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Most Streamed Jamaican Artists On YouTube in Jamaica 2021

01/04/2022 by Reggaeville

The year 2021 is over and we wanted to find out who had the most streams on YouTube last year. To find the very accurate numbers we had to check the YouTube Music Charts on January 2nd. Only on this single day did the 12-month-statistics display the period from January 1st to December 31st. We did this in great detail and took into account around 150 artists charts in order to be able to present the exact figures and compile some TOP lists for you:

WORLDWIDE: MOST STREAMED JAMAICAN ARTISTS [read the news here]
WORLDWIDE: MOST STREAMED ARTISTS ON YOUTUBE 2021 [read the news here]
IN JAMAICA: MOST STREAMED JAMAICAN ARTISTS [read the news below]

The usability of the YouTube Music Charts page is not perfect. The only available time periods are set by default to 7, 28, 90 (days) and 12 months. It's possible to filter by cities and countries and also search for artists, which are listed in their database, but not all artists can be selected from the start and we had to navigate heavily to find additional artist links. Some were nowhere to be found, such as Hempress Sativa, The Wailers, Jo Mersa Marley, Don Carlos, UB40 feat. Ali Campbell...

Even if we are publishing these figures for the first time this year, we have been observing the YouTube Music Charts for the past years and can therefore mention the change from the previous year for numerous artists.

All the numbers that we have compiled are taken from the official YouTube Music Charts, but we cannot guarantee that they are 100% correct. During our research we found a few inconsistencies. Here are two examples:

The chart of the Reggae singer Luciano contains uploads of the German rapper Luciano.
Christopher Martin's chart displays 29.8 million plays, but his cover version of Passenger's song Let Her Go, which had 6 million plays in 2021 alone on the Reggaeville Youtube channel, is not taken into account.

Please note, that the list does not claim to be complete.

Below is the TOP20 list of the most streamed Jamaican artists. In fact, Vybz Kartel is the most played artists in Jamaica, but listed as #1 artist with the most views on YouTube in 2021 is the "Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes" channel. The popularity in Jamaica is not a surprise, cause it's the world's 2nd largest YouTube channel. In the worldwide ranking it has the second most subscribers (125 million) and the second most views (111,51 billion). Also not relevant for this TOP20 list: US singer Chris Brown, who was the #20 most played artist in 2021.

IN JAMAICA: MOST STREAMED JAMAICAN ARTISTS ON YOUTUBE IN 2021 (VIEWS/PLAYS) - TOP20

1.	VYBZ KARTEL	64,3 Million
2.	CHRONIC LAW	63,8 Million
3.	ALKALINE	60,7 Million
4.	SKILLIBENG	52,3 Million
5.	INTENCE	50,3 Million
6.	MASICKA	45,7 Million
7.	TEEJAY	43,5 Million
8.	POPCAAN	40,1 Million
9.	SQUASH	38,4 Million
10.	SKENG	36,3 Million

11.	TOMMY LEE SPARTA	34,9 Million
12.	RYGIN KING	25,6 Million
13.	SHENSEEA	25,5 Million
14.	DEXTA DAPS	23,6 Million
15.	SPICE	20,7 Million
16.	JAH VINCI	20,5 Million
17.	RYTIKAL	20,0 Million
18.	SHANEIL MUIR	17,7 Million
19.	JADA KINGDOM	16,1 Million
20.	JAHSHII	16,1 Million

ABOUT THE YOUTUBE CHARTS & INSIGHTS
How is YouTube Charts calculated?
The YouTube Charts break down the most viewed music on YouTube by song, video, and artist score. Paid advertising views on YouTube don’t count towards YouTube Charts.

Top Songs ranks the overall performance of a song on YouTube by view count.
It’s calculated by combining each official version of a song including:

The official music video
User generated content that uses the official song
Lyric videos
An artist’s “total views” are the combined views of songs associated with the artist.

YouTube Music Insights
YouTube's Music Insights tool lets you find out what’s popular in cities and countries/regions around the world. Our tool allows you to go in deeper and learn even more about the most popular artists on YouTube.

Part of YouTube.com/Charts, Music Insights is calculated by combining each official versions of a song including: