Nigeria: Music 101 - Album, Mixtape or Playlist, What's the Difference?

12 August 2017

Wizkid's major label debut Sounds From the Other Side debuted on the US Billboard Top 2000 Album Charts at #107, a few places below King Sunny Ade's Synchro System album, which peaked at #91 over three decades ago. Oddly, there has been a lot of confusion about what to call the historic project. Wizzy himself has called Sounds every name under the sun, other than an actual album. But being that Sounds is first - a 12-track project, second - was released for sale, and third - contains only original music, the "Ojuelegba" singer has been looking a lot like Robinson Crusoe on his own misinformed island.

Wizkid has dressed down Sounds From the Other Side by calling it a mixtape and at other times, he has incorrectly referred to it as an EP. In a recent interview, when asked why he didn't just call it an album, the singer explained that his original plan was to give SFOS away for free, then a 'friend' who listened to it talked him out of his original plan but, apparently, not out of his original talking points.

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