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Why YouTube views are all the craze in the digital era

This week, Tanzanian pop artiste Nasibu Abdul alias Diamond Platnumz clocked the four million YouTube subscribers mark, the highest for any artiste in the region.

This comes barely a month after the Wasafi Classic Baby music stable boss made history by becoming the first musician in sub-Saharan Africa to clock more than one billion views on YouTube.

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