Thursday, December 12, 2013

African Christmas Medley Gets Over 10,000 Unpredicted Online Downloads

In less than two weeks of releasing the African Christmas Medley album on www.shugaentertainment.com it has recorded over 10000 downloads from music lovers all over the world.

The album which is a brain-child of Akin Tofowomo, the man known in the social circles as Akin Shuga, has topped charts and broken boundaries in the first week of release, thereby causing the download site to experience such heavy traffic and prompted the need for website operators to keep tabs, reconfigure and increase the bandwidth to accommodate more traffic.


African Christmas Medley, produced by Wole Oni and Akin as the executive producer, comprises of 8 tracks, among the tracks are: Angels from the Realm of Glory, Joy to the World, Onye Nzoputa, Oba ni Jesu.

Speaking on the success of the album online, Akin Shuga, popularly refer to as ‘king of gigs’ said “To say that we are excited about this unprecedented downloads will be an understatement. In just three weeks of opening up the album to the public, we have received over 10000 paid downloads. This is a feat that excites us and we cannot appreciate all our fans enough. Thank you for encouraging us and most importantly, thank you for buying and downloading this Christmas album. We wish you merry Christmas and happy new year”

Shuga Band is the number one band in Nigeria. Their presence has be equated to class and entertainment value, which has made the band the first band of choice.

The band has played for presidents (past and present), governors, played in Paris, Sri Lanca, Dubai, Gambia, Bella Adenuga’s wedding, Bellanaija’s CEO wedding and a host of other high profile events.


Shuga has a foundation where he caters for polio victims having been hit by polio at age five.

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