Frontline record label, TunesBid, has dragged fast rising artiste, Ayorinde Mafoluku, well known as Ayo Maff, to court over breach of contractual agreement. The action highlights the often-contentious relationships between artistes and record labels, where creative vision and financial interests collide.

According to the label, following failed attempts to resolve the contractual breach, amicably, it became evident that neither the artiste nor his management had any interest in peaceful resolution.

As a result, TunesBid Limited instructed its legal team, led by Zaeda Oracle, to begin exploring legal avenues to address the blatant breach of contract.

The label, in a statement on its Instagram page, shared Maff’s picture with a caption that reads: “Notice to the General Public: Breach of Artist Recording Contract by Ayo Maff (Ayorinde Mafoluku),” and further states: “This is for the Notice of the General Public.”

TunesBid accused Ayo Maff and his management of breaching the contract signed in December 2023. In a statement signed on Monday, July 21 by its Chief Executive Officer, Precious Okolie, the label alleged that despite investing significant resources to promote the artiste, including funding singles like Street Anthem, 7 Days, and Dealer, he breached their contractual agreement.

Reacting to the allegation, Ayo Maff’s manager, Ayotunde Oyefeso, accused TunesBid of not fulfilling its financial obligations to the artiste.
According to him, it was expressly stated in the contract that if the label did not hold up its end of the bargain, the singer was free to take a walk from the deal.

“We gave the label a two-week notice of our intention to walk away, as stipulated in the contract, and if they wanted to rectify the situation, they could have done that within that time. According to the contract, Ayo was supposed to get an advance sum of N100 million, but because we didn’t want to collect the money at once, we asked the company to pay N25million quarterly. But they never paid a dime, except one time that the CEO of the label gave him N100 for his ‘sacrifices’,” Oyefeso said.