Zambian Music Blog

Zambian Music Blog
Type of business Private company
Type of site
 Music blog, website
Available in English
Headquarters Kitwe, Zambia
Area served Zambia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana , Namibia, Malawi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, South Africa
Owner Elite Hype Limited
Founder(s) Philip Mutika
Key people
  • Philip Mutika
  • Bennie Chibwe
  • Chama Mutafunya
  • Aaron Mwelwa
  • Martha Nakazwe
Industry Internet
Services Content Distribution
Revenue Advertising
Employees 4
Slogan(s) Zambia's #1 for All African Music, Video & News Article Website
Website www.zambianmusicblog.co
Alexa rank Increase 236,335 (June 2016)[1]
Advertising Yes
Commercial Yes
Registration Not Required
Users Increase 326,220 Monthly Unique Users
Launched 2011 (2011)
Current status Active

Zambian Music Blog is a Zambian based website for music, videos and all sorts of entertainment and also provides professional online based advertisements.[2] The website is devoted to the best talent and most exciting developments in the world of music and entertainment in Zambia and other African countries. The website contains menu sections such as Editorial which is sub divided into Reviews and Fashion, the music section has three sub sections Gospel Music, Lyrics and Album/Mixtape. A Video section and an Artists Profiles section.

In 2014 the website was named among the top 5 most used websites in Zambia [3] after been nominated by the Zambia Music Board community.

Over the time it has been ranked as high as 236,335 [4] in the world, while most of its traffic comes from Zambia, where it reached as high as 85 [1] position.

History

The website was launched on 10 May 2011 by Philip Mutika, who maintained it as a personal blog site. The website was brought down in 2012 due to high traffic when it shared a link to Mampi's song. The website was later reopened in 2013 on a new domain zambianmusicblog.co [without the final "m" on the end of the URL]. After reopening on a new domain the website returned its status after they posted JK's song tiled Paduze. JK shared the link [5] to his song from the website and 2 months later it got its original status back.

Many artists have appreciated Zambian Music Blog for taking Zambian Music beyond borders whilst other artists have criticized Zambian Music Blog for destroying the Zambian Music Industry. For example, in 2015 Petersen Zagaze e-mailed the website to remove all of his Music/Content from the website [6] one month to the release of his King Solomon Album and he publicly posted on Facebook that he is against bloggers.

Reception

Site Statistics

Zambianmusicblog's traffic has grown steadily since its re-launch in 2013, and Mutika reports an average of approximately 231 thousand views per month.

The Web Information Company, Alexa ranks it at 236,335 [1] as of June 2016.

Awards

  1. 2014 ZeeMusic Award for the "Best Zed Music Blog"

References

  1. 1 2 3 "zambianmusicblog.co Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
  2. ↑ "Zambia Music Blog Profile". Zambiamusicblog Blog site. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Top 5 websites". Nathan Perfecto Musamba. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Zambianmusicblog.Co REPORT". whois.easycounter.com. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "Paduze JK ft Yemi Alade". Zambia Music Blog. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  6. ↑ "Petersen Zagaze Decides To Remove His Music/Content from ZMB". Zambia Music Blog. Retrieved 30 April 2016.


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