During the quarantine, Reelgood, a U.S. movie and TV search engine collected data from 2 million-plus monthly active users to discover which streaming platform’s reality shows have consumers devoured the most and Netflix emerged top with its ‘Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness’. Netflix’s foray into reality show production have …
Read More »Ninety is a ‘Rare Gem’ on his debut project [Pulse EP Review]
Headed by former Sony West Africa boss, Michael Ugwu, the company now has Ninety on its books. While Ninety has been with the company for around one year, he recently released his debut EP, Rare Gem, a satisfaction of riveting melodies filled with an anthology of love stories, with each …
Read More »Pulse List: 7 celebrities you didn’t know are Muslims
Interestingly, some of these celebrities have always been known by their aliases with little attention paid to their real names. These guys have really cool Muslim names if we must say. However, some of them have at different times expressed publicly their ties to Islam. Nigerian rapper Reminisce was born …
Read More »Is MSG performance the crowning moment of Burna Boy’s career so far? [Pulse Editor’s Opinion]
Before said show, he has sold out Nigeria’s first arena show of this era at Hollywood Bowl, where he sold out 17,000 tickets. After that, he performed different arena shows in Switzerland, France, Netherlands, Ireland and more. The days when Burna Boy grinded hard at club shows and theaters, while …
Read More »Flavour’s Amazon Prime deal shows how Afrobeats success can inform Nollywood’s [Pulse Editor’s Opinion]
Apple’s year got off to a great start but the same cannot be said for Netflix as the streamer announced a major loss of 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 and an expected loss of a further two million by Q2. In 2020, Netflix announced an accelerated growth …
Read More »Terri’s ‘In Transit’ is not a spectacular project [Pulse Album Review]
This follows his debut project, ‘Afro Series,’ which was released two years ago. Terri, a Lagos-born Edo state indigene, signed with Wizkid’s Starboy Records in 2018. Before finally meeting Wizkid, he had a meeting with Mut4y, Starboy’s head of music and one-half of Legendury Beatz. Terri collaborated with Wizkid, Ceeza …
Read More »Did Terri exit Wizkid’s Starboy Records? [Pulse Exclusive]
At the time, different sources rumoured that he had exited the label. Further food for thought arrived in the form of his latest EP, In Transit, which is his first body of work since ‘Afro Series.‘ Like the singles before it, the EP was credited to Terri/OneRPM on streaming platforms. …
Read More »Pulse List: 7 most popular Nigerian celebrity weddings of the decade so far
However, when it comes to a celebrity’s wedding, the standard is always top-notch. From the star-studded guests’ list, distinctive Aseobi to the even the hashtags which can trend on social media for weeks, Nigerian celebrities sure do know how to make a wedding the talk of the town. On our …
Read More »How video-sharing platforms are supporting the ‘Afrobeats to the world’ movement [Pulse Editor’s Opinion]
Africa is now at the epicenter of the global economy. Her music, movies, and culture have captured the world’s attention, and technology has emerged as the leading evangelist. An estimated 60% of the world’s population is now online according to Statista. The internet controls a large portion of the global …
Read More »On his eponymous debut EP, Boy Spyce uncovers hidden feelings [Pulse Contributor’s Opinion]
Even though this writer praises Boy Spyce and the EP’s producers for the chord progression, songwriting, breath control, and overall music production, it is the emotions that emerge when listening to these songs that are most important. To this writer, music is about how it makes you feel rather than …
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