Award-winning producer, JMJ has yet again earned another first accolade as he is the first-ever Ghanaian music producer to hit one million streams on Boomplay with his own projects.
The much-excited producer announced on his Instagram page after the music streaming platform had disclosed it. JMJ posted a picture that showed that his album, ‘ROG New Kings’ has amassed one million streams. He posted the picture with some blazing fire emojis which indicates his excitement about his achievement.
Some netizens who sighted JMJ’s post shared in his joyous moment. They also commented with the same fire emojis. Some also averred that this is good news and he needs to keep up with the good work. Others who were probably budding artists pleaded with him to include them on his record. Some reactions to his post:
JMJ’s ‘ROG’, a collective project of artists
Producer JMJ is the first African Producer to release a Riddim in 2019. Riddim is a Jamaican music production culture where a producer or DJ produces a beat or a song and different artists jump on different versions of the main song.
‘Riddim Of The GODS (ROG)’, is a collective music project JMJ sparked in 2019. Following successful single ‘Riddims’ in 2019, which unearthed budding artists as well as add value to mainstream musicians, ‘ROG’ has become a household project which all stakeholders in the music industry anticipate every year.
The maiden ‘ROG’ edition he championed in 2019, where he hosted over 32 Ghanaian musicians on a five-part Riddims album, initiated a partnership with Africa’s biggest music streaming platform, Boomplay.
For this year’s ‘ROG’, JMJ announced and released a HipHop edition dubbed ‘New Kings’, with the aim of throwing the spotlight on eleven artists of the new generation of diversely skilled rappers. The project was released in two parts: ‘ROG New Kings 1’ and ‘ROG New Kings 2’.
Tape 1 featured a versatile and budding star-studded group that included Bryan The Mensah, Kofi Jamar, Boiiisam, King Paluta, Keeny Ice, and Lokal. The tape has 110,000 streams currently.
Tape 2 had the likes of Amerado, Lyrical Joe, Phrimpong, Cedi Rap, and Lokal Shock showing off their lyrical skills over JMJ’s classic hip-hop beat. Released a week after the first tape, ‘ROG New Kings Tape 2’ currently has 57,700 streams.
JMJ will receive plaque from Boomplay
According to the music platform, Boomplay “1 million streams by; a Producer means having a good reach with his first audience base”.
It is worth noting that, JMJ achieving one million streams means he is going to receive a Boomplay Streaming Plaque.
That notwithstanding, Boomplay is Africa’s biggest music streaming platform with over 65 million users. Independent artists and labels, as well as the major record labels, distribute their songs and catalogs to Boomplay and have been generating revenues from streaming on the Boomplay platform. With superstar African artists such Stonebwoy, Sarkodie, Shatta Wale, Burna Boy, Wizkid, and Davido earning millions of streams on Boomplay, Boomplay awards plaques to all artists when they achieve milestone streams. Also,. Meanwhile,. Also,
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