The Art of It

This week Charlie and Bayo discuss Sony Music Entertainments aggressive spending on acquisitions over the past 12 months and their CEO's plan for the future. Universal Music Group's parent company Vivendi, looking to sell a further 10% stake in the company as well as the impending IPO is also debated in addition to the incredible amount raised in a seed round by OneOf, which is the NFT music platform backed by Quincy Jones.

Charlie and Bayo discuss Believe Music making the steps to float on the public market, potential motivations behind it as well as the wider independent music market. Follow Creditz on Instagram & LinkedIn - @CreditzMusic Subscribe & sign up to our newsletter at www.creditzmusic.com

This week we speak on key NFT news in relation to the music business including Jay-Z, Andreessen Horowitz, Troy Carter plus others joining the $19m funding round for NFT marketplace Bitski, Warner Music investing in tech company Genies to create avatars and NFT's for WMG artists. We also touch on investment funding rounds and more thoughts on Square's Tidal acquisition. Track of the week. Bayo: Wizkid ft Damian Marley - Blessed / Charlie: Little Simz ft Cleo Sol - Woman. Follow Creditz on Instagram & LinkedIn - @CreditzMusic Subscribe & sign up to our newsletter at www.creditzmusic.com

Charlie and Bayo introduce The Art Of It podcast, where they discuss key topics in the intersection of music, business and tech.

In Episode 5 of CM Pod, Josh and Bayo sit down with creative director/video producer - Dijian Eccles and discuss his rise in the industry, his beginnings as a music producer, his transition to music videographer and an entrepreneur. Dijian is the founder of Production Company: Diamond Clear and has worked with the likes of Dizzie Rascal, Smoke Boys and more. 

In Episode 4 of CM Pod, Josh and Bayo speak with Still Shadey - an all round creative who has been actively rapping in the music industry for about 4 years but has been creating music since he was a youth. As a creative entrepreneur, Shadey founded his own indie (independent) record label: KB Records and has gone on to work with the likes of Lethal Bizzle, Guvna B and more. We discuss his early music influences, his experiences with record labels and how Kingdom values can prevail in the music industry today!

In this episode of CM Pod, Bayo, Emeka and Josh speak with Marketing genius and co-founder of 'The Ends Festival' - Charlie Ogbechie. The group discuss Charlie's background and his transition from running events at universities to working with record labels to establishing himself as a respected enabler in the game. Follow Charlie on Twitter: @MrCharlieOG, Instagram: @MrCharlie_OG. Follow Creditz on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn - @CreditzMusic. Follow the team - @Kaluugram, @bayoakins, @joshuadmf_ Sign up to join our waiting list and receive early access to the platforms

In this episode of CM Pod, the co-hosts had the pleasure of speaking with legendary award-winning music producer/director/songwriter/arranger - Nicky Brown With a career that spans over 4 decades, Nicky Brown is a successful musician and entrepreneur who has held multiple contracts with established record labels and has worked with some of the biggest names in music history including: Madonna, Sir Tom Jones, Westlife, Stormzy, Craig David and more.  We discussed a variety of different topics including: Nicky's background/experience as a creator as well as enabler, how to sell music in today's digital age, utilising social media as a music business tool, creating your own markets, how to approach the business end of music and more Follow Nicky on Twitter/Instagram - @NickyBrownMusic Follow Creditz on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn - @CreditzMusic Follow the team - @Kaluugram, @bayoakins & @joshuadmf_  Sign up to join our waiting list and receive early access to the platform - www.creditzmusic.com  

In this first episode of the CM Pod pilot, the Co-Founders of Creditz discuss what Creditz Music (as a platform) is, their backgrounds/interest in and around music as well as the reasons they believe they're the right team to build Creditz.  The co-hosts also give some insight into some of the problems that exist today in the music industry and how Creditz can potentially solve them.