Uganda’s Trending Music Chart: June 2026 Week 1 Breakdown

June has barely started and Uganda’s YouTube trending chart is already telling a clear story: Sheebah is at the top with a million views behind her, Joshua Baraka is proving his debut album campaign has lasting legs, and a fresh wave of acts — from Chosen Becky to Eddy Kenzo — are staking new positions in the mid-chart slots. As of the last snapshot taken on 29 May 2026, Uganda’s YouTube music trending list is a cross-section of everything the Kampala scene does well: Afropop collabs, dancehall-tinged Lugaflow, gospel ballads, and the irresistible pull of an international FIFA World Cup anthem filtering through. Here is the full ranked breakdown — who is moving, who is holding, and what the numbers say about Ugandan music as we enter the second half of the year.

At the Top: Sheebah and T Paul 256 Take ‘Nsi Namba’ Past a Million

“Nsi Namba,” the collaboration between Sheebah and T Paul 256 released on 5 May 2026, holds the number-one spot on Uganda’s trending chart with 1,090,693 views, 21,618 likes, and 3,011 comments. That places it well clear of every other homegrown release in the top 25. The infrastructure behind those numbers is formidable: Sheebah’s channel carries 874,000 subscribers and a cumulative 209,101,015 total views across 261 videos, making her the most-subscribed Ugandan artist in our tracked pool. That works out to an average of roughly 800,000 lifetime views per upload — and “Nsi Namba” is already beating that average at under four weeks old.

What makes the performance notable beyond the raw view count is the comment engagement. Three thousand-plus comments in less than a month signals active fan conversation, not passive background listening — the kind of engagement that keeps a record cycling in the algorithm long after its first-week push. The production credit goes to Ayo BassBoi on audio and Edrine Paul on the visual, and the result sits squarely in the dancehall-pop register that Kampala audiences have consistently rewarded. T Paul 256’s featured presence broadens the record’s organic reach into his own audience base. “Nsi Namba” has album-single energy. Watch it hold.

Cindy Sanyu’s Remix Play Holds Firm at #2

“Stay Remix” by Gael Will featuring Cindy Sanyu is second on the chart with 925,987 views, 10,306 likes, and 1,613 comments. The track was released on 1 May 2026, which makes it now a full month in the market and still holding a top-two position — a sign of a record that has moved past opening-week momentum into genuine replay value. One-month longevity in Uganda’s fast-cycling YouTube trending list is harder to achieve than it looks.

For Cindy Sanyu, the collaboration continues a familiar pattern: placing herself on a rising artist’s production to access a fresh audience while her name anchors the record in the charts. Her channel carries 134,000 subscribers and 22,096,196 total views across 145 videos — a catalogue that extracts outsized total reach relative to its subscriber base. Nearly 925K views on a featured slot rather than a solo headline is a strong return. Gael Will, operating through his Risky Music Entertainment imprint and produced with Bangar Boi and Artin Pro on the audio, delivers an Afrobeats-leaning arrangement that makes the record work across streaming platforms and Kampala airwaves in equal measure.

Joshua Baraka’s ‘This Time’ Confirms the Album Campaign Is No Fluke

Joshua Baraka has been on an extended run since the release of his debut album Juvie, and “This Time,” his collaboration with UK producer Jae5, is the clearest current signal of that trajectory. At 733,825 views, 21,088 likes, and 1,559 comments since its 8 May 2026 release, it sits third on Uganda’s trending list. The likes-to-views ratio — approximately 2.9% — is the highest of the top three Ugandan entries, pointing to an audience that is not just streaming but actively endorsing.

The fuller picture of Baraka’s chart presence is even more striking when you factor in his appearance on Element Eleéeh’s “AYAYAAH,” a cross-border collaboration featuring Kenyan vocalist Bien that has accumulated 3,604,763 views since its 22 April 2026 release. That single video carries more total views than any other record in the Ugandan trending list aside from the Shakira/Burna Boy FIFA track — an extraordinary figure for a song now well past its first month. Baraka’s own channel stands at 244,000 subscribers and 64,797,177 total views across 263 videos. Having a domestic solo hit and a pan-African collab trending simultaneously is the kind of chart presence most artists spend an entire year trying to build.

The Mid-Chart Fighters: John Blaq, King Saha, A Pass, and Lydia Jazmine

Positions five through eleven form a competitive cluster of established names and mid-tier operators fighting for algorithm real estate in Uganda’s weekly chart.

John Blaq‘s “Ngezaako,” also released 8 May 2026, sits at 252,944 views with a tight 105-video catalogue behind it. His channel holds 243,000 subscribers and 38,717,690 total views — a body of work that concentrates its streaming weight rather than spreading thin across a bloated upload history. “Ngezaako” has yet to crack the 300K mark that would suggest crossover momentum, but its sustained mid-chart presence shows a loyal audience returning to it.

King Saha and Winnie Wa Mummy’s “Wekka,” dropped 6 May 2026, holds at 283,372 views. Saha’s channel is one of the most efficient in the entire tracked pool: 295,000 subscribers, 74,820,678 total views, only 82 videos — an average of more than 900,000 lifetime views per upload. “Wekka” has room to climb once the algorithm runs its promotional cycle through June.

A Pass and Kaboo’s “Miracles” (25 April release) contributes 260,297 views to the mid-chart, while Lydia Jazmine’s “Ameenallah” (19 May) pulls 215,073 views with a 2.7% likes-to-views ratio that suggests engaged, not passive, listeners. Jazmine’s channel — 235,000 subscribers, 57,366,007 total views, 256 videos — confirms she is one of the more reliable weekly performers on Uganda’s YouTube chart. “Ameenallah” feels like a grower.

One under-discussed mid-chart entry worth flagging: An-known Dicey’s “Know Better,” released 8 May 2026, sits at 151,989 views but carries 2,332 comments — a comments-to-views ratio that is among the highest in the entire trending list. High comment counts at relatively modest view numbers typically indicate an artist with a vocal, invested fanbase rather than broad passive reach. That is the kind of foundation artists build careers on.

New Arrivals: Chosen Becky’s ‘Zabike’ and Eddy Kenzo’s ‘Low Key’

Two of the freshest entries in the chart offer contrasting but equally encouraging profiles. Chosen Becky’s “Zabike,” uploaded on 27 May 2026 — just two days before the snapshot was taken — sits at 98,149 views with 4,674 likes and 613 comments. A nearly 4.8% likes-to-views ratio in the first 48 hours is exceptional by any Uganda YouTube benchmark, and the comment activity confirms the engagement is genuine. In the video’s own description, “Zabike” is framed as a personal gift — and that intimacy has clearly translated into fan warmth on the comment thread. Watch this one move fast through June.

Eddy Kenzo‘s “Low Key,” released 25 May 2026, registers 121,548 views, 3,412 likes, and 472 comments. The record slots into a smooth Afropop lane — “about private love, real connection,” per the video description — and shows that Kenzo’s fanbase can still activate quickly around new material. His 2015 BET Award for Best International Act: Africa remains one of the benchmark moments in Ugandan music’s continental history, and consistent new releases keep that legacy audience engaged while introducing him to listeners who were primary school age when “Sitya Loss” went viral. “Low Key” is an early-chart entry; it has time to build.

International Tracks in the Mix: FIFA, Afrobeats, and Amapiano

An honest reading of Uganda’s YouTube trending list requires acknowledging that several of its highest view-count entries are not Ugandan. The FIFA World Cup 2026 official song, Shakira and Burna Boy’s “Dai Dai” (released 23 May 2026), registers 37,955,037 views in the Uganda regional trending feed — a figure that dwarfs every domestic release on the chart. Tournament fever is pulling viewers to the video in Uganda as across the continent, and it is ambient traffic rather than direct competition for local artists: fans streaming “Dai Dai” are typically consuming it alongside domestic music, not instead of it.

Nigerian Afrobeats act BNXN and Sarz bring “Back Outside” (24 April release) at 3,610,443 views, and South African amapiano collective Mulest Vankay, Pcee, and Scotts Maphuma contribute “Mark Zuckerberg” at 2,116,673 views. Their presence in Uganda’s chart is a reminder that Kampala listeners operate within the full pan-African streaming ecosystem. The real competitive benchmark for Ugandan artists is not just whether they chart domestically, but whether they can hold positions in a mixed regional field. Sheebah, Gael Will ft Cindy Sanyu, and Joshua Baraka are demonstrating this week that they can.

Gospel’s Quiet Dominance in the Data

One chart entry resists easy categorisation. “I Will Not Give Up” by English Audio Bible, a gospel motivation video uploaded 22 April 2026, has reached 3,503,642 views on Uganda’s trending list — a view count higher than any homegrown secular release in the current top 25. It sits at position sixteen on the chart but its numbers are outsized. Gospel music has always maintained a distinct and fiercely loyal listening base in Uganda, one that streams on its own schedule, largely separate from the club and radio release cycles that drive Afropop and Lugaflow. A video that pushes 3.5 million views without significant commercial PR is a clear signal that the faith-based audience in the region is large, organised, and consistent. For artists and labels tracking total addressable audience, the data here is unambiguous.

What the Channel Stats Say About June’s Chart Leaders

The artist statistics layer adds useful context to this week’s rankings. The top five channels by subscriber count — Sheebah (874K), Jose Chameleone (829K), Spice Diana (691K), Rema Namakula (580K), and Pallaso (530K) — are not all present in this week’s trending list. Sheebah leads the chart; Spice Diana holds a position with “Nzigulawo Remix” featuring Vinka at 58,052 views; the others are absent from the top 25 this cycle.

That gap between subscriber rank and weekly chart presence is one of the most instructive patterns in the dataset. Jose Chameleone’s channel holds 829,000 subscribers and the largest total view count of any Ugandan artist in the pool — 223,325,598 views across 338 videos — yet no Chameleone release appears in the current trending top 25. Career totals and subscriber base do not guarantee weekly chart placement; that requires fresh material in the release window. Artists like Joshua Baraka (244K subs, actively releasing from an album campaign) and Chosen Becky (two-day chart debut with top-tier engagement ratios) are demonstrating in real time that release cadence and audience connection are what drive weekly trending performance.

The closing data point worth watching: Winnie Nwagi’s channel shows 131,000 subscribers and 25,151,171 total views from only 19 videos — the smallest video count in our entire tracked artist pool. At over 1.3 million views per video on lifetime average, her per-upload efficiency is extraordinary. When her next release lands, the trending impact will be worth the attention.

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