Forget the government, streaming platforms will make us money - Wutah Kobby

Ghanaian artiste, Wutah Kobby, asks colleagues to look to online platforms for more income

Forget the government, streaming platforms will make us money - Wutah Kobby
Wutah Kobby

Wutah Kobby has advised his colleagues to turn to streaming platforms now to make more money.

According to him, if the government will continue to place unethical bans on celebrities to limit their income, artistes have to find alternate ways to make more money to balance out the deficit created by such bans.

He called out to all his colleagues to make sure their songs are easily accessible to the public by being placed on the various available streaming sites.

While speaking to Amansan Krakye on Kastle Drive, Wutah Kobby posited that the surest way of making more money in the music landscape now is through online streaming and downloads since the sales of cassette and CDS have become an outdated mode of purchase.

“I think as at now it’s the only sure way of making revenue from the music that we made because especially now that outdoor shows are not allowed, since artistes are not billed on shows. It’s now like the streams are the main thing and besides, now selling of CD and cassette are things of the past.”

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Wutah Kobby stated that he does not remember the last time anyone used a CD in his presence, as most people now go online to stream and download songs they love to listen to on their phones and laptops since we now find ourselves in modern times when the computer has become a necessity.

“People are actually downloading songs on their phones, laptops and using caller back ringtone and their streaming songs. We’re in the computer age now so most of the things are done online and even in the past when we did songs we had to put it on a CD and give it to DJs to play it for us.

“But now you can send the song through your email or WhatsApp and the DJ can get it or even Google to download the song either for free or for a fee. So now every artiste should endeavour to at least put their songs on all the platforms and the platforms are enormous.

“So you’d be making a bit of money from each of the streaming platforms and when you put all of them together you’d realize you’re making some good money from it,” he concluded.