The waakye seller this morning is upset with this mentally challenged man she feeds for free everyday. He hasn't been coming to eat for a week now. Turns out he has a banku seller on another street who has been feeding him for free. That's a community taking care of its own.
Ga communities and how they spread music is something we should study. If you go to pubs there, you will notice that they have their own hits you won’t hear anywhere else.
Blacko’s success proves to distribution companies and record labels that prioritizing Ghanaian content the same way they prioritize Nigerian music can deliver the results they want. This is a big moment.
Someone started a teaser campaign without a reveal so another guy took advantage of it announced himself. The real owner is now late to their own campaign. It’s funny
The owners of Papaye are too complacent for the industry they are in. No Advertising, no gidigidi expansion, no customer experience in their restaurants. I am buying some this week though
I need the kids and families of owners of these songs to distribute them on music platforms. This value of this song is like your father leaving you a land in Osu.
Last time I said something about Legon students not attending career programs on campus, someone said the organizers should make it attractive for them to come. Like make Unilever take Vyrusky come campus or what? There is recreation on your iris
Mid 40s men should learn a thing or two from the Wanderlust team. When the money piles up, spend it on adventures and memories. Stop competing with the poor Uni boys and leave their girls alone.
King Promise had Sark and Mugees on CCTV. He has 4.3 million views on YouTube. Kuami Eugene on a solo track comes out a month later and has 6.9 million views for Wish Me Well. The guy’s numbers are unbelievable!!!!
Only a talented Director like Ramesh can work with a kid like this but what’s beautiful is the mother’s presence in every shot even though we don��t see her face. It’s the kind of detail a Pro Director will work with.
One day I will talk about how GH media run a silly uninformed agenda about Sark and other major Artists jumping on remixes of new Artists and eventually slowed the rate of emerging Talents we got every year. The media created the problem and never solved it.
There is nothing alarming here guys. The fact that Ghana is a major Cocoa Export country doesn’t mean Ghanaians eat the most chocolate in the world. The countries there are all bigger markets
Ghanaian singer
@Gyakie_
shared her Spotify Wrapped with Nigeria being the country that streamed most of her music.
Her native country Ghana was fifth on the list.
#SpotifyWrapped2023
I believe a huge part of elitist lifestyle includes pretending to like what elites like because why would you be out watching people fight as entertainment.
@anguahA
In the Bible some angels were cast down to earth, they later became spirits wandering the surface of the earth. People believe they are the spirits in African Traditional religion.
I tire how you guys dey overlook what Ghanaian Artistes dey do then act so impressed when your foreign favorites do the least thing. What’s so impressive about trotro branding?
Patapaa was interviewed on Xylophone radio in Twi. The guy is actually interesting. He had a lot of insightful things to say. Interviewing the guy in English makes him look dumb.
It's not his language!
Shatta: These Ghanaians dey bore me. I no want do track this December
Engineer: chaley the beat be nice just say something
Shatta: Shatta, Shatta, Shatta, Shatta
Engineer: 😳 it lef the bridge. Just put some lyrics
Shatta: My name is Shatta Wale 😒
Tictac was so huge that Gil Green who used to shoot music videos for DJ Khaled at the time was in Ghana to shoot for him, he had an album and shot a video for every song on it. Ghana Nigeria collaboration became a thing from his hit song with Tony Tetuila.
🚨⏮️🇬🇭🎶: It’s the year 2000. Tic Tac &
@iamobrafour
were slated to perform at Trade Fair for a music concert.
Joy FM’s Kwame Bampoe is the MC; he jokingly tells the crowd that the two superstars were not gonna perform.
The crowd gets angry, go on a rampage & vandalize…
Joe Mettle will also benefit from another generation’s nostalgia but he changed the game. He bridged the gap between traditional and contemporary gospel music in Ghana.
If only we could have an integrated social campaign using these bottles. Big bottles like this placed around the entrance of expensive restaurants and hotels, next to newscasters as they read the news; places where influential people go and what they watch.
The interesting thing about music pundits in Ghana who claim to understand music is that when you listen to the music made by Artists they manage, you really wonder where all that expertise was during the studio session.
From all the TL conversation, if your parents or family member is a legend in gospel music, kindly ask them to digitize their songs. People love old gospel music
When I am very old, I will build a huge library where kids can come read all the books they want and be taught for free. I will have an office up there where I will script my movies and write my novels from. So help me God 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
There is no way this song will be made now, why? It’s too experimental, too localized, doesn’t fit the current afrobeats sound. These days, we focus too much on going global and we’ve lost our sauce.
Manifestivities was such a great concert. Simi’s live band, Burna’s energy, Sark’s surprise, King Promise, Kwasi Arthur, Efya. If there is any show not to miss next year, it’s definitely that.
Most of us understand how big corporations control factors of production and the market place in different industries but suddenly when it comes to GH music on streaming charts you assume it’s bad music quality. I will try to explain how platforms work like supermarkets (thread)
Ashesi students don’t joke with these Career Fairs ooh . You will see them interning at Goldman Sachs and Google. The world out here is too wild for you to be throwing away opportunities in school because they don’t look cool.
First time I bought this waakye, I stood for 40 mins and I was so upset, I told the woman I will never come again. But the waakye was so good and I am here again today. The seller looked at me and just said “Woara ankasa wob3ba” 😂😂😂
🚨⚡️🇬🇭: Starlink,
@elonmusk
’s internet satellite company arrives in Ghana by 2024, according to reports.
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The service is already in Nigeria & its users are experiencing gargantuan internet speeds, averaging 150MB/sec.
🦅🇬🇭
I hope someone makes a kid comic book about a character called Anas who brings down corrupt people and institutions. Maybe that will be a first step to teaching the younger ones about corruption and it's effects.
In 1983, when Ghana was experiencing famine, Daddy Lumba was enjoying ‘luxurious’ commodities like milk, canned fish, bags of rice etc, because Theresah Abebreseh, a rich contractor’s daughter, furnished him. She encouraged him to travel to Germany and paid part of the cost.
The data insights here is good. India is Netflix’s biggest market and Nigeria the biggest market in Africa. A film which appeals to their audience in both countries is gold 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
This scene is one of the reasons I think we should make a lot more local language films. You won’t find a Ghanaian English speaking film scene where the dialogue flows like this.
This music thing eerh, other countries are not doing any magic ooh but they PR the hell out of every activity. Our guys had a pretty good show at over the weekend in NY and the media here is so silent about it. We don’t help ourselves.
🚨ICYMI🇬🇭⚽️🎶:
@stonebwoy
interacts with English actor, comedian, singer, writer, producer, and television host, James Corden (
@JKCorden
) & some senior members of the management of
@WestHam
.
“Kudus had two goals; he should have come in earlier..”
🦅🇬🇭
Prez Rawlings’s rebranding really worked because how are you kids flirting with the idea of a coup? Older Ghanaians who actually experienced is will never ask for that.
Otan has had a clean sweep on streaming platforms. Sark did something similar with Country side last year, drop a big song in December and dominate the first quarter of the next year because major Artists release after second quarter so no competition.
GH English rappers will say something like “I am in a lamborghini with my 9mm popping haters with bullets” and when the song doesn’t hit they will say “Ghanaians don’t know good music” 😂😂😂😂we then you stay the Bronx there?
Nacee’s Aseda is in Ghana Apple Charts Top 10 today, it’s almost a miracle considering that most of his streams is organic. It’s a big moment for Gospel music in Ghana if you ask me. The gospel community should move and release music.
👨🏾🍳🇬🇭: I find it very surprising that Gyakie & Amaarae have not been nominated ever at the
@BET
Awards with the kinda work they’ve put in over the years.
The first & only Ghanaian female act to have been nominated(twice) for Best International Act was MzVee; the last being 2016.
A lot of us are not familiar with the marketing and distribution of gospel music so we question it when it’s recognized. But a hit gospel song is a biiig song
Good music is good music but marketing and promotion plays a huge role. There are millions of great music you will never hear about because it didn’t have some level of investment. That’s the conversation we should be having. The challenges independent Artistes face.
Your uncle/ parents in power outsource a contract to you, you make a lot of money, wear kaftans and share heavy quotes about how God has blessed you. The Ghanaian dream.
Coffee Lounge's only fault is that they give you value for your money. I now believe a service provider who told me that some people sold things to Ghanaians 3 times its value because that's the only way we respect a service or product. Sad!
A few years ago, whilst Blacko’s Money was performing impressively on Boomplay,he visited Boomplay office and even though we were telling him he had a big song, he didn’t believe it because he wasn’t hearing it outside. I am sure now he is tired of hearing his songs everywhere
The lady who sells drinks in my area has a baby girl. The kid is not even 2 years old.
Anyway, the woman calls her daughter Obaa Kokoor and the kid responds “Plantain Chips” 😂😂😂😂😂
Directed by a Ghanaian, Blitz. Executive produced by Spielberg and Oprah. This is a big win for our Creative Scene here. Let’s pull up to watch it in the cinemas like we did for Black Panther.
Netflix knew Squid Game will work from data insights from Money Heist.
-The costumes,
-the masks,
-people held captive,
-a mysterious mastermind character who has everything figured out.
I finally understand why Ghana has become an important market to music execs. We are open to music if it’s well marketed. An artistes has 3 big songs in NG and can host a paid show here, last year we jammed to Amapiano than SA sef.
@Koo_The_Boy
Colin Charles was the Creative Director on this ad. He also worked on aot of iconic ads in Ghana. In this interview for Design Ndaba he shares his advertising philosophies. Creative folks should watch this.
La Meme just had bad timing, they were a two years before streaming platforms became huge in Ghana and local Artists started receiving platform support. Those boys were world class talents. Superstars!
This level of craftsmanship is superhuman. Whatever I have to do to make sure a Ghanaian grown Artist commands such a global audience within 5 years, I will do it. We need this level of success in our industry.
🦍🇳🇬🎶: I’m a sucker for live band music; Burna Boy’s transitions and live music direction during his performances have constantly deepened my love for him and his craft. Just look at this…🤌🏾🥹🎶
🦅🇬🇭
#BurnaBoyAppleMusicLive