Most efficient and effective policy to destroy the local music industry is to mimick industrialised nations.
Unless songs are used in promotional ads such songs [emoji444] are played to promote artists and deserve no compensation because the economy cannot support it. What we have is a puny, sputtering economy.
If you insist in pay per play, most media houses will shun the local songs [emoji444] badly hurting the musicians of whom the government zealously drool to protect...media houses let alone bars and others will never break even if they pay to play the local songs [emoji444] so they will snub them and glut the market with free yet popular Nigerian songs..and gospel. Our media houses are struggling to make ends meet and this policy will excel in sending them to bankruptcy courts...seeking court protection against marauding creditors...it is chaos designed by the very government which is mandated to safeguard their strategic interests...
Then the government after coming to terms with dwindling local content from our broadcasters will embark upon a retaliation roller coaster and slap a mouthwatering 67% hefty fiat of local content to all media houses driving music based media houses such as EATV and of the brotherhood to go under killing the precocious industry in the process... governments are good in destroying what they did not sow...sadly, we must note...
In the USA where media houses like MTV and its ilk started paying musicians because of a stable revenue base from advertising, TV and cable revenue circumstances which had nothing to do with the Congressional efforts. So let the market roar but do not tamper it to kill the very goose that is beginning to laying you some golden eggs
We rule this policy position as ill-advised...so should be dumped now to promote local musicians