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YouTube Nigeria has released a list of the most watched videos in the country. A look at Nigerian favorite music videos in 2013, reveals that songs like Ada Ada by Flavour, Caro by Starboy feat L.A.X & Wizkid, Personally by P-Square, Jaiye Jaiye by Wizkid ft Femi Kuti and Eminado by Tiwa Savage ft Don jazzy were some of the most watched music videos in NIgeria in 2013. Comedy videos continue to top the charts with videos like The Interview by NdaniTV and Lagos Big Girl’s Game by VideoHitsShow’s featuringRead More
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After nearly 7 months since it first announced its new music player tagged the gPlayer, Gidilounge has finally said they are ready to release the next generation Gidilounge app into the wild in a few weeks. The new music streaming app will have all the features that where disclosed to the public at their October 10th event which included the ability to browse and create playlists, save their favorites and listen to a music Lounge (curated playlists) but in addition the app will allow users to discover new and upcoming artist,Read More
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The music video for “Gentleman”, Psy’s new single has hit over 70 million views within its first two days. The video stars Psy being silly as usual and all the wonderful colours of K-Pop. Only this time, he’s playing pranks on women around what we’d like to assume is Gangnam. Definitely not a gentleman. So here’s Gentleman from Psy. Do you think this can hit the 1.5 billion views Gangnam Style got? Leave us a comment.Read More
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YouTube has released a list of the most watched videos from its Nigerian viewership. Seven of them are music videos by Nigerian musicians. VConnect’s You Go Connect video went insanely viral and hit the number 8 spot. Here are the videos in descending order. 1. P-Square –  Chop My Money ft. Along, May D[Official Video] 2. D’Banj – Oliver Twist 3. P-Square – Beautiful Onyinye ft. Rick Ross [Official Video] 4. Bracket – Girl ft. Wizkid 5. Iyanya – Kukere[Official Video] 6. Sexy Criminal 7. Flavour – Oyi ft. TiwaRead More
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Nigerian music streaming service iROKING, has partnered with another social network 2go and launched yet another music site for the social network’s users. This is the second time iROKING is launching a mobile music website for users of a social network – it launched one for Eskimi users in December 2012. The mobile site, iroking.2go.im was developed by iROKING and brings the latest tracks to 2go users – allowing them download songs from their favorite Nigerian artistes for free. Keeping up with 2go’s low-cost approach, the website is light soRead More
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Nigerian music streaming and download service iROKING, has teamed up with mobile social network Eskimi to launch a mobile specific website exclusive to Eskimi users. The mobile site allows users stream music seamlessly as well as download their favorite tracks for free. The website still retains Eskimi’s key feature – allowing users chat with their friends via notifications in the header. It can be accessed via music.eskimi.com and content access requires an Eskimi login. This is a good move for both websites as iROKING can get its over 35,000 tracksRead More
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Posted On November 12, 2012By Victor NnejiIn Design, Media, Mobile, Music, Top Stories

Gidilounge Unveils All New gPlayer

  October 10th was a big day for Gidilounge as it unveiled to the public, big updates of some of its services. The Company’s CEO, Olumide Adewumi started off the event with the presentation of the company’s redesigned website followed by the all new gPlayer 2.0. The new site features an all new design and layout, the site automatically resizes to fit you browser window allowing it to still look and work good on mobile devices and it implements a technology called ‘cloud form integration’ which is a feature that allowsRead More
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Gidilounge, the company that brought you Africa’s first all mobile radio station and the popular Gidilounge music player is hosting an event on Saturday, November 10, to launch some new products. The event is said to be the unveiling of a major update to their Gidilounge Music Player which will be known as gPlayer 2.0. Gidilounge CEO, Olumide Adewumi, says the team spent months working around the clock to get it done and they are very excited to finally launch the product. The revamped music player is said to include features like userRead More
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  Nigerian local video content creator and publisher BattaBox has filed a copyright complaint to YouTube against a controversial video of Lagos by American rapper Rick Ross. Hold Me Back(Nigeria) tells the story of the slums and hustle in Lagos and has received criticisms from a large section of Nigerians. BattaBox as a YouTube advertising partner has certain privileges over copyright claims. In 2 tweets to me, BattaBox says part of its content was used in Rick Ross’ video. yes o! dem blame Naija for piracy so we won’t letRead More
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iROKO Partners’ music streaming and download service iROKING, has launched a mobile website specifically for its mobile audience and redesigned its desktop website. The Mobile Site The site can be reached at m.iroking.com. Users will also be redirected to the mobile site as soon as they enter iroking.com in their mobile browser. iROKING’s mobile site does not support streaming however and only allows users download low or high quality of tracks for free. If you’ve already signed up to iROKING, all you have to do is login. New users haveRead More