Michael Owusu Addo, better known as Sarkodie in the entertainment industry, made history by being the first musician from Ghana to amass one million subscribers on YouTube. Sarkodie is a celebrated hip-hop singer.
Since joining the platform on December 2, 2012, Sarkodie has consistently kept his audience interested by posting a total of 266 videos; as of July 14, 2023, these videos have accumulated a combined total of 300,443,844 views.
The video for Sarkodie's most successful song, "Pain Killer," which features Runtown and has garnered 24 million views, is the remix of "Adonai," which included Castro before he passed away. It has received 93 million views on YouTube. Sarkodie's second most popular video is "Pain Killer."
Shatta Wale, who joined the site on November 19, 2012, is currently the competitor with the most direct competition due to the fact that he has 964,000 subscribers and an overall total of 272,229,350 views. The collaboration between Joint 77, Addi Self, and Captan on Shatta Wale's most popular video, 'Taking Over,' has resulted in 19 million views being accumulated.
Stonebwoy currently has a total of 283 videos uploaded to YouTube under his name, in addition to 653,000 subscribers.
Because of his significant contributions to the Ghanaian music business, he has been recognised with a number of awards, one of which being the Vodafone Ghana Music Award for "Artiste of the Decade."
At the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards, it was revealed that he was the inaugural winner of the 'Best International Flow' artiste award.
As one of the most popular African rappers in the history of the genre, he is also known as one of the key proponents of the Azonto genre and dance.
In 2015, AfricaRanking.com placed Sarkodie in third place on its list of the 'Top 10 African Rappers of 2015.'
In the same year, The Guardian ranked him as one of the best five hip-hop talents on the African continent. He was one of the artists.
In both 2013 and 2015, Forbes and Channel O put him seventh on their respective lists of the 'Top 10 Richest/Bankable African Artistes.'
The Ghana Music Awards USA (GMA-USA) presented him with the "Artiste of the Year" award in the year 2020.
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