Boomplay, a music streaming site with over 38 million users globally released a list of best performing artists in Kenya based on the demand of their songs on their app for the year 2018.

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Boomplay reports indicate that Kenya's music streams rose above 1.1 billion with over 134,000 user-generated playlists globally, almost 70% increase compared to the previous year.

Bahati widely known for her "Mama" song was declared the Boomplay gospel artist of the year. 

The "Mama" hit-maker released both single and collabos last year. He also made gospel tours to different parts of the country and signed artists to his recording label EMB. 

Kenya's gospel artists performed exemplary well with Evelyn Wanjiru and Gloria Muliro also featuring in the list of top gospel artists of the year.  

Gloria Muliro song Narudisha also topped as the most trending song in Kenya followed by Melanin by Sauti Sol ft Patoranking and Malaika by Nyashinski. 

2018 was Gloria's year as her song Narudisha came second in the most played category followed by Vimbada which came third from Moji Shortbaba ft Jabidii who are also gospel artists.

 Top music video category, videos that had the highest views Malingo by Willy Paul and Ten over Ten by Bahati also featured in the list that was dominated by secular video songs. 

 In the most popular genre category of 2018 Christian and Gospel came second after Afropop. Here are the top 10 artists: