{"id":373543,"date":"2026-01-16T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373543\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:56:08","slug":"i-made-3-million-from-selling-300-songs-from-my-catalogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373543\/","title":{"rendered":"I made $3 million from selling 300 songs from my catalogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/television\/news\/Upclose-with-Ghanaian-Musician-Comedian-David-Oscar-Dogbe-Talkertainment-136777\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10549966.295.jpg\" alt=\"Shatta Wale is a Ghanaian Dancehall artiste\" title=\"Shatta Wale is a Ghanaian Dancehall artiste\" width=\"295\" height=\"202\" \/> play video<\/a>Shatta Wale is a Ghanaian Dancehall artiste<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Music catalogue sales are steadily gaining attention among Ghanaian artistes, with musician Shatta Wale revealing that he has earned $3 million from selling his catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>During a TikTok live on January 15, 2026, the SM boss said he had sold about three hundred songs to an external party and earned $3 million from the deal. <\/p>\n<p>According to him, he used part of the money to buy houses and also invest in his online ride-hailing company.<\/p>\n<p>Shatta Wale also took a jab at a colleague who had argued that no Ghanaian music catalogue was worth that amount.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/EXPLAINER-Why-companies-buy-music-catalogues-and-how-they-make-their-money-back-1997358\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EXPLAINER: Why companies buy music catalogues and how they make their money back<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have over 11,000 songs online that my team is still trying to gather. I sold 300 of my songs for $3million, used the money to buy houses, do whatever I want to do with it, put some in my Shaxi business and other businesses. Your same artiste went to say there\u2019s nobody in Ghana that has a catalogue worth that much,\u201d Wale said.<\/p>\n<p>Stonebwoy had earlier shared on DJ Slim\u2019s Loud Lounge in September 2025, that he does not believe any Ghanaian music catalogue was valued at $3\u20134 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe that any catalogue in Ghana currently is going to earn a mention at around $3\u20134 million,\u201d Stonebwoy said.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over music catalogue sales and value has been ongoing since 2025 when MOG Beatz publicly claimed Shatta Wale had not paid him for production work on two albums, a matter that has since been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">\u201cI sold 300 of my songs for $3 million. I have over 11,000 songs online that my team is still trying to gather.\u201d &#8211; Shatta Wale <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HaaVYwGd0E\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HaaVYwGd0E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EDHUB\ud83c\udf0d\u2139 (@eddie_wrt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eddie_wrt\/status\/2011948378704277941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 15, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>AK\/EB<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"play videoShatta Wale is a Ghanaian Dancehall artiste Music catalogue sales are steadily gaining attention among Ghanaian artistes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-373543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}