{"id":84441,"date":"2023-07-17T12:06:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T12:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/17\/sarkodie-hits-one-million-subscribers-on-youtube\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T12:06:14","slug":"sarkodie-hits-one-million-subscribers-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/17\/sarkodie-hits-one-million-subscribers-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkodie Hits One Million Subscribers On YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Sarkodie\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Celebrated hip-hop artiste Michael Owusu Addo, known in showbiz as Sarkodie, made history by being the first artiste from Ghana to gain one million YouTube followers.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkodie has continually engaged his audience through 266 video posts since joining the platform on December 2, 2012, amassing a total of 300,443,844 views as of July 14, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The remix of \u2018Adonai\u2019 with the late Castro has received 93 million views on YouTube, and is Sarkodie\u2019s most popular video, followed by the smash song \u2018Pain Killer\u2019 with Runtown, which has gained 24 million views.<\/p>\n<p>Shatta Wale, who joined the platform on November 19, 2012, has 964,000 subscribers and 272,229,350 views overall, making him the closest rival on the platform. With Joint 77, Addi Self, and Captan, Shatta Wale\u2019s most watched video, \u2018Taking Over,\u2019 has garnered 19 million views.<\/p>\n<p>Stonebwoy presently has 283 videos to his name and 653,000 subscribers on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>His contributions to the Ghanaian music industry have earned him numerous\u00a0accolades, including the\u00a0Vodafone Ghana  Award\u00a0for \u2018Artiste of the Decade\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He was announced the first winner of\u00a0BET\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Best International Flow\u2019 artiste at the 2019\u00a0BET Hip Hop Awards.<\/p>\n<p>He is also considered one of the major proponents of the\u00a0Azonto\u00a0genre and dance, and one of the most successful African rappers of all time.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, <strong><em>AfricaRanking.com<\/em><\/strong> ranked Sarkodie third on its list of the \u2018Top 10 African Rappers of 2015.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In the same year, The Guardian\u00a0listed him as one of its top five hip-hop acts on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>He was ranked eighth on Forbes and Channel O\u2019s 2013 and 2015 list of the \u2018Top 10 Richest\/Bankable African Artistes.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, he won \u2018Artiste of the Year\u2019 during the Ghana  Awards USA (GMA-USA).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarkodie\u00a0 Celebrated hip-hop artiste Michael Owusu Addo, known in showbiz as Sarkodie, made history by being the first artiste from Ghana to gain one million YouTube followers. 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