Jamaican singer Shenseea’s “Never Gets Late Here” debuts at #4 on the US Billboard Reggae Chart dated June 8, 2024. The 14-track album was released by Rich Immigrants/Interscope Records, on May 24 also makes its entry at #18 on the Heat-seekers Chart.
The set was led by the singles “Hit & Run,” “Die For You,” produced by Rvssian, “Neva Neva,” and “Flava” featuring Coi Leray. The music video for “Hit & Run” featuring Masicka and Di Genius has surpassed 50 million streams on YouTube over its lifetime.
Billboard’s Reggae Albums Chart is the week’s most popular albums, as compiled by Luminate, based on multi-metric consumption blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming (audio + video) equivalent albums.
“Never Gets Late Here” executive producer by London On The Track has accumulated 18 million streams on Spotify worldwide within its first week of release, the highest first-week Spotify streams for a reggae or dancehall album in eight years.
Shenseea’s debut album “Alpha” had peaked at No. 2 on the Reggae Albums chart and No. 3 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart.
“Alpha’s” total consumption from sales and streaming in the United States was 4,900 units during its first week of release including 800 pure album sales.
In its first week, “Alpha’s” total consumption also comprised 2,000 units from song sales, 4,616,400 on-demand audio streams, and 750,600 on-demand video streams. The album has now surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify, the fastest dancehall album by a female artist to reach the milestone.
Shenseea told WMV that she intends to enter the K-Pop world and explore the other side of her heritage, which is Korean.
“I am going to step into the K-Pop market, I will,” she says, laughing. “I am going to step in for sure, like we have already started making some moves where that is concerned, but I am also pacing myself because I don’t want to seem like, ‘Oh, I am half Korean, so I am a little bit entitled.’
“I don’t want to go in not knowing anything about the culture because I was raised in Jamaica for 24 years. I’d like to take my time to even learn some words.”
Still on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart this week, “Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley and The Wailers” remains at #1 for 229 weeks after selling 16,000 units. Marley also has “Kaya” at #10.
Sean Paul’s “Dutty Classics Collection” comes in at #2, “Best Of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection” remains at #3.
Stick Figure’s “World On Fire,” “Set In Stone,” and “Wisdom” are at #5, #6, and #8, respectively. UB40’s “Greatest Hits” moves down to #7, and “Here Comes The Hotstepper” by Ini Kamoze is at #9.
