What befuddles is that the Encore album is a non-traditional one, consisting of Broadway show tunes with no promotional singles released prior. That the 74-year-old diva is able to move such big numbers (150,000 copies) first week is hardly a surprise.
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In the United States for instance, evergreen singer Barbra Streisand had her 35 th studio album, Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway debut at number one on the Billboard album charts in August, trouncing new efforts from contemporary and glossier acts, Britney Spears and Florida Georgia Line. Pop culture follows the same beat.īut some things last longer than others and even in the midst of a rapidly shrinking collective attention cycle, there remains people and events that manage to outlast. Going by this logic, everything about the world is subject to change and nothing is expected to last forever. With every passing minute, something no matter how minute or insignificant is happening, and every second is really just a cascade triggering a complex constant positive feedback mechanism. It follows therefore, that life as we know it is in a constant state of flux. Medical scholars and epidemiologists can think in terms of discovery of anaesthetics, arrival of antimicrobials, the sexual revolution and the rise of HIV. Thus historians can look at the world in terms of World War 1, the Holocaust, the Nigerian Civil War, and America’s misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan. In today, out tomorrow is the name of the game and only the fleet-footed can manage to hold on and remain relevant long after the initial fascination has left the building.Ī wise man once observed that the only thing constant in this world is change and indeed the history of mankind can be demarcated using major events as milestones. The rise and fall of Kennis Music is a prime example of the Nigerian audience’s fickle behaviour when it comes to things that rock the culture. An ignoble fate for a label that once fancied itself ‘’Africa’s Number 1’’ but one that is hardly surprising considering the signs were visible for a while. Matter of fact, for the last 5 years the label has been bleeding talent, grabbing headlines only when another B-Lister announces their exit. Fast forward to 2015 and Kennis music finds itself unable to come up with the hits- singles or artistes- that can guarantee its relevance in today’s fast changing world.
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