By Prince Osuagwu & Laju Iren

Nigerians love music. From the spirited worship on Sunday mornings to the loud blaring of speakers from night clubs on Friday nights, this truth rings on and on. However, love for music is not fully consummated when piracy comes into play. And in this digital age where everyone wants their favourite song on their mobile phones, piracy is not so difficult anymore.

This is where Mymusic.com.ng comes in. In a bid to make sure that musicians get paid for their content and also bypass the menace of piracy, Music.ng recently struck up a partnership to deliver music to millions of fans across the globe that yearn for Nigerian music.

Launching the music company in Lagos recently, Chief Operating Officer of the company, Mr. Damola Taiwo, said the website operates a two-step process where people can search for the music they want and download it simply by paying N30.00 from their phone credit.

On the reach of the website, he said:“For now, we have only Nigerian songs because we want to focus, and once we can get that right, we’ll move to other territories.”  Taiwo also disclosed that the country has signed necessary agreements with all artistes whose songs are on the website. He said: “We have signed agreements with all artistes; we make sure that all songs on our site are there legally and legitimately.”

Also speaking with Chief Operating Officer, COO, and Co-Founder of the company Dolapo Taiwo, revealed the plans the company has to checkmate hacking. He stated: “To prevent hacking, our technology is very strong. We’ve been building this for the past three years, and we focus so much on technology. We’ve separated the payment process from the download process even though it’s one and the same to the user.”

Meanwhile, the Chief Executive Officer and Co founder of the company, Mr Tola Ogunsola, told Glamtech that the site will make songs from the 60s and 70s available for download. According to him, “We’ve had very interesting conversations with record labels, and right now, we have the oldest record label in Nigeria on board which used to be Polygram, but is now called Premier Music.

We have digitized all their songs, and put it online. So if you’re looking for Victor Olaiya’s songs, and others like it, they’re all on our sites.” Meanwhile, popular On Air Personality, Olisa Adibua who is the Chief Strategic Officer of the company, will work with other veteran entertainment personalities such as DJ Jimmy Jatt to vet the music that make it to the site to make sure, that they’re of top quality.

Commending the creation of the site, well-known singer and Five Star Music Records Executive, Kcee stated that the platform was one that artistes have been looking forward to for a long time. In his words, “This is a nice initiative, and it’s really going to be beneficial to artistes. Definitely, we at Five Star Music will be coming on board, so that our true fans can get our music and pay for it in the proper way.”