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Top 5 Ghanaian musicians with rake in the highest YouTube earnings - Shatta Wale tops them all
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Top 5 Ghanaian musicians with rake in the highest YouTube earnings - Shatta Wale tops them all

by  Jeffrey Owusu-Mensah 2 min read

Ghanaian music artistes have always had the problem not earning enough from their craft.

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Shatta Wale is the highest-earning Ghanaian musician on YouTube - Survey

Problems like piracy and non-payment of copyright royalties have combined to deny artistes -their much deserved revenue.

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But for those who know their way around social media, they tend to leverage the influence to make bring in some extra revenue especially through their YouTube channels.

A Ghanaian digital marketer, Samuel Barimah, has conducted a research into the YouTube earnings of Ghanaian artistes.

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Using statistics from socialblade.com including the subscription counts and views of these celebrities he has put together a list of the highest-earning Ghanaian musicians on YouTube.

According to Barimah's survey Dancehall King, Shatta Wale topped the list followed by Sarkodie, StoneBwoy, Bisa K'Dei and Becca.

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Below is the list as published on ghanacelebrities.com:

1 SHATTA WALE:

Shatta Wale
Shatta Wale

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Social blade rank rank - 27,587

Estimated monthly earnings – $864 – $13.8k

2 SARKODIE:

Shatta Wale
Sarkodie

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Social blade rank – 35,046

Estimated monthly earnings – $600 – $9.6k

3 STONEBWOY:

Shatta Wale
Stonebwoy

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Social blade rank -82,644

Estimated monthly earnings – $258- $4.1k

4 BISA K’DEI:

Shatta Wale
Bisa K'Dei

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Social blade rank – 74,197

Estimated monthly earnings – $218- $3.5k

5 BECCA AFRICA:

Shatta Wale
Becca

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Social blade rank – 95,741st

Estimated monthly earnings – 120$ – $1.9k

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Jeffrey Owusu-Mensah (HOD Entertainment) Jeffrey is the Head of the Entertainment Desk and a graduate of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) with over 10 years of experience in journalism. He started as a reporter with Ghana News Agency (GNA). He joined Primnewsghana.com in 2016 as an editor. He moved to YEN.com.gh in 2017 as an editor and has risen to his current position. You can contact him via e-mail: j.owusu-mensah@yen.com.gh

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