Willy Paul elated after receiving prestigious YouTube award

The Golden Plaque, also known as the YouTube Gold Maker honor awarded to users who reach one million subscribers, has finally been presented to musician Willy Paul.

Pozze thanked his supporters on his social media accounts for helping him reach the new milestone as he excitedly shared the good news.

The singer of the hit song Umeme is one of the Kenyan singers to have amassed more than one million YouTube subscribers.

“Thank you @youtube for the gift this is well received! I just received my 1,000,000 subs award from @youtube

“Thank you all for the love and support and to that blogger that had doubts about my numbers next time just ask me politely and I’ll answer you one love. GOLD,” Willy Paul wrote.

While unveiling his YouTube Gold Creator award, Willy used the opportunity to clap back at critics who have always doubted his YouTube numbers.

“We hit a million subscribers on YouTube. The reason I doing this video is that a while back some bloggers were claiming my subscribers were fake.

We all know that in this country Willy Paul is the only artiste with genuine numbers. I’m mr organic and it will stay like that ,” he said in part.

He joined the streaming platform on March 21, 2010, and so far he has over 211 million views and counting.

Pozze is among musicians who have accumulated over 1 million subscribers. Others are Bahati, Sauti Sol, and Otile Brown.

Otile was the first Kenyan artiste to surpass the one million subscribers mark on YouTube.

He joined the streaming platform on April 20, 2016, and has so far garnered over 330,757,688 views and counting, on his channel

He is followed closely by Bahati who has 919K subscribers and over 206,049,368 views after joining the platform on August 7, 2012.