Not many will notice that the popular music TV station, Soundcity stopped playing music videos from PSquare nine months ago, until some fans of Psquare complained on twitter.
Peter Okoye of Psquare saw the tweet and called Soundcity out saying he does not know why they don't play their music video, even when playing an artist who collaborated with them, The Psquare part is often censored off.
He therefore asked their fans to boycott Soundcity and instead follow other music stations like MTV Base and Trace TV.
See Peter's tweet and Soundcity statement below;
Meanwhile, Soundcity just shared a statement on their website titled "What Has Soundcity Ever Done For P-Square?" and in the statement, they address P-Square's comments against them.
Read below;
For 10 Years, @SoundcityTV has been a huge supporter 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 supporter 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 feedback 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 supporting 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 upcoming 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.
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ReplyDeletei have been following their beef since 2001
i recollect ,back in the days sometimes in 2002, there was this yoruba showbiz writer that did a writeup on psquare when psquare called the now headies award(then HipHop wards) a yoruba musicians award...the yoruba writer the tol psquare they aint sh*t and they will never be sh*t
but psquare were lucky to have made many hits since then till now..
.One thing for sure is ,if psquare were from Gabon or kenya,,soundcity will play ther stuff every 15 minutes..
i thinks someone is just being local here...if i own a music channel i will play all music, even my enemies'
Write better English abeg make person understand
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