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See Nigerian Musicians That Are Not Affected By The Current Econ
omic Recession?
By: Smartjohns Date: November 28, 2016, 5:03 am
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In one of Nigeria’s biggest downtime ever our artistes are still
leaving the lavish lifestyle like nothing is happening. It looks
like they are not affected by the ongoing recession crippling
the entire economy.
These artistes make their money from the patronage of the fans.
So therefore, so long as they keep remaining relevant and their
fans are still feeling them then the money would still keep
pouring in and they can afford to keep living the lavish
lifestyle.
But our artiste can be affected in terms of sales of ticket for
shows and concerts. Nobody would want to depart with his hard
earned money just to watch an artiste perform unless the ticket
money is cheap and reasonable.
Who would want to pay 5k t0 10k to watch 2face or Olamide at
this time of recession? I guess only very few people will.
Some top musicians own private jets while others fly first class
but with the current recession some of them might be affected.
Also Nigerian artistes have taken to selling their songs and
albums on itunes but right now how many Nigerians can afford to
buy a song or album with the rise of dollar.
The price has trippled because of the increase of dollar against
the naira. I’m sure most Nigerian musicians are really affected
by this. Musicians too sometimes live a fake life.
Not all artistes you see flashing big cars and blings in music
videos are really living that kind of lifestyle. So you may be
wondering what of all this B-list artiste, how are they faring
at a time like this when some people are finding it very hard to
even pay 5k to watch top A-list artistes not to talk of the
B-list and C-list artistes.
This is actually the wrong time to be a celebrity with little
money because you won’t be able to weather the harsh economy
crisis like an ordinary person.
Lets look at it this way, for example if I have a car and I
don’t have enough money to fuel it, I can easily hop on a bike
or danfo and I am good to go but a celebrity who is broke cannot
even try it. What of the hike in food prices. I can easily rush
to the market to buy some food stuffs to cook at home because
the cost of eating in a canteen now is very expensive but a
broke celebrity cannot try it.
He would still want to order food from Chinese restuarants or
any other big restuarant knowing how expensive their prices
would have gone up because of the recession.
So truly I don’t envy any celebrity musician right now. Artistes
like Wizkid, Davido, P-Square, 2face, Olamide, Falz and Tiwa
Savage don’t have any issue with the ongoing recession because *
they are top A-list artistes who are cashing out both in Nigeria
and abroad. I believe generally only very few celebrity
musicians are not affected by the brunt of the recession.
I can’t say for the rest but I’m sure they are not doing badly
too. They still get called up for shows atleast once or twice a
week. Are you an artiste and you have a bit of fame? How has the
economic recession affected you positively and negatively.
Share your experience with us, we would love to know if we are
all in this together.
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