The Richest Hip Hop Brazilian Musicians In 2023

According to data gotten from YouTube, some Brazilian artists have managed to rank the top 100 list of the artists with the most views in the world. This is quite an accomplishment considering that English is the dominate language in the world of music and very few Brazilian artists sing in English. Among YouTube’s Top 100 artists we find seven Brazilians on this select list. Artists such as Marília Mendonça, Henrique and Juliano, Zé Neto and Cristiano, Jorge and Mateus, Wesley Safadão, Anitta and Gusttavo Lima are some of those lucky artists. We know that that there are countries in which people are into Brazilian artists, as we recently saw in our list of top Brazilian female rappers heard outside of Brazil.

The fact that Brazilian artists managed to make this list is actually quite astonishing considering that Brazil’s 210 million people are the base market of these artists, this against the billions of people in the global reach of artists that sing in English. Add this to the fact that the United States is still the world’s largest exporter of Pop culture in the form of film and music and you realize what an accomplishment this really is.

It should come as no surprise that there aren’t any artists that I’m really into on this list. I wonder why? Four of the artists are from the world of Sertaneja, one is classified as Electronic Forró, another plays Sertanejo and Forró and the seventh mixes elements of Pop, Funk Carioca and Reggaeton. The last description applies to Anitta who has a few songs that I’m familiar with.

1 Xuxa – 1 billion reais

2 Roberto Carlos – 500 million reais

3 Zezé di Camargo and Luciano – 200 million reais

4 Ivete Sangalo – 180 million reais

5 Chitãozinho and Xororó – 120 million reais

6 Leonardo – 100 million reais

7 Calypso Band – 70 million reais

8 Daniel – 60 million reais

9 Claudia Leitte – 30 million reais

10 Luan Santana – 30 million reais