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Apart from Bob Marley & family, which are the most viewed 70's roots reggae tracks on You Tube? The tracks that were hits and are featured on reggae compilations get hit the most, especially when they were used for recent hits by "modern" artists.

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Category 1 / over 1 million hits Hits:

Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse, 7,979,937 views
Max Romeo - Chase The Devil ( Original ), 1,659,041 views

Category 2 / six figure hits

COOL OUT SON by Jr Murvin got close to 200'000 views
WAILING SOULS - JAH GIVE US LIFE, 261'000 views
Dennis Brown- Here I Come [Most Watched/Original Post] 382,591
Alton Ellis "I'm Still In Love With You Girl" 518,682 views
Dawn Penn's Original Studio 1 No No No, only 131,864 views
Willie Williams armagideon time, 300'000 views (I think it was featured in Pulp fiction)
Ijahman - Jah Heavy Load 348,351 views
The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana, 319,946 views

Now, for a laugh

Justin Bieber "Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris" 779,200,909 views.........!!!!!!!!!!

Difficult to say, as there are usually many videos of one tune on Youtube. If you sum up the videos of "Money In My Pocket" you reach 1,5 million clicks, but the video with most views got just 658.000 clicks..

8 Million clicks for Night Nurse is wow, impressive!!! Armagedeon Time was in Ghostdog (Jim Jarmusch/RZA).

yes, that's a great moment when Forest Whitaker plays that cd in the car. Jarmusch is a reggae and music lover.

Stritcly roots here I bring

Inner Circle - Bad Boys 3,886,506 views
Inner Circle - Sweat 3,927,378 views

by the way there are ways of buying the views and fake it... anyway I think justin bieber got a few "reggae" tunes, dont know maybe he will be hailed as the new king of reggae one day LOL

Here is a link to youtubes largest reggae video channel made up of many playlists for each genre, sub-genre:

http://www.youtube.com/user/bwoyrough?f ... sults_main

Capleton-Jah Jah City: 7,400,000 views
John Holt-Police in copter: 5,00,000 views
many others with millions and millions.

"Dem think dem reach di ultimate,
but dem reach nowhere yet,
dem get caught in in a internet
and society a tell dem dem a intellect
dem promote too much dead"

Capleton - Jah Jah City, lyrics kinda fit.