RCA artist Koffee’s breakout hit “Toast”, the lead single from her debut Ep. “Rapture” is now certified Platinum in the U.K.
The award was given by the British Photographic Industry for selling 600,000 units on Friday (February 10,2023).
The groovy singer became the first and youngest woman to win a Grammy for Best Reggae Album at the 2020 awards.
Her EP. Rapture, went number one on the Reggae iTunes chart.
Before winning the Grammy, Koffee’s music was being curated on playlists from world leaders like Barrack Obama and his wife, Michelle. She has appeared on the major entertainment shows in the US since she burst on the scenes in 2019.
Meanwhile the Spanish Town artist says she is looking forward to seeing Rihanna perform at the Super Bowl this Sunday February 12. She was speaking to Complex Magazine as she walked the Red Carpet of the 65th Annual Grammy Awards where she was nominated for her second Grammy for her debut album Gifted in the Best Reggae Album category.
Koffee said: “Umm actually, weirdly, I want to hear Believe It by PARTYNEXTDOOR featuring her,” when asked which song she was most looking forward to Rihanna performing.
Rihanna shared her love for Koffee in 2019 when she was seen turning up to Koffee’s turntable hot “Toast” after Buju Banton’s “Long Walk To Freedom” concert in Barbados.
Koffee’s – “Gifted” was the most commercially successful new project by a reggae act in the U.S. last year according to data provided to WMV by Billboard sales trackers Luminate.
The album released March 25, has so far clocked 223,000 album equivalent units(with SEA, and with TEA).This includes pure album sales of 1,600 (equalling total on-demand streams (audio + video) of 340 million.)
The Colombia/RCA recording release debuted at number 2 on the Reggae Billboard chart on the week of April 5 with 3500 total units sold in the US in the first week according to Luminate. At the time the album did 700 in total album sales and 3,290,800 streams in one week. Koffee’s “Gifted” also debuted at number 9 on the UK top 100 albums chart.
The album landed at number 5 on the UK physical albums chart and that gave Koffee the distinction of being the first female Jamaican to make the UK albums chart top ten.
