Why We Stopped Playing Psquare’s Music Videos – Soundcity TV

Urban music channel Sound City has cleared the air on why they stopped airing videos by Nigeria’s pop twins, P-Square, since January this year. According to Premium Times, the channel published a statement on their website titled “What has Soundcity ever done for P-Square?”

Sound City responding to Peter Okoye’s tweet earlier today, telling their fans that SoundCity has stopped playing their songs on their channel, said;

“For 10 years, @SoundcityTV has been a huge supporter of #PSquare brand, right from their 1st music video to the last video released in 2014. Most of their videos got massive airplay on @SoundcityTV than any other music channel,” the TV station said in the statement published on its website.

We invited #PSquare to one of our annual events last December 2014 and they insisted we pay a certain amount of money.

We reasonably asked, what is the least we can offer? This was us foregoing the fact that we had invested a lot in #PSquare’s career as music talents/artistes and entertainers.

The feedback was ‘What has Soundcity ever done for P-Square? Tell me one thing Soundcity has ever done for PSquare’ (Jude Okoye, Manager).

While we understand that this is business, there is also room for special consideration. Saying our TV brand has never done anything for #Psquare was quite damning. Clearly, there was no need to argue with their decision.

We decided to stop doing anything with/for #PSquare, since our 10 years of supporting the group meant nothing to them. We assumed our relationship was a mutually beneficial one, but clearly one-sided.

Ultimately, #PSquare music videos stopped airing on @SoundcityTV since January 01, 2015. Soundcity reserves the right to air music videos on our cable/satellite or terrestrial platforms.”