{"id":4717,"date":"2015-03-24T09:04:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T09:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2015-03-24T09:04:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T09:04:38","slug":"i-charge-as-high-as-n2million-for-writing-songs-for-artists-harrysong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4717","title":{"rendered":"I Charge As High As N2Million For Writing Songs For Artists &#8211; Harrysong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/harrysong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4718\" alt=\"harrysong\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/harrysong.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/harrysong.jpg 224w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/harrysong-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/harrysong-80x80.jpg 80w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/harrysong-40x40.jpg 40w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/harrysong-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/harrysong-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harrysong has revealed the price of his songwriting skills, which is in excess of a six-figure sum.<br \/>\nThe singer\/songwriter is signed to Five Star Music, and has churned out hit songs including, \u2018Suya\u2019, Better Pikin\u2019, and \u2018Ofeshe\u2019.<br \/>\nHarrysong is also credited with being the brain behind KCee\u2019s hit songs, \u2018Limpopo\u2019, \u2018Pull over\u2019 and \u2018Turn by turn\u2019. A fairytale hit story for the singer came from his song, \u2018Mandela\u2019, a tribute to the late African reformer, which hit over 40 million downloads.<br \/>\nThe singer has disclosed that he charges as much as N2 million to write hit songs for musicians.<br \/>\nThe singer told Punch: \u201cI feel privileged to be a song writer at this time in Nigeria\u2019s history. I remember I used to write songs for N10, 000 while at Ojez because we wanted to be heard. Now, I get between N1m and N2m to write songs. People pay for my services as a song writer because they know how much they will make when the song becomes a hit.\u201d<br \/>\nHarrysong recently starred in a collaboration song, &#8216;Feel it (Africa)&#8217;, which also has input from Iyanya, and labelmate Kcee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrysong has revealed the price of his songwriting skills, which is in excess of a six-figure sum. The singer\/songwriter is signed to Five Star Music, and has churned out hit songs including, \u2018Suya\u2019, Better Pikin\u2019, and \u2018Ofeshe\u2019. Harrysong is also credited with being the brain behind KCee\u2019s hit songs, \u2018Limpopo\u2019, \u2018Pull over\u2019 and \u2018Turn by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/harrysong.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1e5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}