Otile Brown receives his Youtube Gold Play Button

Otile Brown, who is arguably the best musician in the country and top 5 in East Africa has reached a new milestone in his musical journey. 

The Dusumu hitmaker fresh from a break up with his on and off girlfriend Nabayet will be smiling all the way to the bank, after becoming the first Kenyan artist to hit 1 million subscribers on youtube.

Otile’s Youtube account actually sits at 1.06 Million subscribers and 260,901,100 combined views as of 3rd of February 2022. The singer joined the platform on April 20th, 2016, which means it took him 6 years, and a bevy of chart-topping hits to achieve this milestone.

Youtube appreciated Otile’s effort by awarding him with a Golden Play Button. The Golden Play Button is the second creator award given by the video platform. It is delivered to YouTubers with over 1 million subscribers.

The award has a similar appearance to the Silver Play Button, but is slightly larger and is instead made of gold-plated brass. It has the YouTuber’s name embossed on it, along with the message, “For passing 1,000,000 subscribers.” It also comes with a YouTube letter, congratulating the YouTuber for their Youtube achievement.

Otile posted a celebratory message on his Instagram account that read “Look at what y’all did ..y’all are some amazing human beings 🙌🏽🖖🔥thank you for the 1million YouTube subs 🙏🏼 ❤️… Obizeeeee #justinlovemusic.”

The most popular song on his channel is ‘Dusuma’ featuring Meddi with 36,800,033 views. The infectious love ballad was released on January 17, 2020. His latest song ‘Woman’ featuring Harmonize has already garnered 2,791,942 views in just two weeks (Jan 18, 2022)

Youtube is a popular platform among Kenyans who are looking for on-demand content. The video-sharing juggernaut owned by Google boasts of everything from Entertainment, Sports, Tutorials, Documentaries, Live Events, Music, and even cat videos. Youtube has a market share of 6.32% in Kenya according to reports. 

The platform also offers Youtubers a chance to monetize their content, with reports of top creators raking up to Ksh 1 Million on the platform every month. 

Here are ten musicians with the most YouTube subscribers in Kenya Otile 

Otile Brown

Otile Brown is the most subscribed musician in Kenya with 1.06M subs and a combined 260,901,100 views.

Bahati

Bahati is the second most subscribed musician in Kenya with 919,000 subs and a combined 155,594,393 views.

Willy Paul

Pozze sits in third place with 877,000 subscribers and a total of 166,053,935 combined views.

Sauti Sol

Kenya’s number one group Sauti Sol are number four with 868,000 subs and 224,586,445 combined views.

Khaligraph Jones

The OG is number five with s 572,000 subscribers with a total viewership of 70,261,260 views.

Nyashinski

Sith lace Nyashinski‘s YouTube channel boasts 480,000 subscribers with 91,457,581 total views.

Nadia Mukami

Nadia Mukami has 447,000 subscribers with a total viewership of 49,955,660.

King Kaka

King Kaka’s YouTube channel comes eighth on the list with 362,000 subscribers, and a total viewership of 37,401,775.

Akothee

Akothee has 363,000 subscribers and 55,363,856 views.

Ethic Entertainment

Ethic is number ten with 356,000 subscribers and 43,504,888 views