Top 10 Most-Viewed Ugandan Music Videos of All Time (2026)
Every few months, a new debate breaks out in Kampala’s music circles — at a rooftop session on Kira Road, in the WhatsApp threads after an Nyege Nyege announcement, in the comment sections of Ugandan music YouTube channels — about which song has truly conquered the internet. Not just trending this week, but built an audience year after year, stream after stream, until the view counter reads like a national achievement. We went straight to the data. Using YouTube’s all-time performance records for Uganda’s major artists, we have ranked the 10 most-watched Ugandan music videos ever posted on the platform. The results confirm some legends you already know, surface a few surprises, and raise sharp questions about who is positioned to join this list in the years ahead.
#10 — Ronald Alimpa: Olusuku Lwa Cement — 10,149,097 Views
At exactly the ten-million threshold, Ronald Alimpa’s “Olusuku Lwa Cement” earns the final spot on this list with 10,149,097 lifetime views. Olusuku lwa cement — loosely, “the problem of cement” — became a cultural shorthand in Luganda-speaking Uganda, and Alimpa’s video weaponised humour and local relatability at a moment when comedy-flavoured Ugandan music was finding its YouTube footing. Ten million views is not a fluke; it is an audience that kept coming back. The entry of Olusuku Lwa Cement into the all-time top ten is a quiet statement about what actually moves Ugandan viewers online: a raw, locally resonant concept built around everyday language can outlast glossy productions with bigger promotional budgets. Raw authenticity, delivered in Luganda, travels further than many industry marketers still acknowledge.
#9 — King Saha & Feffe Bussi: Pretty Pretty Remix — 10,321,828 Views
The “Pretty Pretty Remix” from Feffe Bussi and King Saha has logged 10,321,828 lifetime views — a collaboration that put two of Kampala’s sharpest Lugaflow minds on the same track and watched the audience multiply. Both artists draw from Luganda’s natural musical cadence, and their chemistry sparked listening across Ugandan diaspora communities in the UK and the United States — a pattern visible in several entries on this list. The remix formula worked cleanly: take a hook people already loved, layer in a complementary voice, and give fans a reason to return. Lugaflow’s global reach rarely gets the same column inches as Afrobeats industry discourse, but numbers like 10.3 million views are a data-driven argument that it has a loyal, geographically dispersed audience that keeps the counters moving long after a release date has passed.
#8 — Rema Namakula & The Ben: This Is Love — 12,131,153 Views
Rema Namakula and The Ben’s “This Is Love” sits at number eight with 12,131,153 lifetime views — and it anchors a stat we will return to at the end of this article: Rema appears in the all-time top 25 more times than any other single Ugandan artist. “This Is Love” is Rema in her Afro-pop romance lane: warm vocals over a production with just enough East African swing to travel freely beyond Uganda’s borders. The Ben’s contribution sharpens the song without overpowering the arrangement. What makes this entry particularly striking is the channel context: Rema Namakula currently holds 580,000 subscribers and a total of 159,448,694 channel views across only 65 published videos. That per-video average is elite by any regional benchmark. She does not flood the platform with content; she releases songs that each carry serious weight, and the cumulative numbers prove it.
#7 — Omega 256 x Cindy Sanyu: See You Tonight — 12,898,181 Views
Cindy Sanyu — the self-styled King Female of Ugandan music — earns her place at number seven through a collaboration that became an early proof-of-concept for Uganda’s crossover potential. “See You Tonight” with Omega 256 stands at 12,898,181 lifetime views, built on a melodic hook that sat comfortably in club rotations from Kampala’s Guvnor to Ugandan community nights in London. What makes the number remarkable is what it represents on Cindy’s broader channel: her current subscriber count is 134,000 and her total channel views sit at 22,096,196 across 145 published videos. “See You Tonight” alone accounts for more than half of that entire channel total — a vivid illustration of how one breakout record can define an artist’s entire digital footprint and pull thousands of new subscribers to a channel years after its original release date. Her current single “Leeta” is already at 64,496 views in this week’s trending chart, evidence that the veteran still has fresh chart ambitions.
#6 — Lady Mariam: Tinda Tine — 14,996,421 Views
Lady Mariam’s “Tinda Tine” has reached 14,996,421 lifetime views — nearly fifteen million — making it one of the most interesting entries on this list precisely because it punches so clearly above its channel’s wider visibility. The title translates loosely to “keep pressing” or “keep persisting,” and the song became a gospel and inspirational crossover hit that reached audiences well beyond the usual secular Ugandan music demographics. “Tinda Tine” at 14.9 million views is a data-driven correction to anyone whose mental picture of Ugandan YouTube dominance is limited to Afrobeats and Lugaflow. Gospel and praise music travel further in Uganda’s online ecosystem than the secular-versus-gospel divide inside Kampala’s live venue scene might suggest. That reach is real, and it is reflected in the all-time numbers. Lady Mariam belongs in any serious conversation about Uganda’s most impactful music channels.
#5 — Eddy Kenzo: Tweyagale — 18,628,516 Views
The first of two Eddy Kenzo entries in this list, “Tweyagale” arrives at number five with 18,628,516 lifetime views. The title means roughly “let us be together” in Luganda, and the Afrobeat-inflected production gave the song enough texture to work in Ugandan clubs, on Kampala radio, and on streaming playlists as far as the United Kingdom and diaspora America. “Tweyagale” is part of the body of work that established Kenzo as the most consistent producer of genuinely viral Ugandan content — and the numbers confirm what any committed listener already knew: while many artists on this list own one dominant video, Kenzo occupies two spots in the all-time top ten. His ability to repeat at scale, rather than flash once and plateau, is what separates him in this data. The gap between “Tweyagale” at 18.6 million and number one will become clear very shortly.
#4 — Jose Chameleone: Tubonge — 21,552,813 Views
Jose Chameleone’s “Tubonge” sits at 21,552,813 views, making it the fourth most-watched Ugandan music video of all time and the second-highest Chameleone entry on this list. “Tubonge” — meaning “let’s talk” in Swahili — is a love ballad in the Leon-era Chameleone mode: controlled vocal delivery over a melody that manages to sound simultaneously classic and immediate. The song’s longevity on YouTube is not incidental. It reflects Chameleone’s unusual cross-generational position in Ugandan music: he has fans who were university students when his early catalogue dropped and now have children who are discovering “Tubonge” on their own feeds. That layered, multi-decade audience is rare among any artists anywhere, and it shows in the data. Chameleone’s channel currently holds 829,000 subscribers and 223,325,598 total views across 338 videos — the largest total view count of any individual artist in our dataset. “Tubonge” and its sister entry at number two between them account for over 53 million of those views.
#3 — Spice Diana: Siri Regular — 22,543,276 Views
Bronze position belongs to Spice Diana’s “Siri Regular” at 22,543,276 lifetime views — the single most-watched video on her channel and the record that announced Diana as a genuine YouTube force in Ugandan music. The hook — “siri regular” meaning roughly “secret regular visitor” in Luganda — tapped into a very specific Kampala relationship energy that resonated far beyond Uganda’s borders, landing the video in East African playlists and diaspora listening queues across London, Toronto and Houston. Spice Diana’s channel now sits at 691,000 subscribers and 138,526,090 total views across 319 published videos, making her one of the most prolific and consistently high-performing acts in the Ugandan YouTube ecosystem. But “Siri Regular” remains the record that crystallised her stardom and still pulls new eyes to her catalogue today. Twenty-two and a half million views on a Luganda-language track is not just a local achievement — it is a statement about how far a sharp hook delivered in Ugandan language can genuinely travel.
#2 — Jose Chameleone: Badilisha — 32,282,360 Views
Silver goes to “Badilisha” by Jose Chameleone, which has accumulated 32,282,360 views — the highest view count of any Ugandan music video except one. “Badilisha” (Swahili for “change”) was Chameleone at his sharpest and most exportable: a danceable track with enough regional linguistic flexibility to travel across East Africa and into diaspora listening well beyond. For context, 32 million YouTube views puts a Ugandan music video in the same conversation as mid-tier international chart entries. It is not a niche success story; it is a mass-market achievement that was built video by video, share by share, across years of continuous discovery. Chameleone is the only Ugandan artist with two videos in the all-time top five. The combined view count of “Badilisha” and “Tubonge” alone — 53,835,173 — would be enough to place a single track at number two on this very list. That is the scale of what Chameleone has built across a career that still has not peaked.
#1 — Eddy Kenzo: Sitya Loss — 78,286,344 Views
The conversation ends — and for a long time, starts — at Eddy Kenzo’s “Sitya Loss.” The official music video has recorded 78,286,344 lifetime views, making it, by a very large distance, the most-watched Ugandan music video of all time on YouTube. “Badilisha,” the number-two entry, is 46 million views behind. That gap is not a margin; it is a canyon.
“Sitya Loss” — Luganda for “I don’t fear loss” — launched the Bakisimba-inflected dance challenge that went globally viral in 2014, powered in large part by the Triplets Ghetto Kids whose footwork cracked YouTube’s international recommendation algorithm at a moment when African music was rarely surfaced outside local regional searches. The video reached audiences in Europe, North America and Asia who had never previously engaged with Ugandan music, and many of them followed the trail back to the broader Ugandan scene. Kenzo went on to win the BET Award for Best New International Act in 2015, a landmark recognition that put Uganda on the global music industry’s radar in a way that no artist from the country had achieved before. Twelve years later, the view counter is still climbing. A Ugandan record at 78 million views is not merely a national achievement — it is one of the most-viewed African music videos of the 2010s anywhere on the planet. Sitya Loss redrew what was possible for Ugandan music on the global stage, and the data confirms that its position at the top of this list is not close to being challenged.
The Bigger Picture: What the Numbers Beyond the Top 10 Tell Us
The ten videos above represent the peaks, but the surrounding data is equally revealing about the shape of Ugandan music’s YouTube ecosystem. Rema Namakula appears four times in the all-time top 25: “This Is Love” with The Ben (12,131,153), “Love Commissioner” featuring David Lutalo (8,562,928), “Akatonotono” (8,191,061), and “Banyabo” (8,027,004). No other individual Ugandan artist has placed that many videos in the lifetime top 25. With 580,000 subscribers and 159,448,694 total views from just 65 uploaded videos, her channel’s efficiency ratio — total views per video published — is extraordinary. Rema has published roughly one-fifth the number of videos that Jose Chameleone has, yet her total view count is within meaningful distance of his. Quality over volume, executed at the highest level, compounds impressively on YouTube.
Temperature Touch x Ava Peace’s “Wanula Rmx” at 9,585,192 views and Pallaso’s “Malamu” at 8,223,786 views both sit just outside the top ten, confirming that Uganda’s 8-to-10 million view band is increasingly crowded — meaning the floor for what counts as a generational hit is rising. Artists who break ten million now are doing so in a more competitive environment than those who broke it five years ago.
Meanwhile, this week’s trending chart is showing who may one day challenge for a spot on this list. Joshua Baraka’s “This Time” featuring Jae5 is at 724,518 views in three weeks — and his channel sits at 244,000 subscribers with 64,797,177 total views across 263 videos, a profile that places him squarely in the tier of artists who have not yet produced their defining viral moment but clearly have the audience infrastructure to make one land. Sheebah’s “Nsi Namba” with T Paul 256 is already at 1,070,536 views in under a month, from a channel with 874,000 subscribers and 209,101,015 total views — numbers that remind you the current leading generation is not finished adding to its legacy yet.
The top ten is set. But Ugandan music is producing the next generation of contenders right now.
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