Sony Music moves to erase leaked Wizkid & Drake new collaboration

Few days ago, a new song by Wizkid and his new collaborator Drake appeared online to the excitement of fans all over.

READ: New collaboration between Wizkid and Drake leaks online

The track ‘Hush Up The Silence (Come Closer)’ admittedly sounded like it was unfinished, but it didn’t matter to the millions of Wizkid fans across the world.

According to Nigerian Entertainment Today, the song leak has not gone down well with Wizkid’s new handlers at SONY Music.

Only yesterday, an email from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry to take down the song. The IFPI is a trade association of record companies in the US (of which SONY Music is a part of).

The mail reads in part: ‘We have learned that your service is making available, distributing and/or referring/linking users to infringing copies of the following sound recordings, the copyrights in which are exclusively owned or controlled by one or more IFPI Represented Companies. We are asking for your immediate assistance in stopping this unauthorised activity.’

Usually leaked songs are regarded as theft by the owners of the copyrights and they tend to be very unhappy about it, especially in countries like the USA where intellectual copyright laws are very stringent.

For a few years now, SONY has been the victim of malicious hacks, with a 2014 hack of their email servers that revealed official correspondences, proprietary information and employees’ Social Security numbers.

Wizkid's manager, Sunday Are, has also stated that Wizkid's camp has no idea how the song leaked online

Sources also say that the song is off Wizkid's next album