Editors At Large

Reggae is the 10th most favored music genre around the world according to new IFPI Report

Reggae music is the tenth most listened genre around the world according to IFPI’s Engaging With Music Report 2022. The music report from the globally respected music measurement organization is based on

17/11/2022

Music Business·Music Report

Burna Boy Coming To Jamaica’s National Stadium In December

Nigerian superstar Burna Boy, whose “Last Last” hit was must play at every sumner party is coming to Jamaica according to sources close to the matter. There has been several posts on

16/11/2022

Afrofusion·Concerts·Uncategorized

Watch: Valiant Releases “Scholar” In Response To “Dunce Check” Critics

Last week WMV reported that néw artist Valiant made history in Jamaica when he became the first artist to have 5 songs in the top 5 on YouTube in Jamaica since the

16/11/2022

Music

Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley & The Wailers Has Surpassed 3.5 Billion Streams

King Of Reggae – Bob Marley remains a constant on the Billboard chart as Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley & The Wailers out-streams all reggae albums by multiples over the last

16/11/2022

Charts

Brookfield Asset Management Buys Whitney Houston Songs In $2bn Deal With Primary Wave

Brookfield Asset Management is the latest to join the music catalogue rush. The company has acquired the copyrights to Whitney Houston’s global jams “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance With

16/11/2022

Catalogues

Kabaka Pyramid, Protoje, Koffee, Shaggy, Sean Paul

Sales Numbers For 2023 Best Reggae Grammy Nominated Albums

This year, two time Grammy winner Shaggy was nominated for “Come Fly With Me, Sinatra Songbook”, Protoje picked up his second nomination with Third Time’s The Charm, 2020’s winner Koffee’s Gifted, one

15/11/2022

Grammy News·Milestones

Get Ready To Shop On YouTube While You Stream Music & Videos

YouTube is going into ecommerce business with the introduction of new shopping features to the world’s biggest videos site, as the company seek to diversify revenue streams during a slowdown in digital

15/11/2022

Music Business·News

Skillibeng Nominated For Two MOBO Awards

The 2022 MOBO Awards nominees were announced on Friday (November 11), and they replaced “Best Reggae Act” category in favor of ‘Best Caribbean Music Act’. Skillibeng is nominated for both Best International

11/11/2022

News

YZYBEATS Says New Project Coming 2023, Releases New Single “Up Deh” ft. Konshens

Kingston, Jamaica Before now IzyBeats never wanted to be in the spotlight as he was the mastermind behind the scenes making beats but the producer is set to release his debut artist

10/11/2022

News

Rihanna Represents For Dancehall At Savage X Fenty Vol. 4 Show

Rihanna represented for dancehall at the fourth staging of her Savage x Fenty fashion show. Although it was not announced previously, “Pull Up To My Bumper” by Konshens featuring J-Capri was part

10/11/2022

Fashion

Tosh Alexander Talks Working With Busta Rhymes, Nicki Minaj

Tosh Alexander’s clothing line was inspired by travesties happening with black youth across the world, particularly in the US where she grew up. The Jamaican singer is known for her breakthrough feature

07/11/2022

WMV Podcast Content

Chris Blackwell To Be Presented With A&R Award

Music Business Worldwide in association with Abbey Road Studios will be presenting Chris Blackwell, the man who brought reggae music and Bob Marley to the world with the A&R Icon award at

07/11/2022

News

World Music Views Collective

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