Spice, Sean Paul, and Shaggy Top List of Jamaican Artistes with Most Monthly Listeners on YouTube Music

Reminiscent of Spotify’s monthly listeners feature, YouTube launched a fan-facing public metric listenership feature this year. The monthly audience is an estimate of the number of unique users globally who have viewed or listened to an artiste’s content in the past 28 days across all YouTube formats.

users globally who have viewed or listened to an artist’s content in the past month across all YouTube formats.

For this feature to be accessed publicly, an artiste’s channel’s monthly audience must have over 50,000 listeners in addition to more than 100,000 subscribers. Spice, who has over 2.74 million subscribers on YouTube, currently sits on top of the list of Jamaican artistes with the highest monthly audiences.

With 255 million monthly listeners, the Suh Mi Like It artiste comes out ahead of her Go Down Deh collaborators Sean Paul and Shaggy. The veteran deejays have the second and third highest monthly audiences, 127 million and 55 million, respectively.

Spice’s collaboration with the men also happens to be her top song on the platform, with 658 million plays.

Skillibeng has the fourth-highest monthly audience, with 52.8 million listeners.

Konshense, Charley Blacks and Shenseea have the fifth, sixth and seventh-highest monthly audiences, with 44.8 million, 41.2 million and 37.9 million, respectively.

Stefflon Don has the eight-highest monthly audience, with 30 million monthly listeners.

Vybz Kartel, who recently made history for his sold-out concerts in New York, has the ninth-highest monthly audience, with 13 million monthly listeners.

Other notable artistes are Popcaan, Beenie Man, Alkaline, Masicka, and Koffee, with 4.83 million, 3.1 million, 2.8 million, 2.28 million, and 2.33 million monthly listeners, respectively.

YouTube Music: Monthly Audience takes into account an artiste’s global viewership and listenership across all YouTube formats. This is inclusive of collaborations uploaded to other channels, long-form videos, and shorts uploaded by the artiste, their label, or fans.

Global viewership and listenership from non-music content from the artiste’s channel are also included in the monthly audience calculation.