I paid extra £50,000 for seats to be filled at O2 Arena - Davido

Nigerian singer, Davido says he had to pay extra £55,000 at his sold-out O2 concert held at the O2 Arena, London for the show to start late and avoid performing to a half crowd. 

The ‘Fall’ singer, who is currently on a tour in the United States, told New York’s DJ Ebro on Hot 97 FM that he had to do so to avoid performing to a half-filled hall.

“I was scared though, because … first of all, you know how we Africans do, we’re always late, we take time,” he said in an interview with Hot 97 FM.

“They said I gotta get on stage by 8, and I said alright and then by 8 o’clock my boy came to tell me that brother you can’t go on stage right now and I say what you mean, he said brother everybody is still walking around, I looked at the stadium, half empty. I was going crazy.”

He explained that he had to pay £55,000, which was the cost for a 55-minute extension.

“If I go on that stage that place is half empty, somebody will take that picture and that picture will go farther than anything. I waited till that place was filled.

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“I waited for about an hour and thirty before we started. I’d rather pay the fine because people don’t want you to win. Negativity goes way farther than positivity”.

The 26-year-old singer, who described his father as his biggest fan, said his global success began when he decided to focus on Nigeria.

“When I was out here (in America) for like eight months, nothing really happened. But it was when I decided to finally go back home. When I got back home to do what I do, then people started sending me snaps that yo, I’m hearing your songs every day”.

Watch the full interview below:  

 

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