Admin l Wednesday, October 04, 2017
IKEJA, Lagos, Nigeria – OkayAfrica has announced the official launch of the latest addition to its far-reaching brand: OKAYMUSIC.
Partnering with the music world’s most notable digital platforms, this brainchild of OkayAfrica brings a Digital Music Distribution and Marketing service to emerging and established artistes across Africa, its diaspora and from all around the world.
This, the organisation said gives access to all signed-up artists to upload their music on to every major digital platform, worldwide. Okaymusic was created with one simple goal: hands-on management of digital assets, thereby enabling artists to focus on the most important aspect of the music business; the art of making music.
“We understand the new digital landscape” says Abiola Oke, CEO of OkayAfrica and Okaymusic, “and will energetically defend artist’s rights while making their music available to a global audience.”
Okaymusic launched with an already-collated extensive catalogue of some of the best and freshest music from across Africa and its diaspora.
Having attained Apple Music Curator status, carefully curated playlists are uploaded every Wednesday, featuring the music of signed artistes and artists that we love on Apple Music. (https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/songs-you-need-to-hear-this-week/idpl.96a0f6d531a54cbb959cbc4442d310d0) as well as on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/user/okaymusicofficial/playlist/5urGb8f4feaFGCl55xgxkb) and on OkayAfrica (www.okayafrica.com) while Okaymusic’s YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz28x6KftwQ7k8ybmAgPnTw) will carry their latest videos.
Meanwhile, also launched yesterday, October 3rd 2017 is okaymusic.com, a website curating every signed artist with their biography, videos, photos, one minute extracts of their music and the ability to purchase and download individual songs or albums using a wide selection of currencies.
Amongst the artists already signed are: Nigerian superstar Innocent “2Baba” Idibia, top Nigerian producer DJ Spinall, Cameroonian star Numerica, Nigerian urban highlife singer/songwriter Adekunle Gold, Tanzanian superstar Vanessa Mdee, American supremo guitarist Gary Lucas, Nigerian chart busting songstress Niyola, Zimbabwean Reggae star Buffalo Souljah and Nigerian fast-rising producer Bankyondbeatz.
