looks like sipping champagne in expensively shot music videos ain’t working for you.

General Pype

Before Burna Boy or Patoranking, he was there. General Pype is a pioneer in the new school reggae/dancehall genre, releasing hits which became the theme song for a major international soccer tournament. General Pype has so many hit songs to his name. Why is releasing an album so hard?
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