Multiple award-winning Ghanaian musician, Vera Hamenoo-Kpeda, otherwise known by the stage name MzVee, has opined that the conscious effort made by Nigerians to play 80 percent of their music has yielded positive results.

Her statement comes after several Nigerian artistes were announced as nominees for the 2024 Grammy Awards, whereas no Ghanaian musician was able to secure a nomination. 

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Property Fm’s Amansan Krakye, the ”Natural Girl” hitmaker emphasized that this intentional push to showcase a majority of Nigerian music has yielded significant results for the West African country’s music industry. 

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“Nigerians are all over the world, they’ve spread like wildfire and they push their own and the media in Nigeria have protected their artistes. They’re very serious about their 80-20 airplay and at first Ghanaian music was in Nigeria anyhow and they even used to come here to beg to perform.

 “But they’ve made a conscious effort to play their music 80 percent but we’re not protected here in Ghana and our system is infiltrated with so much foreign music,” she added

MzVee, to a greater extent asserted that, “It’s not just about music but everything we just love the foreign stuff so looking at our numbers and the way our system has been infiltrated with foreign things how can we get to the level where people are complaining about”.