About SonikBlu
Music streaming that pays African artists weekly
Stream, tip and buy music from Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa. Every payment shows the 10% fee, and the artist is paid on Friday.
Sunday in Mamelodi
Tshwane Nightbus · Pretoria
Spray Tshwane Nightbus
You paidR 20
Platform fee (10%)R 2
Artist receivesR 18
Paid to Tshwane Nightbus on Friday
Our mission
We built SonikBlu so the people who make African music are heard first and paid every week, with a receipt for every naira, cedi and rand.
Five rules SonikBlu is built on
Read the chart rulesCounts fans, not plays
Each verified listener counts once a week per track, so looping a song doesn’t move the chart.
Shows every fee
Every tip, sale and fan-club pass ends with a receipt: the amount, our 10% and the artist’s share.
Credits early fans
Find an artist before they break and your First Ear credit stays on their page.
Plays on low data
Data Saver, offline downloads, and offline plays that still count when you reconnect.
Takes human-made music only
Artists confirm every upload is free of AI-generated music. AI releases leave the charts.
- How payouts workCurrencies, payout methods, splits for producers and writers, and the minimum payout.Read about payouts
Launch countries and city crews
- 3
- countries at launch: Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa
- 9
- city crews, from Lagos to Cape Town
- 10%
- platform fee, shown on every receipt
- Friday
- payout day, every week, through Paystack
The team behind SonikBlu
A small team of music lovers, creatives and engineers, building in the open while SonikBlu is in preview. Ngo, our talking drum, answers in two beats: “sonik”, then “blu”.