The song which started out with a video of a school boy singing a song in his classroom is now currently charting on the world stage. Achievements: - #6 on the Spotify Global Viral 50 Chart - #2 on the Spotify US Viral 50 Chart - Over 20M views on Instagram - Over 10M views on Facebook - Over 5M views on YouTube - Over 4M streams on Spotify so far Background: The video of Rushawn singing Jermaine Edwards song...
What started as a simple video of me performing alongside a cat's distress calls, has become a worldwide phenomenon with people from all around the world adding their instruments & voices to the song. Here is the original video: After the original video went viral, there was high demand for an official release, so here's the official audio: You can stream the song on your preferred streaming platform HERE I then compiled some of my favourite...
My song with Bilal Goregen has gone viral with more than 15 million combined views. The obscure Finnish folk song was originally performed by Turk Bilal Goregen and now features a worldwide remix by yours truly. Buy / Stream here: Spotify: When I first saw the video, I thought it was incredibly catchy and I thought it would be a fun song to remix. So I did a short, live looping remix and put it online. The response was great so I DM’d my...
Since the start of the Covid 19 lockdown, I've embarked on an incredible journey of music. I've taken some of my favourite songs of all time & I've turned them into parodies of what I've been experiencing at home during the lockdown. It's been an incredibly enjoyable (and sometimes cathartic) process, and I'm glad that others have enjoyed them too. You can view them all here on YouTube (apart from my Toto - Africa parody which unfortunately...
Having your music on radio can earn you a great passive income. Every time your song plays on radio, you are owed a publishing royalty. SAMRO collects those royalties from radio stations & pays them to the people who wrote the song. One spin of your song on a prominent station like Kfm or 947 can fetch anywhere from R60 to R200. I noticed that I had one spin on Metro FM which paid R450, probably one of the highest paying station in the...
You may have heard that SABC is finally starting to pay back the R250million in royalties owed to musicians, so I thought now is a good time to shed some light on how to actually get your royalties. If you're a musician, I'm confident that by the end of this article you will know a lot more about the different royalty collection agencies. You will learn what they do & what you need to do to get what's owed to you. First off, you need to be...
I refuse to let the SABC exploit & play any of my music until they start paying artists what’s owed to them. I recently became a member of South African Music Performance Rights Association (SAMPRA) who are in charge for paying artists needle time royalties, including session musicians i.e. the guitarist or drummer behind the scenes who played on a song. Those are royalties for music that plays on radio, restaurants, shops etc… Every...
Last week was probably one of my best weeks as an indie artist! I released two songs: 1. Mmu$i Maimane which racked up 800k views across platforms & made the news & 2. Sugarman ft. Mathew Gold which charted at #2 on the iTunes charts. Both songs were turned down by major labels, but I released them anyway by myself - without a label or a PR team. It was very tough work & a flippen' crazy week, but very rewarding at the...
We've been jamming this song at the live shows for quite some time now, so it feels good to finally put it out into the world! Thank you to everyone who's listened, commented, shared so far. We appreciate all the support! Watch it here: This is my first proper release under my independent label "Kiff Records", so the fact that it charted at #2 on the iTunes charts & was also the first local song listed on Spotify's New Music Friday was a...
K Day has always been on our bucketlist of gigs to play, so we were very excited when we finally got the invite this year. We pulled out all the stops, inviting the dancers from the "You Say You Love Me" music video (Manila von Teez, Maxine Wild & Jayde) to join us for the opening song. We also had feature vocalist Mathew Gold join us on stage & Jüte my wife even agreed to wear the bear costume from the "Celibate Healing" music video...
