This artist is followed by more than one million and three hundred and eighty (1,380,000) subscribers to his YouTube channel, he became the fifth while last year he used to be the first due to the song called Nina Siri which continued to be the first in various countries, especially Kenya.

This Nina Siri song was released in 2023, but more than half of the views were added to in 2024, where since its inception it has been viewed more than 35 million times, adding to the 27 more it had in five months, that is, from June 2023 to December 2023, the total is over 61 million.

In the article of Igihe on January 13, 2024, they wrote a story praising Israel Mbonyi for spreading Rwandan music, where they wrote: "Israel Mbonyi recently made a song called "Nina na Sira’’ which is in the Swahili language. It is loved by Kenyans, they liked it to a high level and shared it day by day, now it leads the other most viewed ones, since in just six months it has been viewed by more than 30 million."

This means that Nina Siri is his most viewed song of 2024, which made him come to this list, also with the help of other songs he did in Swahili after that, most of which ended the year of 2023 with the most views, but in In 2024, the number of viewers was more than half multiplied.

An example is Nita Amini song that was released on November 7, 2023. Last year it had 7.6 million views, but in 2024 it increased by more than 20, and now it has 27 million views. It’s his second most-watched video of 2024, bringing him to the top of the list.

In a January 6, 2024 Paradise story that said “Top 10 most watched Rwandan Gospel songs in 2023 – There are only 3 artists!”, Nita Amini song came in at number 3. In that story Paradise said: “This song continues to be viewed day by day, which shows that it will go far. It was published on June 26, 2023. By the end of 2023 it has over 7.6 million viewers.”

At the end of 2024, around November and December, he also released the most watched songs in 2024, namely Amenisaheme, which was watched by more than 5 million people in 2024 alone, because it now has 7.4 million, Malengo ya Mungu was released On December 15, 2023, the year ended with more than 1 million views, but now it has more than 9.9 million views, which means an additional 8 million in 2024, and Jambo was released on December 21, 2023, and the year ended with views of ’less than a million, but in 2024 it increased to 2 million, and now has 3.1 million.

His most watched song of the year 2024 is called Sikiliza. Sikiliza is the song that he released for the first time this year in Swahili. It is his third most watched song on YouTube after Nina Siri and Nita Amini, with over 12.6 million views in just seven months.

After Sikiliza, he release others kike the one called Yanitosha, which has been viewed more than 3.8 million times in just four months since its release, Yericho which has been viewed more than 2.1 million times in just three months and Heri which has been viewed more than 1.6 times in just one month since its release. In summary, Israel Mbonyi came to this list because in this year 2024 he was viewed more than 74.7 million times on YouTube.