Most Viewed Singers

About this list: how the artist totals are built

Alka Yagnik leads this list with 82.28 billion views across 4,185 tracked uploads, ahead of Arijit Singh on 66.69 billion. The list holds 1,567 active artists across every language we track in all, whose catalogues add up to 110,394 tracked uploads and 2,082.1 billion YouTube views.

• Most viewed artist in this list
  Alka Yagnik — 82,281,007,820 viewsThe sum of the YouTube view counts on the 4,185 uploads we track for this artist. Next is Arijit Singh on 66,692,807,465.
• Artists on this list
  1,567 active artistsTheir catalogues add up to 110,394 tracked uploads and 2,082.1 billion YouTube views.
• Past 100 million views
  1,069 of 1,567337 of those have passed a billion views in total.
• Catalogue depth
  640 of 1,567 have 25 or more tracked uploadsThe largest single catalogue in this list runs to 4,185 uploads.
• Head-to-head votes cast
  60,081 votesEvery artist starts on 100 points; wins add points and losses take them away, so the Fan Votes ordering is decided by visitors rather than by view counts.
• Artists with a fan rating
  210 of 1,567Their scores average 6.42. The other 1,357 artists carry no rating yet, so the Top Rated tab runs through 210 rated artists before the unrated ones begin.
• Most recent addition
  19 October 2026The earliest entry still on this list was added on 6 December 2025.
• Totals last recalculated
  27 October 2026, 18:47 (server time)Rewritten by the scheduled job that re-reads every tracked upload from the YouTube Data API.

How this data is collected

The view figure beside each artist is not a chart position, an estimate or a score we assigned. It is the sum of the YouTube view counts of every upload credited to that artist in our catalogue, and the number next to it is how many of those uploads we currently track — the catalogues on this list add up to 110,394 tracked uploads.

Those per-upload counters are read from the official YouTube Data API by a scheduled job that re-reads the catalogue once a day. The artist totals are then recalculated from the uploads rather than added up as they arrive, so a figure that drifts is corrected on the next run instead of compounding. The most recent recalculation for this list finished on 27 October 2026, 18:47.

Because the totals are rebuilt from the uploads each time, an artist's number can fall as well as rise. If a video is deleted, set to private or blocked, its views stop counting and that artist's total drops at the next refresh.

An artist enters this directory when we find credited uploads on an official artist or record-label channel; visitors can also submit an artist, and submissions are reviewed before they appear. Only artists marked active are listed, so a duplicate or merged entry disappears from the count rather than sitting here empty.

The All tab drops the language filter, so every active artist we track is included here — that is why this view is larger than the Punjabi, Hindi and Haryanvi tabs. By contrast the five sort tabs reorder the same 1,567 artists rather than changing which ones appear.

We host no audio or video ourselves. Every figure here traces back to a YouTube upload published by the artist or their label, and the site embeds YouTube's own player.

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