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While the music industry in Ghana has undergone a period of growth and development, it has also lost some of its charm with artists becoming more and more commercially centred. In fact, the music industry in Ghana has undergone a period of great transformation in the mid-1990s when the number one music recording artist in the country was a woman. The most popular artist who broke out and dominated the music scene in 1991 was Anah Simon.
While the music industry in the country has undergone a period of growth and development, it has lost some of its charm with artists becoming more and more commercially centred. In fact, the music industry in the country has undergone a period of great transformation in the mid-1990s when the number one music recording artist in the country was a woman. The most popular artist who broke out and dominated the music scene in 1991 was Anah Simon.
In the mid-1990s, Simon’s career was established by her success in the UK album sales charts. In April 1992, the album, ‘Anah Simon, The World at My Feet’ by Anah Simon, achieved the number one spot on the UK album sales chart. The album sold more than 200,000 albums in the UK and reached number-one in 10 other countries including the USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Italy, France, Spain and Sweden.
Anah Simon
The success of the album and the fact that Simon became the number one female artist in the world in the mid-1990s gave her the right to demand equal rights and privileges as well as the right to earn more money for her work and have more control of the artist’s success. Simon’s success brought about the downfall of other artists and the music scene in Ghana.
During her career, Simon released 7 albums. Simon’s music gave her the right to use her name as the artiste, make it difficult for other artists to be taken off the air and even to have more control over their career. This new-found fame made her believe that she could use her name as the artiste and use her talent to earn more money for her work and take greater control of her career.
At the same time, the success of Simon’s music industry career also made it hard for