http://www.premiumtimesng.com/arts-entertainment/music/189820-why-we-stopped-airing-p-square-music-videos-soundcity-tv.html

Nigerian cable and terrestrial music channel,
Soundcity, has cleared the air on why it stopped airing videos by Nigeria’s pop twins, P-Square, since January this year.


The television channel was responding to an outburst by Peter Okoye, one half of the group, to a fan on Twitter who had complained about the lack of P-Square videos on Soundcity TV.

“Don’t waste ur time dear… They will not play them … Pls keep watching Trace TV, Mtvbase, HipTv nAfropop. Thanks,” Peter Okoye had responded to the fan via his Twitter handle on Thursday.

But in a statement titled, “What has Soundcity ever done for P-Square?

” the urban music channel said the decision to stop airing the pop duo’s music videos was due to their failure to attend to one of their events, last year.

“For 10 years, @SoundcityTV has been a huge supporter of #PSquare brand, right from their 1st music video to the last video released in 2014. Most of their videos got massive airplay on @SoundcityTV than any other music channel,” the TV station said in the statement published on its website.

The statement noted that the station had assisted the P-Square brand, toured with them all over Africa at their own expense, given them ad-spots for their events as well as prime time slots for their videos.

“We invited #PSquare to one of our annual events last December 2014 and they insisted we pay a certain amount of money,” the statement continued.

“We reasonably asked, what is the least we can offer?

This was us foregoing the fact that we had invested a lot in #PSquare’s career as music talents/artistes and entertainers.

“The feedback was ‘What has Soundcity ever done for P-Square? Tell me one thing Soundcity has ever done for PSquare’ (Jude Okoye, Manager).


“While we understand that this is business, there is also room for special consideration. Saying our TV brand has never done anything for #Psquare was quite damning. Clearly, there was no need to argue with their decision.

“We decided to stop doing anything with/for #PSquare, since our 10 years of supporting the group meant nothing to them. We assumed our relationship was a mutually beneficial one, but clearly one-sided.

“Ultimately, #PSquare music videos stopped airing on @SoundcityTV since January 01, 2015. Soundcity reserves the right to air music videos on our cable/ satellite or terrestrial platforms.”

You air or not,their fortunes must continue to grow.

Na God not Man!!!

Umu oma ride on!!!

K

Ok.

How e take concern us?

Na them sabi. P Square will continu to wax stronger

Shioooor

Sound city dey funny o! without these musicians how do you exist? Did you produce the videos for them or even pay royals for them at all? Very funny lot. Who even watch sound city these days? Time to totally blacklist them

How e take konsine me,ehn next!!!

Ibo boys sha... Sotey dem bill to show for red carpet

The only reason I watch soundcity/ONTV is not for their music videos but for their other programmes. Whether they play music videos of Psquare or not,e no consign me!

One advice for ONTV which is owned by SC, they should stop repeating films and show to us films we haven't watched before.

1acre:
You air or not,their fortunes must continue to grow.

Na God not Man!!!

Umu oma ride on!!!

You are wrong.



Manna no longer fall from heaven.




God's blessing comes through people.

Not cool psquare

do me I do u man no go vex...na even p square talk am!

Either you air it or not, they are already made men.


But will this stop them from repeating words in their mediocre songs?

Wizkid and bracet should also be banned from music completely cos nothing good comes out from their mouth.

MMBM

Bumkum!

U want them to perform free at Ur event, cos they are father Christmas. When they asked what u have done for them to warrant giving u special consideration u pick offence.

They use their money to shoot the videos u air, and u feed from their huzzle. U are the losser!

P-square keeps waxing strong!

Humility in success is an important virtue.

permsec:
Either you air it or not, they are already made men.


But will this stop them from repeating words in their mediocre songs?

Wizkid and bracet should also be banned from music completely cos nothing good comes out from their mouth.

Forget how much they have, dia music aint good music. Some ppl will tell u dey don't like Asa's music, simply because it doesn't have dia bum bum and tu ke tu ke shaking rhythm. Her music is too good. I pray artistes in naija get to b beta one day

Most people wouldn't see the obvious about this....but from that piece up there....it would be unfair to throw shades at SoundCity.

A good turn deserves another....and often times we let our damming pride blind us to the extent of spitting in the plates that once fed us.

For the young man saying it won't affect the money psquare is making....yes you are right....to an extent. But this is not about money at all. It's a case of loyalty.

My work is media related and I can tell you it costs a fortune to be on any TV platform. So it ain't like SoundCity ain't got their kinda money yea. Just that the duo is getting the fame into their heads now, and trust me, that ain't good for nobody. Same way it wasn't good for MJ my super rich childhood rockstar.

ogorkojo:

Forget how much they have, dia music aint good music. Some ppl will tell u dey don't like Asa's music, simply because it doesn't have dia bum bum and tu ke tu ke shaking rhythm. Her music is too good. I pray artistes in naija get to b beta one day

Eiher u like it or yes, they've made lot of money from music and have not improved a bit since their creation.

They are just commercialists simple.

Ok

olasmith10:
do me I do u man no go vex...na even p square talk am!

And Now! They are not standing by the words they spake.