TRENDING: Diamond Platnumz Hits 1BN views on youtubeTops Wizkid, Burna Boy And Davido | Trendingnaija.com.ng

With the buzz around the social media space, one may think Nigerian celebrities are dominating the space in Africa.

But surprisingly, a Tanzanian pop star, Diamond Plahtnumz, has knocked all Nigerian stars by being the first sub-Saharan African singer to get one billion views on YouTube,  according to BBC.

Diamond Platnumz’s main competitors in the YouTube numbers game are Nigerian Afrobeats stars; P Square – 810 million; Davido – 618 million; Flavour – 617 million; Tekno – 574 million; Burna Boy – 507 million; Wizkid – 480 million.

Davido

Davido’s and Burna Boy’s numbers are particularly impressive given they only opened their YouTube channels in 2018 but Diamond Platnumz has been on the platform since 2011.

And StarboyTV is Wizkid’s record label, so if you add the figures to his other channel, he has 802 million views.

Tekno 

Wizkid

“Diamond Platnumz is very hardworking and has great showmanship,” says DJ Edu, who hosts the weekly pan-African music show This Is Africa for the BBC World Service.

And with more than 43% of Tanzania’s 55 million people having access to the internet, mainly via mobile smartphones, there is a huge home-grown Swahili-speaking audience ready to lap up his love songs.