There are over 50 active Nigerian music blogs and each and every one has its special features and what people like about them. The Top Nigerian Music blogs list; this considers Alexa rankings, social presence, quality of songs, user engagement, and personal observations.
Since the advent of music blogs Nigerian artistes have been placing their songs out easily to their audience/fans; some might argue, it eclipsed the traditional way of making money in the music business. Starting with the days of great musicians like African China, 9ice, P-Square, Jaywon, Terry G and the likes.
Top Nigerian Music Blogs:
1.1 24Naija.com
Well, it won’t be a fair list if we don’t include the great 24Naija.com!
This is considered a go-to online platform that delivers Nigerian news, music, tech, fashion, and lifestyle content daily to Nigerians.
NotJustOk is a Nigerian music download website with over 1.2 million viewers per month (according to Wikipedia).
NotJustOk.com is considered also the premier online platform that delivers new Nigerian hip-hop/contemporary music, videos, and music content daily to Nigerians by exposing remarkable artists to Nigerian/African music lovers around the world.
NotJustOk ranks higher in terms of both popularity and site traffic which makes it the number one blog artists look to post their songs on.
Notjustok also has incorporated “Playlist Creation”. Such a playlist can be created on their new platform mynotjustok and shared to fans to listen. It’s completely free to upload your songs on their new platform at mynotjustok.com.
Having gained the award of – City People Music Award for Music Website of the Year.
Tooxclusive is a music and review website in Nigeria, it’s the second-rated music website in Nigeria after NotJustOk
TooXclusive.com pride themselves as the number one source for pan-African music entertainment, reviews, trending news, and celebrity updates. Tooxclusive video channel is another avenue where they discuss trends about the music industry.
They have expanded their reach to help provide the Ghanaians and Eastern Africans a means to promote their songs also on the tooxclusive music blog.
Tooxclusive website design is both user-friendly and mobile-friendly and it’s quite faster than notjustok which gives it a reason for users to visit. They are actually one of my go-to download music website, which is yours? Let me know in the comment section.
Having gained the award of – City People Music Award for Music Website of the Year.
Naijaloaded which was launched in 2009 has emerged as one of the top music blog sites in Nigeria with a massive number of traffic to its website monthly.
As the above blog sites, Naijaloaded also offers music video placement on their site. They also cover a wide range of entertainment gist and news content on a daily basis to Nigerians home and abroad.
Having also gained the award of – City People Music Award for Music Website of the Year.
Naijaloaded.com.ng is also rated as one of the best music website in Nigeria.
4. 360nobs.com
Just like all other top Nigerian music websites, 360nobs have a large number of monthly visitors, but going through their content they are focused not just on music alone but entertainment, lifestyle, latest news, literature, fashion tips and many more.
I would say they are not completely music oriented but its a platform you can place your song due to the number of diversified visitors visiting their blog every month.
360nobs.com has also gained the award of – City People Music Award for Music Website of the Year.
5. Pulse.ng
Pulse.ng is not exactly a music website, that is, their main focus isn’t on music placement, its more of breaking news, movies, celebrities, lifestyle and celebrity events and exclusive videos.
Because of the name it has made for itself (site popularity), pulse.ng attracts a large amount of audience monthly which helps your music as an artist reach a large amount of people visiting the website.
6. Jaguda.com
Jaguda is another top music blog in Nigeria, it has almost the same users experience just like tooxclusive.
Although comparing it with the above-listed music blog, its popularity is quite low but it attracts high monthly visitors.
Jaguda is a music site that also host reviews, albums, videos, entertainment news, events and lots more. You can promote your music video on Jaguda.com
9jaflaver has earned its ground in the music blogging space and was nominated for the award of – City People Music Award for Music Website of the Year 2018.
9jaflaver has gathered a large amount of impression due to its various blog contents ranging from news, freebeats, gist, comedy videos and lots more.
It is one of the best music blogs in Nigeria.
Just like every other Nigerian music blog site, Naijavibes also competes in the music blogging space.
The beauty of Naijavibes is they focus more on blogging artist songs than information or entertainment news, which is good for artists interested in less distraction for their music.
It’s considered one of the best music websites in Nigeria.
9. mp3bullet.ng
Just like the name implies, mp3bullet “bullets” their website with only songs of artists and no other forms of distraction.
This makes it a distraction-free music blogging site in Nigeria and an excellent music site for artist who want their songs to get out to their fans without distraction.
10. Mp3naija.com.ng
Mp3naija has a nice smooth design just like mp3bullet and is focused on only the latest Nigerian songs from artists.
Which also makes a distraction-free music blog site in Nigeria. Mp3naija.com.ng also has an artist section where it features profiles for the artist.
If you want to get featured in a Nigerian music blog playlists then Mp3niaja is a go-to music site for that, because they create a playlist of songs on a monthly basis.