Boomplay, the largest music streaming and downloading service in Africa, will host its first Music Forum on Tuesday 21st May 2019.
The industry gathering targeting artistes, music producers, promoters and distributors, among other key stakeholders in music business will focus on the topic "Focus on Digital Music Distribution’ and The Future is Streaming.
Ahead of the forum, General Manager Boomplay Kenya, Martha Huro said, “The conversations around the Kenyan music industry are constantly ongoing. This is our first of many forums as Boomplay Kenya and we hope the session provides more insight into how Kenya’s industry can be on par with its counterparts by providing solutions and offering industry know-how to maneuver this ever-changing entertainment landscape. We will have a highly interactive session with key players in the industry.”
On her part Head of Content Acquisition at Boomplay Kenya, Elizabeth Karuru notes “One reason Kenyan music isn’t getting around the continent as it should is distribution. Here, at Boomplay we want to solve that problem by formulating new relationships with artists and assuring the industry that we will use our networks and branches across Africa to promote Kenyan music across our platforms.”
The forum will have six panel discussions that will tackle a number of topics from Intellectual Property, Publishing and Legal Protection, Production, Digital Distribution, Music Labels to PR and Branding.
The Panels
▪ Intellectual Property, Publishing and Legal Protection: a talk by Davis Katee (an associate at James. T Makori Advocates) tackling IP, Copyright Law and the challenges facing Kenyan artists with regards to IP.
▪ Production: What makes a good producer? : A talk by Eric Musyoka (Decimal Records), on the Business, Creative and Technical Aspects of Music.
▪ Digital Distribution: a talk discussion by Martha Huro (General Manager Boomplay Kenya), about Boomplay, a review of the past years and plans for the year.
▪ PR and Branding: a talk about how to package and brand yourself as an artist by Anyiko Owoko (Founder Anyiko Public Relations)
▪ Labels: a talk about some of the factors labels consider when looking to invest in an artist steered by John Andrews (Universal Media Group).
▪ My experience as a Kenyan artist: an industry discussion on what it takes to grow and nurture your career as an artist in Kenya with panelists - Kenyan songstress Vivian, producer Cedo, legendary artist Nameless and Gospel musician Janet Otieno.
About Boomplay
Boomplay Artistes Forum is the start to a series of industry events by Boomplay set to be held across Kenya and beyond the region. All the forums will have a series of panel discussions integral to the music industry.
Boomplay is currently the biggest and fastest growing music app in Africa with a catalogue of 5 million songs and videos which is still growing day by day.
Users can stream songs and videos online free of charge, subscribe to one of the daily, weekly or monthly plans to save songs and videos to play whilst offline or purchase content to download. The Boomplay app, which won the “Best African App” at the 2017 “AppsAfrica Awards”, has over 46 million users as of April 2019.
The service is currently available on Android, iOS and Web. The music and video streaming & download service is developed and owned by Transsnet Music Limited. Boomplay’s vision is to build the largest and most reliable digital music ecosystem for artistes and content creators in Africa. In the last year, Boomplay has signed deals with Universal Music Group and Warner Music giving its users access to an extensive catalogue of music globally.
