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 5 years in the US.
The Marley collection returns this week as the No. 1 album on the chart after spending 149 weeks on the sales and streams driven chart.
According to data provided exclusively to WMV by Billboard sales tracker Luminate, the album first released in 1984 has so far sold 3,500,000 million equivalent units (sales with SEA, with TEA).
Since it’s re-release on streaming platforms it has accumulated 3.5 Billion in total on-demand streams (audio + video).
This week Sean’s Paul’s Dutty Classics peaks At No. 2 on the Billboard Reggae albums chart in its 121st weeks on that chart.
Best Of Shaggy: Boombastic Collection lands at No. 3. The compilation which recently went Gold in the U.K. spends 189 weeks on the top ten chart.
The Hot Shot artist told WMV: “I’m filled with gratitude, anytime you have a body of work that is recurrent as this it is a significant accomplishment, especially in our genre.”
“Wisdom” by Stick Figure spends a second week at No. 4 after it peaked at No. 1 in its opening week. The album spends 9 weeks on the chart and to date has sold 53,400 equivalent album unite according to data provided by our Luminate correspondence.
Of that figure pure sales for Wisdom is 14,300 copies and 50.3 million total on-demand streams (audio + video) over its lifetime. Their other set ‘World On Fire’ moves up one slot to No. 7 and ‘Set In Stone’ moves up to No. 7.
On the heels of its Grammy nod Koffee’s “Gifted” comes in at No. 8 on the chart this week.
World Music Views reported on Friday November 11, that Koffee’s debut album Gifted is the most streamed reggae album released this 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 with 3,290,800 streams in one week. Koffee’s “Gifted” also debuted at number 9 on the UK top 100 albums chart.
It 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.
Other women of Jamaican descent to have climbed the UK albums chart are Stefflon Don and Diana King.
Gifted also landed at No. 11 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart, which ranks the sales by new and developing musical recording artists each week.
This is Koffee’s most successful project to date and her second entry on the weekly sales and streaming-driven Reggae Albums chart. Her Rapture EP debuted at No. 1 on March 30, 2019.
The UK’s Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week is compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on sales of CDs, downloads, vinyl and weighted audio streams.
Elsewhere on the Billboard Reggae top ten UB-40’s Greatest Hits comes in at No. 5 after 217 weeks on the chart.
Rounding out the top ten are Burna Boy’s Outside and Damian Marley’s Welcome To Jamrock which both re-entered the chart at No. 9 and 10 respectively.
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