“Pay us our royalties” – Celestine Donkor’s manager to Boomplay

Kofi Donkor, the manager of gospel musician Celestine Donkor, has called out online streaming service Boomplay for not paying royalties of his artiste.

He also suggested in a post Facebook that the digital service provider will be closing its office in Ghana.

In his post, he wrote: “Boomplay pay us our Royalties before you close down the Ghana office on Friday!!”

Speaking to myjoyonline.com Kofi Donkor indicated that his artiste has not received any royalties from Boomplay for over a year now.

“They have not paid years for more than a year. And I hear they are even planning on shutting down their office in Ghana. We need to take our monies now,” he said.

Meanwhile, myjoyonline.com’s investigations indicate that Boomplay doesn’t have agreements with artistes directly. Rather, it has agreements with distribution platforms and distributors for the songs that are submitted on the platform.

This means royalty payments are made to distributors who in turn pay artistes based on their percentage share agreements.

Our findings further prove that there have been some challenges with some distributors and distribution platforms, a reason for the non payment of some royalties.

Ours sources establish that some licensing agreements with some platforms have ended and that there have been a confusion over agreeing to new licensing agreements which are still being discussed.

Celestine Donkor is not the only artiste who finds herself in this situation. Royalties of other artistes such as Kofi Sarpong, Okyeame Kwame, Sista Afia, Tinny, King Paluta, Sista Afia, Epixode who have signed on to Boomplay have not been paid.