The act of cloning the works of established musicians is gradually becoming a norm as Nigerian media personality; Adesope Olajibe has now raised an alarm about an impostor who makes money from copying Davido’s album online.
In post on Twitter on Thursday, Adesope exposed an anonymous person online who has done a replica of Davido’s album “A Better Time” dubbing his own cloned album “A Best Time on Apple music.
A close look at the cloned album on Apple Music reveals the cover art of the page showing the face of a child while the cover name also has Davido’s name spelt as DaVIDO.
Adesope took to his Twitter page to expose the impostor and also used the opportunity to reach out to Davido’s manager as he tried to draw his attention to the anomaly, on the online platform.
”What’s going on here? This is crazyyyyyyyyyy. This has to be pulled down immediately cc @davido @AsaAsika @bizzleosikoya,” the media personality captioned his post.
This came barely a week after it was reported that a Nigerian singer identified as Wisekid rakes in the sum of N30 Million naira monthly as unsuspecting fans of Wizkid have been streaming his album “Lasgidi Made” with a replica tracklist off Wizkid’s album thereby hoodwinking unsuspecting music lovers.
Reports say the Wizkid impostor has been playing a fast one on many fans on Apple music by uploading a replica of Wizkid’s ‘Made in Lagos’ album, leading to a diversion of some traffic to himself.
According to a report by Africa Facts, Wisekid has been raking in N30 Million naira monthly off the album which has gone on to amass a total of 9.3 million streams since October 2020 that he uploaded the replicated ‘Lasgidi Made’.
He also cloned and uploaded Wizkid’s ‘Made in Lagos’ album on shazam and tidal, leading to the young man making a fortune from it but despite that Wizkid’s Made In Lagos album has surpassed 400 million streams across only five platforms in five months.
