{"id":719,"date":"2025-05-13T13:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=719"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:16:42","slug":"tech-has-become-an-equaliser-in-the-industry-chocolate-city-musics-ceo-on-ai-virality-and-the-future-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Tech has become an equaliser in the industry\u201d: Chocolate City Music\u2019s CEO on AI, virality, and the future of music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TC-Featured-Image-design-13-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TC-Featured-Image-design-13-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TC-Featured-Image-design-13-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TC-Featured-Image-design-13-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TC-Featured-Image-design-13.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For Abuchi Peter Ugwu, CEO of Chocolate City Music, one of the country\u2019s most influential music labels, the biggest shift in Nigerian music over the last decade isn\u2019t just the sound, it\u2019s the technology. From the era of hawking CDs in Alaba to tracking TikTok spikes and Spotify data, the business of music is now deeply shaped by tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTechnology changed everything,\u201d Ugwu told TechCabal in an interview. \u201cTen years ago, if you had a hit, you had to go to Alaba.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcabal.com\/2025\/05\/01\/chocolate-city-music-ceo-interview\/\">To read more ,click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Abuchi Peter Ugwu, CEO of Chocolate City Music, one of the country\u2019s most influential music labels, the biggest shift in Nigerian music over the last decade isn\u2019t just the sound, it\u2019s the technology. From the era of hawking CDs in Alaba to tracking TikTok spikes and Spotify data, the business of music is now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}