If you want to download Nigerian music, NotJustOK (www.NotJustOK.com) is the right place for you. It is Nigeria’s most visited music website.
It is common for you to hear NotJustOK.com or myNotJustOK.com, when listening to songs by Nigerian artistes.
Well, if you are still unaware of why you hear that phrase, here is the answer. It is because almost all Nigerian artistes’ songs are being downloaded from NotJustOK website. It is an extremely powerful platform for marketing artistes’ albums.
Brief history
NotJustOK.com was founded in 2006. It is owned by a Nigerian Ademola Ogundele. NotJustOK is a website where you can listen to and download Nigerian music.
It came into public limelight by the trending of a certain video. So this was when 9ice performed with the Soweto gospel choir in London in honour of Nelson Mandela on his birthday.
This particular video brought so much traffic to the site, raising NotJustOK from obscurity. This was when Demola decided to upgrade NotJustOK from a personal music blog into what we know it today, a music site.
Facts you need to know about NotJustOK.com
- Popular artistes use NotJustOK to sell their albums
- Artistes can upload their songs via a platform called myNotJustOK
- You can listen to popular Nigerian songs and even Ghanaian music
- It is a very popular website with 1.2 million page views per month from 183 countries
- It ranks 333 Alexa Nigeria as at 11 March 2019
- It has acquired numerous music awards ranging from Music Website of the Year Award to Best Music Blog
- It operates 24 hours – all round the clock
On this site, you can download all genre of Nigerian music, Gospel, hip-hop, etc. As long as it is done by a fairly popular Nigerian musician, chances are that you will be able to download it for free from NotJustOK.
Music by foreign artistes can also be downloaded on the website. Some foreign artistes (mostly Africans) have been discovered and signed just because a promoter saw their music on the platform. It is, however, a platform meant for Nigerians to download loads of local songs.
NotJustOK conducts interviews with artistes, both upcoming and some of the most popular in the industry. In the hype section, you will find some of these interviews, with producers, artistes, record label bosses and other stakeholders in the music industry.
Digital albums can also be sold on the platform, just the way it is sold on iTunes. This hub also offers promotional services for artistes and record labels. Their promotional services though are quite expensive, it’s not for everyone, if you can afford it though, you’ll enjoy it.
NotJustOK has something for established artistes and upcoming musicians. They can upload their music contents for people to download through myNotJustOK.
Upcoming artistes can upload their music to this hub free of charge. After the upload, all you need do is share the link on social media and to your friends, and voila, you will have people downloading your songs.
To do this though, you have to create a profile on the platform and then upload your music.
Wrapping it all up, NotJustOK is a one-stop-shop hub for all things about Nigerian music. Get on the site, stream and download as much as you like.