Diamond Platnumz named Highest Royalty Earner by Copyright Society of Kenya

Tanzania Superstar Diamond Platnumz has been named the Highest Royalty Earner by Music Copyright Society of Kenya popularly known as MSCK.

Here is part of the Press Statement from MCSK.

The MCSK has declared the delayed June 2015 SCIENTIFIC PPP distribution of kshs 30.3 million . The declaration relates to the revenue collected between April to June 2015 and has been apportioned using log sheets obtained from the new monitoring system ” VERICAST ” as adopted by MCSK .

Secular music has regained the top position which had previously been dominated by Gospel music with SAUTI SOL emerging as the highest earners and most popular group during the period April to June 2015 . Closely following SAUTI Sol was BAHATI who emerged as number two and reaffirmed the presence of Gospel music with WILLY PAUL at number 4 . At number three was vernacular singer LADY WANJA who is a sister to the LATE QUEEN JANE with another vernacular singer MUM CHEROP rounding up the top five highest earners and most popular artistes based on air play logs in Kenya for the period APRIL to JUNE 2015 .

The full list of the top ten LOCAL ARTISTS is as follows;

1) Sauti Sol
2) Bahati
3) Lady Wanja
4) Willy Paul
5) Mum CHEROP
6) H-Art The Band
7) Gloria Muliro
8) Rabbit ” King Kaka ”
9) John De Mathew
10) Hellena Ken

In the INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY, DIAMOND dislodged ANGELA CHIBALONZA as the highest earner and most popular Non – Kenyan artist .

COMBINED LOCAL AND FOREIGN TOP TEN LIST

1) DIAMOND (Tanzanian)
2) SAUTI SOL ( Kenyan )
3) CHRISTINA SUSHO (Tanzanian)
4) ALI KIBA (Tanzanian)
5) BAHATI ( Kenyan )
6) LADY WANJA ( Kenyan )
7) JOSE CHAMELEON (Ugandan)
8) ROSE MUHANDO (Tanzanian)
9) WILLY PAUL ( Kenyan )
10) KOFFI OLOMIDE (D.R.C).