Ikuforiji Olaitan Abdulrahman, better known as Oxlade, has officially unveiled his signing to international labels—Columbia Records UK. He announced this via his socials with the caption: “New Beginnings. New Blessings . . . Let the year begin” in a video in which Oxlade burst out some cool dance moves to the instrumental of a soon to be released single.
New beginnings . New Blessings..
Let the year begin 🌴😤 pic.twitter.com/cYA1tmTteq
— ᴏxʟᴀᴅᴇ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴀғʀɪᴄᴀ (@oxladeofficial) March 9, 2022
Oxlade signs a deal which sees him being under Epic Records as well, as Epic Records was founded by Columbia Records which happens to be a subsidiary to Sony Music Entertainment. Oxlade will officially kick-start being a member of Epic Records, Columbia Records UK by releasing a new single titled “Want You” on March 18th.
Want You – 18/3/22
— ᴏxʟᴀᴅᴇ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴀғʀɪᴄᴀ (@oxladeofficial) March 9, 2022
Although Oxlade 2022 might have started on a controversial base, he has however gone on to do some stellar things in his career in just 3 months since the year started, one is the fan favourite “Money” with Ghanaian star Efya on Basketmouth’s “Horoscopes” album, another is the “Oxlade Refix” of Skiibii’s “Baddest Boy” accompanied by a 1 minute 14 seconds video; not forgetting the official music video release of “Non Living Things” by Sarkodie featuring Oxlade which has amassed 1.2 millions views so far.
Oxlade is described as one of the biggest African music sensations in the short clip announcing his signing to both records. They also gave nod to the outstanding track “Away” from his debut EP, Oxygen. Closing out the video is the writing: “He is now ready to take over the global music scene with his new track “Want You” to be released on March 18th.”