Nikki is followed by Kenyan veteran rapper Khaligraph Jones with only 1,500 downloads. The fact that Khaligraph did a major track with Nikki last year goes to show that Kenyans dont have a culture of downloading their own Music. Mdundo aims to help promote Kenyan Music and help musicians get real value for their work.As fans, the least we can do is fight piracy and download music from our favorite artistes in a legit way-Something that Tanzanians are clearly beating us at. Khaligraph Jones pointed this out on a recent interview and explained that although he was happy about being the most downloaded Kenyan artiste, he wasnt excited about the number of downloads he had.
Mdundo started off about a year and a half ago in collaboration with some of Kenya’s best artistes and since then the number of active users has rapidly grown.It is now one of the most legit sites to download music from your favourite African artistes and for absolutely free. It proudly boasts of signing atleast 500 active artists with a vision to further expand their market in East Africa.
Here is what the Operations Manager Thiru Mungai had to say,
“The Tanzanian market is looking very impressive and it’s quite exciting for us to see how fast we have grown there in 2013 so we are looking forward to what 2014 has to offer”,
And,
“I think this will push some of our artists to want to succeed therefore push out their music and increase competition amongst them, we are also looking to promote our Kenyan artists in Tanzania”. He added.
Additional Reporting-Mdundo
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