About few hours ago, social media went agog with music business beef between urban music channel Soundcity TV and pop music group P-Square, over the music channel of not playing their music video on their prestigious platform.
Half brother of P-Square music group Peter Okoye, took to social media to slam the urban music channel Soundcity TV of not playing their music video lately.
One of P-Square addicted fans with @Tygaresss1 was the person the observed that Soundcity TV is not playing music video of P-Square.
Been a while soundcity played any of psquare’s videos, hmm 🌚
— FISH MOONEY (@Tygaresss1) July 9, 2015
Music star Peter Okoye, took to social media to slam the urban music channel Soundcity TV with series of tweets. However he did not reveal the reason behind the situation and further he urged his fans to pay attention to other music channels.
Don’t waste ur time dear… They will not play them … Pls keep watching Trace TV, Mtvbase HipTv n Afropop. Thanks https://t.co/6sZu8lJTsg
— Peter Okoye (@PeterPsquare) September 10, 2015
Ignore that channel pls and keep watching us on great channels like Mtvbase,Tracetv,HipTv and Afropop thanks https://t.co/xqwsskHU10
— Peter Okoye (@PeterPsquare) September 10, 2015
Dear fans, we see your complains about the absence of our videos on @SOUNDCITYtv, just to clear the air they refuse to play us.
— Peter Okoye (@PeterPsquare) September 10, 2015
Pls keep watching us on other reliable channel like Mtvbase, HipTv, Tracetv, Afropop and other terrestrial channels. Thanks for the love.
— Peter Okoye (@PeterPsquare) September 10, 2015
Soundcity responded with this post below ” What Has Soundcity Ever Done for P-Square?” on their website:
For 10 Years, @SoundcityTV has been a huge er of #PSquare and the #PSquare brand, right from their 1st music video to the last video released in 2014. Most of their videos got massive airplay on @SoundcityTV than any other music channel.
@SoundcityTV viewers sometimes complain about the dominance of #PSquare videos on the channel & charts. We were a huge er and gave everything to their works.
We have assisted the #PSquare brand, toured with them over Africa at our expense. Gave them ad-spots for their events / projects. Gave them prime time slots for their videos and included them in our array of Programmes / programming.
We invited #PSquare to one of our annual events last December 2014 and they insisted we pay a certain amount of money. We reasonably asked, what is the least we can offer?; this was us foregoing the fact that we had invested a lot in #PSquare’s career as music talents / artistes & entertainers.
The was, “WHAT HAS SOUNDCITY EVER DONE FOR PSQUARE? TELL ME ONE THING SOUNDCITY HAS EVER DONE FOR PSQUARE” (Jude Okoye, Manager).
While we understand that this is business, there is also room for special consideration. Saying our TV brand has never done anything for #PSquare was quite damning. Clearly, there was no need to argue with their decision and reasoning. We decided to stop ‘doing anything’ with/for #PSquare, since our 10years of ing the group meant nothing to them. We assumed our relationship was a mutually beneficial one, but clearly one-sided.
Ultimately, #PSquare music videos stopped airing on @SoundcityTV since January 01, 2015. Soundcity reserves the right to air music videos on our cable / satellite or terrestrial platforms.
Overall, we wish the duo the best in their endeavours. @SoundcityTV will keep airing works of the best and Nigerian artistes, and also, the best #African artistes to the world, especially nurturing their talents from inception till they become huge megastars and international superstars.
Thank you.
