According to Nigerian singer Chimamanda Pearl Chukwuma, aka Qing Madi, the music business is just as profitable as the “drug” sector.
In a recent episode of the Tea With Tay podcast, Madi stated that a single performance can earn an artist what the typical Nigerian worker makes in a year or years.
The 19-year-old claimed that music has given her financial independence, but she doesn’t show off her fortune online because she doesn’t want it to define who she is.
“Music money is not normal, it is like drug money. I don’t think people know how… And I’m not the person who would buy stuff and put on the media because I do think that that would change the narrative of what I am to the media. And I don’t like people looking at me and seeing money. But I am rich.
“The average Nigerian works 9-5 and earns maybe N500,000 at the end of the month, while as an artist, you do one show and get N20 million. Music money is huge,” she said.
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Madi said she believes the reason Nigerians love music could be due to the limited access to therapy in the country, stressing that a lot of people rely on music for therapy and escapism.
Nigerian online streamer and content creator Habeeb Hamzat, aka Peller, has spoken up about the burden of being the bread winner of his family.
In a recent conversation with fellow TikToker Sandra Benede, the 19-year-old lamented that he is the breadwinner of his family despite his parents and elder siblings being alive.
Peller expressed that because he is the one saddled with the family’s financial responsibilities, he sometimes feels like he is a parent.
I don’t like seeing my family, Peller laments becoming breadwinner
He explained that he now prefers sending his family money for upkeep as he doesn’t wish to see them anymore.
Peller said,
“I’m not feeling okay. The other day, I slept off in my car till the next morning. I don’t like what I am facing in this young age. I’m not even up to 20 years. It is not fair.
