List Of Defunct Record Labels In Nigeria

Every nigerian musician now wants to own a record label and even go ahead to sign artistes. They believe it helps boost their status in the game as people see them as CEOs. These musicians are barely standing on one foot yet they shoulder the responsibility of promoting others. This is mostly the reason why some artiste and record labels lose out along the line.
Below are a list of some Nigerian record labels that have fade into oblivion.


1. Storm records 360

This record label had several talented musicians in their fold e.g sasha, naeto c, darey, GT the guitarman,
Jazzman olofin etc. The label made wave between 2005 and 2010. No news has been heard about them since then as most of the artiste they signed have moved on to other labels, other businesses or simply faded with them. The label is/was owned by Obi Asika.

2. Questionmark records

This label looked promising around 2007 with the best of the best acts from Mode 9, Cobhams, Asa, Silver Sadihh, Ruffman etc and with CEO Kelvin Luciano. Few of the acts formerly signed to the label are still doing well e.g asa who is signed internationally, cobhams who is one of the best producers in Nigeria and mode 9 who is still keeping it real with his underground hiphop.


3. Westside music

When fans of the defunct plantashun boiz wanted to see who else from the group could blow as huge as 2face, Westside music was there to push Faze forward with the Faze Alone album for them to judge. CEO Solomon Arueya also sign acts like Lara George, da Natives, D'jinee, Modele, Freestyle etc who really didn't go beyond a one hit wonder.

4. Globedisk

Do you remember the days of swuo and konto ghetto music from ajegunle? This label pushed ajegunle to the limelight with great acts like African Chyna, Marvellous Benjy, Omo Jesu and Blackface. As soon as the ghetto brand of music washed off, the label also did the same. This label held it down from 2001 to around 2007.

5. Littlefish records

This label was seen as a beacon of hope in the days when Kennis music was seen as the only record label that could blow up an artiste. They looked promising when they signed Ruggedman who was already in the bad books of Kennis music for dissing some of their artistes. We all thought we were going to have a badboy/deathrow records kind of beef with kennis music and little fish till we heard that littlefish's office got burnt and ruggedman pulling out of the record deal. The label quenched before it could even take off.


These days, we have EME, Mavin, DB records, Fivestar music, Choc city, Starboy, HKN, YBNL and many more. The acts making wave for the labels are usually the owners. We hope they don't end up like their predecessors.

Written by Adewole Segun