These are the top 10 highest-paid gigs in the Nigerian music industry since global domination.
Over the years, Nigerian artistes have been charging and being paid a huge amount for performances in various spheres, and here Mp3bullet listed some of the top 10 highest paid gigs in the Nigerian music industry.
Top 10 highest-paid gigs in the Nigerian music industry
Wizkid – Loud festivals
Wizkid becomes the first African artiste to charge $1 million for a show to headline date at the World’s Largest Hip-Hop Festival, Rolling Loud. Future confirmed he was also paid $1 million. He is headlining over Migos.
Davido – Fifa world cup song
Davido was paid a whopping amount of money for his feature in the world cup official theme song, grossing over 600,000$.
Davido also got a performing concert fee of half a million dollars to perform in Dubai early this year.
Burna Boy – Concerts
Burna Boy has grossed over a million dollars over his sold-out shows as of recent, last year he also sold out the O2 arena in London which tops 20,000 capacities, he is one of the most paid Nigerian artistes of all time.
He’s also headlining a show at the Madison Garden Square in the USA which also 20,789 capacity, becoming the first African artistes to do so.
Flavour on Amazon Prime Video
Chinedu Okoli better known by his stage name Flavour N’abania or simply Flavour, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Flavour was paid the sum of 3 million dollars by amazon prime video on his biopic, he received a whooping N1.6Billion as an advance payment for his biopic on Amazon Prime Video, making him the first African to achieve such a feat with amazon.
Mr Eazi
Yes. The one and only Mr Eazi are here on the list of the highest paid, His growth has been crazy and massive since he went viral in 2016.
He revealed on Twitter he charges between 6million to 10million naira for local shows. He’s made a lot of money this year alone and he charges between $100,000 – $120,000 for shows outside of Nigeria.
Olamide; N7-12 Million
He has been consistent since he blew and his brand keeps growing bigger. Olamide often gets called for shows.
Olamide’s Asking price right now starts from 7million and is as high as 10 million nairas for local shows.
He often gets called to many big events by the Lagos state government and other western states.
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Olamide charges between 70 – 100,000 dollars for international shows.
Kizz Daniel; N6 – N10 million
You may not know this but Kizz Daniel is one of the most booked musicians in Nigeria, that has got him featured on this list, he had quite a good 2019.
The singer increased his fee ever since he left G-World Widem he charges between 5-6 million for local shows and he charges as high as $80,000 for shows outside of Nigeria.
Tiwa Savage; N6 – 10 million
Tiwa Savage is the Queen of Nigeria music and is known for being that. Currently, other female artists like Yemi Alade and Chidinma Ekile are giving her a run for her money, but, she’s still the one rocking the crown.
She’s the highest-paid female artiste in Nigeria per show as she’s usually overbooked within periods and months.
According to TINA Magazine, Tiwa Savage would change nothing less than N6 million naira for local shows and 80- 100,000 dollars for international shows.
Rema N7-10 Million
With a profile like his, you should have a hunch as to what the singer may charge for a single show in Nigeria and Abroad.
So for clarity purposes, we will fill you in on how much Tekno charges for a show both in Naira and Dollars.
Rema’s Asking price right now starts from 7 million and as high as 10 million naira for local shows, and about ($80,000 – $120,000) per show international show
Naira Marley; N6 – N10 million
We have the one and only Naira Marley here on the list of the highest paid, kind of fast for a guy who blew just a year ago right? His growth has been crazy and massive.
He was paid 20million per show in December by access and star beer, even though that is not his fixed and official price he still charges as much as 6million to 10million naira for local shows.
He made a lot of money last year alone. And he charges between $60,000 – $100,000 for shows outside of Nigeria.