In this day and age celebrity status goes hand in hand with the amount of social media following a celebrity, artiste, model and/or actor has and it is with this numbers that most of them get traction and relevant in the super competitive entertainment business.
That being said, Kenya has super talented artistes in the country who have gained tremendous following on social media and loyal fans who loves everything they do in the personal and/or professional lives and thus the need of having a huge following on social media plays a major role in having your music reach more audience.
For instance, it is argued that the reason why most if not all of Diamond Platnumz’s songs usually trend when he puts them out it’s because of the high YouTube subscribers the Tanzanian heartthrob has which is currently 1.7 million subscribers which makes him not only the east African artiste with high YouTube subscribers but also among the top 3 African artistes with huge following on YouTube.
In Kenya, just like our artistes, comedians have huge following on YouTube like Eric Omondi has 201K subscribers, Njugush 167K subscribers with Henry Desagu having 129K subscribers strictly on video streaming site. Here is the list of the Kenyan artistes with highest subscribers.
Sauti Sol has 287K YouTube Subscribers
Willy Paul has 233K Subscribers on YouTube
Otile Brown has 210K Subscribers on YouTube
Nyashinski has 179K YouTube subscribers
Bahati has 135K subscribers on YouTube
Khaligraph Jones has 104K Subscribers on YouTube
Akothee has 102K YouTube Subscribers
Octopizzo has 101K YouTube subscribers
King Kaka has 86K YouTube Subscribers
Mercy Masika has 76K YouTube subscribers
Elani has 48K YouTube subscribers
Timmy Tdat has 45K Youtube Subscribers
Naiboi has 44K YouTube Subscribers
Gloria Muliro has 38K Subscribers on YouTube
Guardian Angel has 34K YouTube subscribers
Size 8 has 32K Youtube Subscribers
Honorable mentions
Fena Gitu(24K), Bruz Newton(23K), Nadia Mukami(22K), Nameless(22K), Jabidii(21K), Wyre(16K), Masauti(16K), Sanaipei Tande(16K), Moji Short Baba(13K), Stella Mwangi(12k), Kagwe Mungai(9.8K) Muthoni Drummer Queen(7.7K).
