Award-winning Afrobeat singer, David Adeleke better known as Davido has revealed the amount of money he charges for a feature.
In a recent interview, the music star stated that instead of featuring international artists for free, he is now charging them.
Davido disclosed that he now charges $100k (N46M) plus a video.
“Nigga I am charging now, yea I am charging now. I am sending my lawyers. If I know you $100k”.
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“I probably spent $ 2 million on my last album” Davido
Weeks back, Davido revealed the exorbitant amount he spent on his last album.
The award-winning singer revealed in an interview that he spent nearly $ 2 million on his former album, ‘A Better Time’.
Davido added that he spent 300,000 on his new album and has made triple in profit.
Despite the exorbitant amount he has spent, he is grateful that African music is improving.
“My last album, I probably spent $ 2 million. I even spent 300,000 on this album and I made more in 3 days. It just shows me the level African music is going to. Things change”.
This wasn’t surprising as Davido revealed he paid a hefty amount to shoot a music video for one of the songs in his new album with TG Omori.
Davido reveals he paid TG Omori N100m for a music video
The famous singer revealed he paid music video director, TG Omori a whooping N100 million to shoot the video of a record off his fourth studio album ‘Timeless’.
The ‘Omo Baba Olowo’ crooner disclosed this in an interview with Beats FM, Lagos.
According to him, the video is the most expensive in the history of the Nigerian music industry.
Davido said, “I’m excited about the record. We shot the video with TG. And I’m proud to say that’s the first N100m video in Nigeria.
“The video was like six days shoot. And I came for three. He shot the other three days. The video was like a storyline. Shoutout to him, he’s amazing,” he added.
The singer released his long-awaited and highly anticipated album, ‘Timeless’ on March 31, 2023.
