Artiste Manager, Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson, popularly generally known as Bullgod, argues that music streaming in Ghana is hindered by costly knowledge prices and poor community high quality.
Speaking on TV3’s New Day, he acknowledged that the fixed enhance in knowledge costs and unreliable networks are main points that stop Ghanaians from streaming music.
Bullgod, who manages a number of profitable artists, believes that the dearth of accessible and reasonably priced knowledge limits the potential of Ghanaian music to succeed in a broader viewers. He notes that whereas Nigerian artistes can attain a world viewers, Ghanaian artistes face challenges that hinder their capability to compete.
“Nobody is sitting in Tarkwa or wherever where the network is even bad there will stream your music. Look we are in Accra and you know Accra is the hub and everybody make wild dey go find something. How many people will be streaming music?” Bullgod questioned.
“But out there, let’s say in the other regions if they are relaxing and they want to stream music, the thing will not even stream and you’ll see nor kpa your 10 cedis worth of data is gone. Who will try that thing?”
Bullgod insisted that the excessive value of knowledge and poor community high quality usually are not simply challenges for artistes, but in addition for music customers. He means that the federal government ought to intervene to handle these points and assist the music trade develop.
“Let’s talk about the matters and these are facts. Check your streams and you’ll know all is from outside. If you check, the reason why we don’t stream our music is because data is expensive. If the artistes are genuine with their analytics, they will tell you that most of their streams are from outside. Ghanaians living in the diaspora,” Bullgod mentioned.