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J. Sam Industry

J. Sam Industry — self-serve Nigerian music distribution platform with naira payouts, sourced only to its own site.

J. Sam Industry (branded JSI, “The Naija Home of Music”) is a self-serve digital music distribution platform aimed at Nigerian independent artists. Through jsamindustry.com.ng it delivers releases to Spotify, Apple Music, Boomplay, Audiomack, TikTok and other stores, and sells add-on services (promotion, cover art, a marketplace hub) alongside distribution. Pricing and artist payouts are set in naira, going directly to Nigerian bank accounts.

No founder name, founding year or independent trade-press coverage was found; everything known about the company comes from its own site. Its marketing promises artists “100 per cent of your royalties, forever,” but AfrobeatsWire’s own reporting on Nigeria’s self-serve distributors found that JSI’s terms of service set no explicit revenue-share percentage to back that claim.

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