₦airaland Forum

Sundaymessi:
so artists has the right to breach validly existing contracts and still expects their royalties to be fully paid?
Wonderful!

Josepholome is one of those blind people who refuse to see beyond their noses.

Let him go and form a record label and let us see if he will be happy with what mercy chinwo did.

Iykenuwa:
Just see how bitter you sound over an issue that doesn't concern you in any way.

May God have mercy on your miserable soul.

You expect everyone to be an emotional idiot like you? Go and tell your deceptive hero that people are not as stupid as she expected.

Go and form a record label and let's see what you will do if your signee do what Mercy Chinwo did to this guy to you.

Omoawoke:
She said she has God, and he has bloggers…

No mercy, you have bloggers, EFCC and definitely so many dickers

Mercy you are a liar and a thief!! Same goes for all of them.
Church na money making organization… they are like a drug cartel. They will fight to defend their source of income and the good news is that the industry prosper because of the large markets of idiots (gullible followers) ready to submit their brain to be deceived

Your comment is filled with so much hate and frustration

Emancipate yourself from hate so you can start enjoying your life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXBLGxadfkg

Ojuntana:
What useless millions do they spend to launch careers

Most of you write as if the artistes contribute nothing and only sleep while the label bosses do all the hard work
If it easy the bosses too should enter studio and sing. I remember one label boss tried that and we all know how it turned out.

How can a label claim 100% royalty.

Simple question. In your own view, who should own rights to a song? The artist or the label?

The rights to a song belong to the music label because they financed and commissioned it!

Ojuntana:
I saw the video
The question is why link the church to a purely business disagreement between a music label and their star. Is this the first of such disagreement?
Can you think beyond bigotry? Cause it seems your grouse with mercy is that she's a gospel music star and not the main issue.

FYI I saw the video and I've read the story. The label is wrong. Nowhere in any sane society does a label take 100% royalty. Not even the Sony or Universal records of this world do that.

The label bosses in Nigeria are just criminal. MJ's family is still benefiting from his royalties till today

No where in the story is the label said to be taking 100% royalty. As a matter of fact, it's 50/50 deal they have, which no label anywhere in the world will be magnanimous to give to any artists.


The label only withheld 100% of the royalty after they discovered that the artist had been going to shows and pocketing the money.

I think you are hitherto oblivious of the true story

Kobicove:
The rights to a song belong to the music label because they financed rand commissioned it!

The guys needs some education on how things work in the music industry.


2: His opinions are beclouded with emotions with a touch of ignorance (no offense)

004gist:
Nigerians are sentimental.

Mercy Chinwo was signed into a contract.. With 50/50 revenue formula.

2022/2023 royalty was paused why?
Mercy was going for event behind back take revenue 100%

She froze the label account. Arrest the boss for 9 days.

Collected over 270k US Dollars while the boss was in detention.

Only admit to collect just 3500 dollars. After all the collaboration n church programme she went

Boss said no, let them audit both accounts to cross check. Mercy no gree.

Mercy wants to even collect all music catalogue (including YouTube n all social accounts)

And you knew all these how?

Don’t get carried away when woman who got deceived by devil is singing

emmabest2000:
She don make the dude popular

If not for this misunderstanding many never hear his name before

Who said he's into popularity business? He's a manger not an artiste

AngelsArena:
No where in the story is the label said to be taking 100% royalty. As a matter of fact, it's 50/50 deal they have, which no label anywhere in the world will be magnanimous to give to any artists.


The label only withheld 100% of the royalty after they discovered that the artist had been going to shows and pocketing the money.

I think you are hitherto oblivious of the true story

So what right does the label have to withhold the royalty
Is royalty a payment for good behaviour?

Kobicove:
The rights to a song belong to the music label because they financed and commissioned it!

That's a lie. Under intellectual property rights, the rights to a song belong to the musician. It is the rights to the production that belongs to the label
You lots don't know anything
They are two different things

emmy512:
Contract states 50 50

Eze withheld because she went against their agreement and forced him to pay 274k dollars while also refusing an audit on her account

Will you accept an audit on your personal account from your company?
Why should Eze hold her money till she cried out?

emmy512:
Doesn’t matter who should own.
It’s business
Based on agreement any of them can own

Wrong
An artist own the rights to a song

Omoawoke:
Which one is jealousy in the name of God 🤣

That’s the best your little brain could bring out

It’s easy to identify nonentities and never do wells… everything to them is about jealousy, inferiority complex, haters… talk of issues and face something critically, they will change the subject to jealousy…
Common bro, you can do better

If you were not jealous why call her names because she had disagreements on a business level

Are you part of EzeTee's crew or is your money in his business

You're just a jealous rat. What does her fidelity have to do with the disagreements?

What does church have to do with it?.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself for your inability to take the fact that a woman is successful

You can go and kill yourself that you have to defame her

Asswipe

004gist:
What do u even know about entertainment world?

Ur talk is like as banks agree to fund dangote refinery why didn't the bank go to their families n fund them to own a refinery. Or why will Chelsea sign a player for heavy fee why they bring someone related to the owners
U see where ur sense end


If u don't know what publicity is all about. Zenith bank for example spend ₦2.3 billion for advertisement last year.



Don Jazzy, a renowned Nigerian music producer and CEO of Mavin Records, once disclosed that investing in a new artist can range from ₦50 million to ₦100 million within a year.https://newtelegraphng.com/it-costs-n50-to-n100m-signing-new-artist-don-jazzy/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

An example of PR boosting was when Naira marley helped Zinoleesky, acquired a brand new Chevrolet Camaro valued at approximately ₦22 million

On global stage
In 2018, Warner Bros. Records signed Lil Pump for $8 million after his song "Gucci Gang" went viral.

Or u think u just carry ur dry voice enter studio go sing? All are entertainment.. Its expensive

Your sense ends where mine begins

You were the knucklehead who asked why she didn't go to her family members to sponsor her. Simple question is whether she was not already a singer before EzeTee met her

That is zenith bank's problem. Don jazzy is free to call any amount he likes. The question is if anyone would have known Don Jazzy and his label I'd he did not produce talents. The music makes the label not the other way round
Tell Don Jazzy to enter studio make we see

And who told you Naira Marley wholly paid for the car. You lots don't know anything

I'm happy you were sensible to add "after his music went viral". You buttress my point. No music label will sign a musician with no prospects in the industry

osuofia2:
Nigerians are too emotional, they don't do critical analysis. Even though, I know this is a sponsored post against ezetee.
For the record, record labels owners spend a lot of money before many artistes get fame, some may not get the fame and make money which is a loss to the label.
Rekado banks, Run town, Korede Bello, lil Kesh etc. See as their career get Kwashiokor. Our musician should learn to seperate label business from music. Your talent is useless without the push from the label.
Tell me wetin Rema de sing but see as he de blow up and down. They keep pushing his trash to our nose till we all started liking his music.
Rekado banks is a better artist compare to Rema but when he started getting money, he left his label now he is struggling

Oga as much as i agree with some of your views, Reekado banks did his contract and moved on same as korede bello, infact Tiwa savage was also free to leave But she decided to stay back
Some record label dont like holding on to artist for long, olamide release Adekunle gold upon say e blow, Davido released Mayorkun, peruzzi ... every exit is not a fall out

IamAsiri:
And you knew all these how?

Evidence full ground.


Go very dark man page on Instagram and see evidence with receipt

Ojuntana:
All these clowns defending rapacious music label bosses so not realise that most of the musical groups in this country from plantashun Bois to psquare broke up because of the greed of the label bosses.

Most of those labels are exploitative. They have led to the waste of so many talents. Mohbad is one who had to pay with his life out of their excesses.

If Nigeria was a sane society, how can you take 100% of a musician's royalties. Even big football brands such as Man utd or RM don't dare do that to their stars.

All such contracts are illegal. They are slavery and exploitative and should be cancelled

@boldened: was she blind or uneducated when signing the contract? It’s a simple thing. Don’t breach agreements. Leave this contract self, this is an attitude that would extend to other areas of her life that involves agreements.

I love Mercy Chinwo and I was supporting and rooting for her when this issue started but listening and seeing all what she did, I started seeing her in another way and she’s the manipulative one!


With the level of evidence concerning this case, if you’re still sentimental then it shows the kind of person one is, one’s level of critical thinking, and one’s stance on fairness.


*because of greed, you went behind your label to get gigs (there was no issue prior to this between the two parties)

*the label found out and told you to come open, you locked him up, collected about $274k in royalties from him forcefully and only remitted $3.5k from your illegal gigs outside

*as if that’s not enough, you still demanded all your catalogue and since that’s not working, you came online to paint him bad.

YOU DON’T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE AN EXTREMELY SMART OR SANE PERSON TO JUDGE THIS CASE FAIRLY.

Now I understand why Nigeria is like this. Full of so many people who know the right thing to do but just choose otherwise. Soon you’ll start blaming Tinubu! If you support Mercy on this and still blame Tinubu then you are a confused, hypocritical, biased, and dishonest human being. But if not, well, then we know exactly who and what you are

Truly Nigerians are foolish and so emotional.

Religion has captivated our thinking that we see gospel artist or man of God as saints that can't lie or steal.

An idiot came to the Honest Bunch Podcast, and said all manner of rubbish, as if he was there when the contract was signed.

In a working society, Mercy Chinwo ought to have been behind bars for breach of contract.

Rubbish.

Ojuntana:
Your sense ends where mine begins

You were the knucklehead who asked why she didn't go to her family members to sponsor her. Simple question is whether she was not already a singer before EzeTee met her

That is zenith bank's problem. Don jazzy is free to call any amount he likes. The question is if anyone would have known Don Jazzy and his label I'd he did not produce talents. The music makes the label not the other way round
Tell Don Jazzy to enter studio make we see

And who told you Naira Marley wholly paid for the car. You lots don't know anything

I'm happy you were sensible to add "after his music went viral". You buttress my point. No music label will sign a musician with no prospects in the industry

That's why i called u mumu..
Any business idea without money dies or don't go far. They are called financier. And upcoming musicians look up to them to help finance their business. They are the investors who put their money on the line. Not only that they already have experience and structures on ground who knows how to bring the best out.

After dbanj left Marvin how many hits did he successfully bring out? What about Cynthia Morgan how many hit did she bring out? We can go on and on.

The Mr eezee t concept u are tackling have been in the business for long before mercy ever enter music. He has managed Frank Edwards successfully for years far back and some other big names in the industry.

Greedy woman !!!

Life youdont live is easy to judge. As no be yoube the artist, you can say it's sponsored post. Na today labe owners don dey rip artists?

osuofia2:
Nigerians are too emotional, they don't do critical analysis. Even though, I know this is a sponsored post against ezetee.
For the record, record labels owners spend a lot of money before many artistes get fame, some may not get the fame and make money which is a loss to the label.
Rekado banks, Run town, Korede Bello, lil Kesh etc. See as their career get Kwashiokor. Our musician should learn to seperate label business from music. Your talent is useless without the push from the label.
Tell me wetin Rema de sing but see as he de blow up and down. They keep pushing his trash to our nose till we all started liking his music.
Rekado banks is a better artist compare to Rema but when he started getting money, he left his label now he is struggling

It's more gullible and idiotic coming to address the consumers of gospel music as gullible.
I'm not even a fan of her music but she is talented, people naturally want to consume whatever she brings.

Omoawoke:
She said she has God, and he has bloggers…

No mercy, you have bloggers, EFCC and definitely so many dickers

Mercy you are a liar and a thief!! Same goes for all of them.
Church na money making organization… they are like a drug cartel. They will fight to defend their source of income and the good news is that the industry prosper because of the large markets of idiots (gullible followers) ready to submit their brain to be deceived

A pleasant day to you.

I wonder why the following statements are used concerning people:

"Nigerians are foolish...."
"Nigerians are gullible..."
Nigerians have low IQ...", etc.

What are you? Somalian?

I guess there are a lot of opinionated people, however, if you feel the need to have an opinion on someone else's matter, you can state it openly instead of making comments as if you were there when their contracts began.

This is a business deal gone bad. Our opinion really doesn't matter. If the record label made payments via the EFCC or any govt body that allowed it, it simply means it was legal cause that govt body won't want to face a backlash by getting sued.

Concerning the fact that a record label "helped" the artist to "blow"? Wow! This is a business deal. This was strictly a business deal. Nobody helped anybody. We go into business to make profit, thank God, the company was enriched and the artist was enriched also. It is a win.

Now, there is a disagreement, whoever advised Mercy Chinwo to bring it online, did a bad job. Bloggers will say anything and do anything to get content and trend, it is your image that will be damaged. You are not a circular musician, you are a gospel artist, please, know the difference. There are some things you can do and some you don't have to do. Handle it legally and quietly.

Same goes for Eezee Concepts. I love your artist, they are very good with their careers, let's not mess up this wonderful work that God is doing through you.

God bless you All.

Ojuntana:
Will you accept an audit on your personal account from your company?
Why should Eze hold her money till she cried out?

If I have nothing to hide I will accept.
Most especially if it proves I did not break my agreement with the label by getting gigs outside and not remmiting

Do you understand what the business part of things means .

It happens everywhere, osinmen is in turkey now cos of his label(his club)

Ojuntana:
All these clowns defending rapacious music label bosses so not realise that most of the musical groups in this country from plantashun Bois to psquare broke up because of the greed of the label bosses.

Most of those labels are exploitative. They have led to the waste of so many talents. Mohbad is one who had to pay with his life out of their excesses.

If Nigeria was a sane society, how can you take 100% of a musician's royalties. Even big football brands such as Man utd or RM don't dare do that to their stars.

All such contracts are illegal. They are slavery and exploitative and should be cancelled

osuofia2:
Nigerians are too emotional, they don't do critical analysis. Even though, I know this is a sponsored post against ezetee.
For the record, record labels owners spend a lot of money before many artistes get fame, some may not get the fame and make money which is a loss to the label.
Rekado banks, Run town, Korede Bello, lil Kesh etc. See as their career get Kwashiokor. Our musician should learn to seperate label business from music. Your talent is useless without the push from the label.
Tell me wetin Rema de sing but see as he de blow up and down. They keep pushing his trash to our nose till we all started liking his music.
Rekado banks is a better artist compare to Rema but when he started getting money, he left his label now he is struggling

I agree with you 200%. it's not only emotion, most lack the ability of critical thinking and not jumping in the bandwagon.

AngelsArena:
No where in the story is the label said to be taking 100% royalty. As a matter of fact, it's 50/50 deal they have, which no label anywhere in the world will be magnanimous to give to any artists.


The label only withheld 100% of the royalty after they discovered that the artist had been going to shows and pocketing the money.

I think you are hitherto oblivious of the true story

Who told you no label in the world will agree to 50/%0? Where did you get that from?

Jerrick:
@boldened: was she blind or uneducated when signing the contract? It’s a simple thing. Don’t breach agreements. Leave this contract self, this is an attitude that would extend to other areas of her life that involves agreements.

I love Mercy Chinwo and I was supporting and rooting for her when this issue started but listening and seeing all what she did, I started seeing her in another way and she’s the manipulative one!


With the level of evidence concerning this case, if you’re still sentimental then it shows the kind of person one is, one’s level of critical thinking, and one’s stance on fairness.


*because of greed, you went behind your label to get gigs (there was no issue prior to this between the two parties)

*the label found out and told you to come open, you locked him up, collected about $274k in royalties from him forcefully and only remitted $3.5k from your illegal gigs outside

*as if that’s not enough, you still demanded all your catalogue and since that’s not working, you came online to paint him bad.

YOU DON’T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE AN EXTREMELY SMART OR SANE PERSON TO JUDGE THIS CASE FAIRLY.

Now I understand why Nigeria is like this. Full of so many people who know the right thing to do but just choose otherwise. Soon you’ll start blaming Tinubu! If you support Mercy on this and still blame Tinubu then you are a confused, hypocritical, biased, and dishonest human being. But if not, well, then we know exactly who and what you are

Is there an exclusivity clause in the contract? You are asking for her to obey contract terms but you are not asking for the other side to do same. Why will he withold her royalty? That is pure greed and wickedness

You claimed she only remitted $3.5k. Do you have evidence it should be more than that? Were you there when she remitted the said sum?

You said there's a level of evidence, kindly show the evidence. You judged the case fairly right? Show the evidence you used to arrive at your conclusion

004gist:
That's why i called u mumu..
Any business idea without money dies or don't go far. They are called financier. And upcoming musicians look up to them to help finance their business. They are the investors who put their money on the line. Not only that they already have experience and structures on ground who knows how to bring the best out.

After dbanj left Marvin how many hits did he successfully bring out? What about Cynthia Morgan how many hit did she bring out? We can go on and on.

The Mr eezee t concept u are tackling have been in the business for long before mercy ever enter music. He has managed Frank Edwards successfully for years far back and some other big names in the industry.

That is why you are the mumu
That you are the financier does not mean you own the artiste. Did you know the Mr Eazee before now? It takes a good artiste for a music label to blow. If you don't know that, then you know nothing. A music label with bad artistes will never blow.
When did EezeeT manage frank Edwards. Stop the lies pls.
So you mean all the artistes who left the record labels are greedy abi. Ok how are the labels doing without Dbanj and Cynthia Morgan now?

emmy512:
If I have nothing to hide I will accept.
Most especially if it proves I did not break my agreement with the label by getting gigs outside and not remmiting

If you have nothing to hide? Well, that's your level of intelligence. Your personal account is no one's business. If you do not understand what privacy means that's your cup of tea.
Again, can any of you show where it is written in black and white that you cannot do outside gigs in their contract agreement?