‘Music money is not normal,’ Qing Madi claims

Nigerian singer and dancer Chimamanda Pearl Chukwuma, popularly known as Qing Madi, has made strong claims about the revenue made by artists in the music industry.

The singer, while speaking on the Tea With Tay podcast, claimed that Music money can be likened with drug money. She explained her claim, stating that a serious artist can make as much as N20 million from one show.

Madi compared the income of artists with that of 9-5 workers, noting that the income gap is undeniably huge.

“Music money is not normal, it is like drug money. I don’t think people know how… And I’m not the person who would buy stuff and put on the media because I do think that that would change the narrative of what I am to the media. And I don’t like people looking at me and seeing money. But I am rich. The average Nigerian works 9-5 and earns maybe N500,000 at the end of the month, while as an artist, you do one show and get N20 million. Music money is huge,” she said.