Here Are The Top 10 Highest Paid Kenyan Artistes

Piece by: Kwarula Otieno
Entertainment

Finally, here's where we get to separate the wheat from the chaff. These are the Kenyan artistes who are making money in the Kenyan music industry, apart from performing at shows.

The MCSK has declared the delayed June 2015 SCIENTIFIC PPP distribution of kshs 30.3 million. The declaration relates to the revenue collected between April to June 2015 and has been apportioned using log sheets obtained from the new monitoring system "VERICAST " as adopted by MCSK.

Secular music has regained the top position which had previously been dominated by Gospel music with SAUTI SOL emerging as the highest earners and most popular group during the period April to June 2015. Closely following SAUTI Sol was BAHATI who emerged as number two and reaffirmed the presence of Gospel music with WILLY PAUL at number 4. At number three was vernacular singer LADY WANJA who is a sister to the LATE QUEEN JANE with another vernacular singer MUM CHEROP rounding up the top five highest

earners and most popular artistes based on airplay logs in Kenya for the period APRIL to JUNE 2015.

Here are the top 10 Highest earning Kenyan artistes;

1. Sauti Sol

2. Bahati

3. Lady Wanja

4. Willy Paul

5. Mum CHEROP

6. H-Art The Band

7. Gloria Muliro

8. Rabbit "King Kaka"

9. John De Mathew

10. Hellena Ken