Musicians Should Not Be Defined by Streams, Charts – Blaqbonez

Nigerian rapper, Emeka Akumefule, popularly known as Blaqbonez, has shared his opinion on streams and charts.

According to him, musicians should not be defined solely based on streams and charts.

He said the reason is because numbers could easily be manipulated.

Blaqbonez, who has repeatedly claimed that bots were being used to manipulate streaming numbers and chart positions in Nigeria, stated this why replying to a fan who accused him for being a hypocrite for celebrating his diss song for Odumodublvck, ‘ACL’ hitting number one on Apple Music Nigeria.

The rapper explained that he had never downgraded the importance of charts, emphasising that he only advocated for artists not to be assessed solely based on charts because they can easily be manipulated.

He urged music fans to rate songs based on their qualities and not numbers of streams.

“I never talked down on the charts, it’d always be exciting but no artist should be defined by it. Most of the artists I’m currently listening to in Naija are not up on our charts.

“You guys are quick to label someone a failure depending on numbers that we know can easily be manipulated. Use your ears sometimes, if something is good its good, that’s all i’m saying,” he wrote on his X handle.