YouTube Music Award: Prizes for Udo Lindenberg, Apache 207, Ayliva and Nina Chuba

As “sophisticated, casual, chic, hedonistic”. Grill Royal described in the Berliner Zeitung, which means that the restaurant on Friedrichstrasse offers a harmonious backdrop for an awards ceremony for the world’s most famous video platform: At the YouTube Music Awards Dinner last Tuesday, the most successful German artists of the year were honored for their sometimes impressive number of views. Anyone who remembers the inevitable rise of “Komet” will not be surprised that the joint single by Udo Lindenberg and Apache 207 marks another milestone.

As was announced in Berlin, it is not only the song with the most weeks spent at the top of the charts and Lindenberg’s first solo number 1: with 59 million views on YouTube, the two unlikely artists also have the most sought-after music video of the year delivered.

Winners and other guests

Ayliva, on the other hand, was pleased to receive the award as “Artist of the Year”, to which her album “Schwarzes Herz” particularly contributed. “Sie weiss” turned out to be the most popular number on the record, which has now generated more than 30 million views .

The best newcomer, on the other hand, is Nina Chuba, whose most successful video from this year (“Mangos with Chili”) currently has 3.8 million views. The fact that she was able to win over 200,000 subscriptions is also credited to the singer as a positive.

Nico Santos, Otto Waalkes, HP Baxxter, Álvaro Soler, Badmómzjay, Hadnet Tesfai, Katja Krasavice, Nina Chuba, Esther Graf, Saim x Can and YouTube’s Head of Music Gudrun Schweppe were among the prominent guests who attended the celebratory and informal dinner didn’t want to miss out. If you would like to discover more familiar faces and collect impressions of the event, you will find what you are looking for in our gallery!