Rapper Badshah has become the fifth most-viewed hip-hop artist globally on YouTube with more than 26.1 billion views, making him the only Indian artist in a list otherwise dominated by Drake, Eminem, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne, according to music analytics platform Chartmasters.<\/p>\n
The ranking puts Badshah in a bracket no other Indian artist has reached. Though fellow Indian artistes late Sidhu Moosewala and Karan Aujla feature on Chartmasters\u2019 broader list of the 1,000 most-viewed hip-hop artists on YouTube, neither has broken into the top five.<\/p>\n
The achievement comes at the two-decade mark of Badshah\u2019s career, spanning more than 150 releases that have collectively drawn more than 25 billion streams across digital platforms.<\/p>\n
On Spotify, he currently leads Indian hip-hop artists with 19.9 million monthly listeners, ahead of Yo Yo Honey Singh, AP Dhillon, Karan Aujla, Shubh and Hanumankind.<\/p>\n
Alongside Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, Neha Kakkar and Lata Mangeshkar, Badshah also ranks among India\u2019s most successful YouTube performers across genres.<\/p>\n
The achievement marks a significant milestone for Indian hip-hop, signaling the genre\u2019s growing weight on world stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Badshah has become the fifth most-viewed hip-hop artist globally on YouTube with more than 26.1 billion views,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[273722,273723,273724,273725,273726,79709,49,48,75,273727,273728,341,273729,17958],"class_list":["post-770924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-badshahcareer","tag-chartmasters","tag-desihiphop","tag-spotifyindia","tag-youtubeviews","tag-badshah","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-globalhiphop","tag-indianhiphop","tag-music","tag-musicmilestone","tag-rapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}