Last week the internet was figuratively ablaze once the news of flavour's "Thankful" reportedly selling a million copies in 5 days hit the web. While giving my critique on this matter im gonna go straight to the point on why I think it's doubtely not possible... I noticed the blacklash Brymo got from flavour fans for critizing the issue of "Thankful" selling 1 million copies. while people deemed Brymo's act as being hateful I saw it as him coming off educating. Brymo as an experienced music artist was only trying to educate Nigerians on a fallacy like that. Straight to the point - in a country like Nigeria where free download is endorsed even by musicians themselves; who give away their music for free online - And also country where piracy is just about the leading vehicle in distributing music to the final consumers makes it tough for the original copies to survive in lots of pirated copies. Why is this so? That's because when albums are released to the market, once the pirated copies of those albums as well hit the market the original copies are swallowed up by the pirated copies because the pirated copies tend to sell out faster and more because the price is normally cheaper than the originals and of course everyone would not just love to get anything at a steep amount. I read somepeople here write something like "Nigeria is a country of 150 million, selling 1 million copies in 5 days is possible", Oh really how about America a country of over 300 million where selling that kind of amount in a week is very difficult for almost all A-list music artists. Taylor swift's "1989" sold 1.2million in its first week according to Nielsen soundscan in a developed country of over 300 million where internet facilities is common in almost every home, flavour sold 1 million in an underdeveloped country where internet facilities is available just about 25% of the country population of 170 million. Why am I emphasizing on the ''internet facility''? Flavour pulled a Beyonce when he released his album; no hype, no promotion and no warning prior to the album release; even up just before now im writing this, I had no idea flavour even had an album out. When beyonce released "BEYONCE" the news about the release literally plastered at every tom, dick and harry of the internet of course such exposure for an album translates to sales. On the other hand, Flavor with no exposure like the afformentioned claimed to sell jaw dropping number of copies in a country where more than half of the populace don't even know nothing about the internet. So how did flavour sell 1 million when he did not have a massive online promo? People always remind us that Nigeria is 170 million yet they forget that more than half of the populace live in the rural areas where there is no internet and these people have to be aware of what's new in the market before they determine if they will be buying. Also they are forgeting the population of the young demographic (just about 60 million in the 18-49 demograhic) in Nigeria who are the music buyers and not necessarily the aged demographic. In summary nearly a half of the Nigerian populace is plagued by poverty and illitracy these two are determining factors to number of sales made by any music artist. And also Nigeria doesn't have a computer that tracks sales like the whites do.; Nigerian label executives and artists don't even know the number of copies they sell. In final summary Nigerians believe in illegal download, a Nigerian would rather download something for free than buying it. Among the literate Nigerians that have access to the internet im pretty sure about 97.9% downloaded the album for free while the remainder Nigerians who have no internet did not buy the album that first 5 days because they weren't aware it was out, cuz the only way to be aware is through the internet and even if they did buy, chances of them buying a pirated copy is very high. Even if flavor did sell a million copies, no one in this country including obaino is in a substantial position to say the album did sell a million because no one know can provide a substantial backing to prove that the album sold a million. While gullible Nigerians believe that flavor sold a milli, im proud to say i don't; until Nigeria begins tracking musical datas in a civilized form i won't believe whatever sales data they provide.

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@ Op, I tire oo, people can lie ehh. It's either he did dat to impress or his marketers r deceiving him, I love flavour like crazy but abeg naa sofry sofry wit d lies

xandyE:
@ Op, I tire oo, people can lie ehh. It's either he did dat to impress or his marketers r deceiving him, I love flavour like crazy but abeg naa sofry sofry wit d lies

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