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816 or so songs potentially bought by a large American label. Even songs he wrote for others aside from Wemba.

This is pretty unheard of in African music…. with all the nasty rights inheritance and royalty drama from deceased musicians families in the genre, this seems rather ingenious if he gets the right price.

If this goes through it will pave the way for artists on the legendary status

My thoughts…
- Huge guaranteed payday now for 50 years of music instead of collecting royalties bit by bit which has everyone not making much money off just streaming.

- The buyer can monetize the catalog globally through streaming, licensing, sampling and better royalty collection.

- Much easier for Koffi’s estate than inheriting rights to 800+ songs from multiple labels he was with in his career. Some don’t even exist anymore.

- Risk is he still getting more listeners even at his age with more streaming reach and old song going viral from time to time. Maybe the catalog becomes worth multiples more but this may take decades.

- I can foresee a bunch of ghostwriters coming out of the woodwork to contest ownership if they wrote songs claimed as his.

Koffi Olomide shouldn't sell his catalogs. That is a bad idea. He just needs to work hard on making sure that his songs can give his family money after he passes away in some record association company. After all, Koffi is a legend and has work hard to earn his status as one of the greatest African artists.

make all the sense in the world the music industry is getting oversaturated there for music will lose its value and not be worth as much theres not alot of money in streaming for ex snoop dogg had a billion streams on one song and he only got 45 thousand from spotify which is crazy so even if koffi old songs starts to stream like crazy it wont mean much and artist have to make money somehow so i get it sell while the value is high

Koffi doesn't have 816 songs. Songs in group albums should not count, I know Koffi with his greed would include group album songs (like he's put every single Quartier Latin member's songs as his in SACEM). Even in his solo albums, he's lying about the fact thst he wrote them all. My elder Eldorado, Do Akongo, Wazekwa, Bourman Idolo, Vigas, Djodjo Lina are the minds behind many of those songs (even though Koffi in his own right is a great songwriter). Koffi is someone that needs to ridden off our music because aside his talent, he represent corruption.

Koffi doesn't have 816 songs. Songs in group albums should not count, I know Koffi with his greed would include group album songs (like he's put every single Quartier Latin member's songs as his in SACEM). Even in his solo albums, he's lying about the fact thst he wrote them all. My elder Eldorado, Do Akongo, Wazekwa, Bourman Idolo, Vigas, Djodjo Lina are the minds behind many of those songs (even though Koffi in his own right is a great songwriter). Koffi is someone that needs to ridden off our music because aside his talent, he represent corruption.

Thats very mean. Koffi is wrong but thats the system. From Back in the days til now Fally/Ferre…
Even in america does it happen…

Fally, Ferre and the other 5 gen artists can’t even have this discussion with record labels since all of their songs were written by someone else, even the time they were in bands. At least here Koffi has a basis as he was a songwriter/sorta guitarist from day 1.

In any genre past and present I don’t think there are many singular artists that penned 800+ songs personally from start to finish. I remember people being shocked when it was discovered that some of Simaro’s and Franco’s biggest hits were in fact not written by them even though they claimed that when they were alive. Tabu Ley we heard many revelations also of his ghostwriters.