The advent of advanced technology has altered the operations of a lot of industries and one of such is the music industry.
Back in the day, the number of record labels in Nigeria were proportional to the number of popular musicians in the country. But in the last decade, what we have witnessed is entirely inverse.
WIth heavyweights like; Wizkid, Olamide, Davido, Falz the Bahdguy, Maleek Berry etc taking the lead, musicians are now championing independent movements thereby slowly causing the record label business in Nigeria to decline.
In this episode of Vibes with Victor, Victor Okpala highlights the factors that have triggered this change and provides a discourse on the importance (or lack of importance) of record labels in this era.