Asake has announced M$NEY: The Live Album, a forthcoming project produced by British-Ghanaian band The Compozers. Details remain tight for now, but the announcement alone says a lot about where Asake is taking this album. Asake M$NEY Track by Track Review
M$NEY dropped on May 1 as his fourth studio album under his own imprint, GIRAN Republic, in partnership with EMPIRE. The album opened with a live choral performance and drew from a sonic palette spanning Fuji, Amapiano, gospel and jazz, with Asake framing wealth through spirituality and gratitude across its 13 tracks. It broke the record for the most streams in the first week for any album on Spotify Nigeria, pulling in 42.2 million streams and surpassing Wizkid’s previous mark.Asake’s “M$NEY” Breaks Nigeria’s Biggest Debut Week Record
A live album was always going to be on the table. The project was built around orchestral sounds and dance production, which means the bones for a live reimagining were there from the start. Then just last weekend, Asake gave the world a preview of exactly what that could look like.
On June 21, he delivered an exclusive one-night-only performance of M$NEY at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane in partnership with Spotify, backed by a live orchestra, performing album cuts alongside four unreleased songs before an intimate invite-only crowd. Gratitude was performed almost as a ballad, with Asake behind a solitary microphone stand as a choir emerged either side of him. Audience members rose to their feet to a beautiful sound that even the Muffin man would’ve quit his baking to partake in, turning the theatre into something closer to a place of worship than a concert venue. Amen drew call-and-response exchanges across the auditorium, while MCBH triggered the night’s most explosive reaction.Asake x The Compozers: M$NEY The Live Album Is Coming
That is the context in which M$NEY: The Live Album arrives. Not just as a concept, but as a logical next step for an artist who has consistently shown that his music grows in size and gives the best listener-artist connection whenever it meets a room full of people and real instruments.
Who Are The Compozers?
The Compozers are a British-Ghanaian band formed in London, made up of keyboardist Charlie “C Biggz” Mensah-Bonsu, bassist Nana “Pokes” Ntorinkansah, keyboardist David “Melodee” Ohene-Akrasi, and drummer Steven Asamoah-Duah. They began as friends playing music together in their local church in North London before officially forming as a group in 2013.
Their breakthrough into Afrobeats came through a nine-year collaboration with Davido starting in 2014: his UK concert, which introduced them to the genre’s live circuit. From there, the rolodex expanded to include Wizkid, Burna Boy, Stormzy, Tiwa Savage, Ed Sheeran, and Central Cee, with performances at the Royal Albert Hall, Madison Square Garden, and Barclays Center.
In 2023, they backed Asake on his appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing Yoga and Organize, and again at his O2 Arena show. The connection between Asake and The Compozers has been building for a while. Nana “Pokes” Ntorinkansah, the band’s bassist, executive produced M$NEY itself, which makes his band’s role on the live album project less a collaboration of convenience and more a continuation of something already in motion.
The Compozers have sold out 16 independent UK headline shows and have performed at venues ranging from the Roundhouse to Wembley Arena, completing a London residency at the Jazz Cafe in 2025 with multiple sold-out nights.
The group’s drummer Stephen has described their role plainly: “Everyone can play. What we create is an experience that people leave concerts with.” That ethos is precisely why the M$NEY live album makes sense with them attached. They do not simply reproduce music. They rebuild it from the stage up.
No release date has been confirmed yet. But with prior knowledge of what can happen when Asake and The Compozers have been cooking over the years, M$NEY: The Live Album is going to hit very differently.