She left behind global megastars BTS to become the top streamer
Indian playback singer Alka Yagnik become the most streamed artist of 2022 in You Tube according to the Guinness World Record. Alka Yagnik amassed a staggering 15.3 billion YouTube streams in 2022, and an average of 42 million per day. She is currently in first place in YouTube's 2022 global rankings, ahead of Bad Bunny (Puerto Rico), who received 14.7 billion streams and has been ranked second.
Guinness World Records also revealed that Alka Yagnik has, for the past three years, been the most streamed musician on the site, with 17.7 billion streams in 2021 and 16.6 billion in 2020. The top five list was completed by Udit Narayan at 10.8 billion, Arijit Singh at 10.7 billion, and Kumar Sanu at 9.09 billion.
India accounted for 12.3 billion which is approximately 80 per cent of Yagnik's 2022 streams, and she was also the most-listened-to singer in Pakistan (683 million streams).
The top ten was dominated by South Korean superstars BTS with 7.95 billion streams and BLACKPINK at 7.03 billion, while other well-known performers had to settle for positions further down the list. Taylor Swift (4.33 billion) was in 26th place, Drake (2.9 billion) was in 50th place, and The Weeknd (5.7 billion) was in 13th place.
Alka Yagnik has been the one of the most successful and popular Indian singers and has recorded more than 20,000 songs for both albums and films over the span of four decades of her career.
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