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 “MY ZYLOFON DREAM & ZYLOFON CASH” were launched and opened up to the general public the past week at a simple press conference at the Zylofon media office in East Legon. An initiative that aims at monetizing creativity and putting money in the pockets of the people behind the art,this is definitely good news to all creative people who are yet to earn money from what they love to do or those who are already making money but as Oliver Twist are looking for more. Zylofon dream and Zylofon cash will be accessed on a platform that is in built onto the Zylofon media website ( https://zylofonmedia.com ) and will be accessed by signing up, buying a scratch card worth GHC 300.00 which allows you access to post your content three times onto any of the portals on the platform. The categories on the portal include; music, comedy, Movie,Modelling and just others. The content when accepted will then be pushed onto the Zylofon cash portal and then you can start making your money fr

Bruno Mars reigned supreme, taking home seven out of seven of the awards he was nominated for. It was a ceremony dominated largely by male recipients, despite powerful performances by female artists including Kesha, SZA, Pink, Rihanna and Lady Gaga and expressions of solidarity for the Time's Up movement. Here Are The Grammy Winners In Full; Album of the Year DAMN. -  Kendrick Lamar 4:44  - Jay Z 24K Magic  - Bruno Mars -  WINNER Melodrama  - Lorde Awaken, My Love!  - Childish Gambino Record of the Year "Redbone" – Childish Gambino "Despacito" – Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee feat Justin Bieber "The Story of OJ" – Jay-Z "Humble". – Kendrick Lamar "24K Magic" – Bruno Mars -  WINNER Song of the Year “Despacito“ – Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee feat Justin Bieber “4:44” – Jay-Z “Issues” – Julia Michaels “1-800-273-8255” – Logic feat Alessia Cara and Khalid “That’s What I Like” – Bruno Mars -  WINNER Country

GeoPoll is pleased to release a report on the top TV channels, radio stations, and print outlets in Ghana for 2017. The top media outlets were determined using the daily data collected through  GeoPoll’s Media Measurement Service , which has been measuring media audience ratings through mobile phone surveys in Ghana since 2014. To learn more about GeoPoll’s media measurement service and methodology, or to gain access to additional data including  ratings  breakdowns by age, gender, and location,  please contact us . The report finds that Adom TV, Peace FM, Goodnews FM, Hello FM and Daily Graphic emerge as the top national and regional media outlets in Ghana for the year 2017. Adom TV, a national broadcaster, was the leading TV station averaging 662,000 viewers per month. The leading radio stations in the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Western regions were Peace FM with 111,000 listeners, Hello FM with 186,000 listeners and Goodnews Fm with 57,000 average daily listeners respectively.

The 3Music Awards Nomination list was released last night at a plush event at Electroland Ghana. The event which was hosted by Johnny Hughes and Chriskata saw performances from The Ark band,Patapaa and Nana Yaa. The list of nominees is below;

A couple of days ago,www.entertainmentgh.com reported that, high-flying record label, Zylofon Music was 89% through in the signing of high-flying act, Shatta Wale and the 11% left  was all about the contract. It seems that remaining 11% has been cleared! Unconfirmed report gathered by www.entertainmentgh.com has it that, with a ‘100% surety’, Shatta Wale is now signed to Zylofon Music, a label under the Creative Arts company, Zylofon Media. The ‘Freedom’ hitmaker and the label were said to have concluded contractual talks yesterday, after which the artist was given a tour around the Zylofon Media offices at East Legon. He is also said to have been introduced to executives, employers of the company and most significantly, to the other artists already on the label. Stonebwoy, Becca, Joyce Blessings, Obinini, Kumi Guitar are the other music artists signed to the label. Zylofon Music are expected to make the grand announcement of the signing very soon! SOURCE: ENTERTAINM

We live in a country where people get so angry about sexual acts between two consenting adults than when an individual is sexually abused. Day in, day out, news stories pop up about little girls, little boys, women and men being victims of sexual violence. Yet, very little awareness is raised in regards to this issue that has been with us for time immemorial. The society we live in is such that when issues of this sort comes up, it is hushed up quickly as it came. Victims are scared of speaking out and bringing their abusers to book. People in general do not see it as a big deal and a greater faction blames the victim rather than the culprit. Say Hello to The Safe Space Foundation.  The Safe Space Foundation is an initiative still in its developing stages geared towards creating a consciousness on sexual abuse in our country. The foundation believes that it is about time Ghanaians gave maximum attention to sexual abuse in the country. It has decided to take r

Ernest Koranteng has decided to bring an end to his illustrious career as a media practitioner par excellence of 15 years. Until his retirement,he was working with Metro TV as head of sports and host of the "sports file show" having worked with Joy FM,Peace FM and Top radio just to mention but a few.

Entertainment company, Zylofon Media has launched its much publicised arts fund with the aim of giving financial support to acts in the creative arts industry who may want to embark on a project. At a press conference held at the head office of Zylofon Media in East Legon on Friday,January 19, Head of Communication, Samuel Baah popularly known as Sammy Flex said the firm intends to start the Zylofon Arts Fund initiative with a million dollar. “Zylofon Arts Fund is a fund that is going to support the creative arts industry from all disciplines. From dancers, movie and music producers, artistes to whoever plays a critical role in the creative arts industry stand a chance of accessing this fund” he noted. “To us at Zylofon Media, we see this as a lifetime investment which would be developed into a creative arts bank. But for now, it’s just a lifetime fund which will benefit the creative people,” he added. Personalities or groups in the arts industry who may want to acc

Award-winning reggae and dancehall artiste,Stonebwoy has placed 2nd on the highly recognized Reggaeville platform’s “Reggae album of the year” polls with his Epistles Of Mama(E.O.M) album. He beat off competition from highly rated Damian Marley & more as he came 2nd with Chronixx taking top spot. Congratulations Stonebwoy.

There has been so much shaking up in EIB lately due to the exodus of some key faces. The latest news regarding EIB is that Berla Mundi will be hosting the #StarrDrive on Starr FM 103.1 every afternoon. She broke the news on her Instagram page some minutes ago and the evidence is above.

Ghana’s representative at the 2014 Big Brother Africa (Hotshots) reality show,poet and musician,Kacey Moore released in late December last year a tune he titles radioactivity. The song seeks to add more voice to the "Support Your Own" initiative Ghanaian musicians and stakeholders have embarked on lately to challenge media houses to air more of local and less of foreign contents on the airwaves. The song is quite fascinating and a must-listen-to song with witty lyrics in Ga,twi, English and pidgin English. Below is an excerpt of the official video;

Teephlow was on Zylofon 102.1 FM a few minutes ago primarily to promote his latest project,Phlowducation EP. However,the host of the Showbiz Agenda and his panelists took the opportunity to ask if he would reply Strongman who had released a new song titled "charcoal" in which some lyrics suggested he was throwing shots at Teephlow. As a reply,he said he had listened to Strongman's charcoal song and he thinks it's a good song and didn't think it was directed at him and therefore hadn't thought of replying him.

Radio personality and Business Manager Of Sarkodie, Sammy Forson has left the EIB group for the Multimedia Group. He is joining Joy FM from Live FM with over 10 years under his belt in the Ghanaian entertainment space and the media in general. For over 10 years, Sammy Forson has worked in the Ghanaian entertainment industry as a Radio and TV presenter, Artiste Manager, Event Manager ,social media influencer and recently a fitness coach of some sort. Some of the stations he has worked with previously include Citi FM, YFM,Garden City Radio among others. This makes him one of high profile media practitioners to leave EIB in like 3 months with AJ Akuoko Sarpong leaving for Citi FM and Naa Ashorkor leaving for JOY FM. The rumour mill also has it that Anita Erskine has left Starr FM for a yet-to-be named station and Abena Owusu Nyamekye of GHoneTV fame lacing her boots to live in February having rendered in her resignation already.

News was rife some months ago about the cancellation of the diversity visa lottery when the president of the United States, Donald John Trump gave the strongest hint about his intentions to do such a thing. Judging from his tweet some minutes ago,this may be a final confirmation that he truly intends to scrap what has given a lot of Africans and other non-Americans the opportunity to enter the US. Background President Trump called on Congress to end a green card lottery that may have led to the driver in a New York City attack getting into the country. Speaking at a Cabinet meeting less than 24 hours after a driver killed eight and injured at least a dozen in Manhattan, Trump repeated his criticism of the Diversity Lottery Visa program from tweets earlier in the morning. “I am today starting the process of terminating the diversity lottery program,” he said. “I’m going to ask Congress to immediately initiate work to get rid of this program. The program “sounds nice,” Trump

The Musicians Union of Ghana, MUSIGA has announced the top twenty songs for the year  at a press soiree held in Accra on 12th January, 2018. Speaking to the press, the president of MUSIGA, Bice Osei-Kuffuor popularly known as Obour explained that data in the music Industry was missing and so as part of efforts to collate useful data and keep memorable records of artists’ contribution to entertainment in the country, the union had decided to compile top twenty songs every year. The statistics according to the music body was tabulated from the number of airplay these songs had in the year 2017. The job they said was done by Kisema, a logging system company in Ghana. They emphasized the point t hat the data does not include the constant play of the songs off radio and in my words I refer to the underlisted songs as "radio hits". Female songstress Ebony topped the list with her song, Sponsor followed by music group Wutah with their hit single, Bronya. Below are the top

This year's edition of the Soundcity MVP which came off at the Eko Hotels And Suites in Lagos was hosted by Ebuka. The award show  also saw performances from Sarkodie,Tiwa Savage,Cassper,MI Abaga, Emtee,2baba,Kiss Daniel,just to mention but a few. Below though is the reason why the event took place in the first place; 1. BEST MALE MVP DAVIDO (NG) RUNTOWN (NG) DIAMOND PLATNUMZ (TZ)-WINNER SARKODIE (GH) NAVIO (UG) 2BABA (NG) WIZKID (NG) SHATTA WALE (GH) OLAMIDE (NG) 2. BEST FEMALE MVP TIWA SAVAGE (NG)-WINNER NINIOLA (NG) BABES WODUMO (SA) SIMI (NG) BECCA (GH) SEYI SHAY (NG) YEMI ALADE (NG) BUCIE (SA) VANESSA MDEE (TZ) 3. BEST HIP HOP M.I ABAGA (NG) SARKODIE (GHANA) CASSPER NYOVEST (SOUTH AFRICA) -WINNER OLAMIDE (NG) NASTY C (SOUTH AFRICA) FALZ (NG) KWESTA (SOUTH AFRICA) AKA (SA) 4. BEST POP KISS DANIEL (NG) TIWA SAVAGE (NG) SIMI (NG) DAVIDO (NG) MALEEK BERRY (NG) - WINNER NINIOLA (NG) WANDE COAL (NG)

Award-winning Ghanaian rapper,singer and producer,E.L strongly disagreed with XXL Magazine's ranking of Top ten hiphop acts in Africa for the year 2017. We can't can't really tell if it's because he wasn't part of the list or he had other reasons too. Below is a screenshot of the tweet by E.L and the list by @KobbyKyeiNews whose tweet E.L responded to respectively; XXL Africa Magazine Top 10 Favorite Hip Hop Artists in 2017 1. Aka (SA) 2. Sarkodie (GHN) 3. Cassper Nyovest (SA) 4. Phyno (NG) 5. Nasty C (SA) 6. Mi Abaga (NG) 7. Kwesta (SA) 8. Ice Prince (NG) 9. Emtee (SA) 10. M.anifest (GHN)