Jamaican dancehall star Masicka has officially announced that his third studio album, Forever Reign, will be released through Def Jam Recordings on August 14.
The announcement was made on Sunday with a video on social media of a child holding a candle saying, “Forever Reign available August 14.”
This is Masicka’s second set under Def Jam following Generation of Kings released December 1, 2023. That album stands tall as 2024s most played album in Jamaica on Spotify. With the singles ‘Tyrant’ and ‘Limelight’ “Generation Of Kings” sold 3,500 equivalent album units in streams and sales in the US during its first week. Of that amount, 600 were pure copies, while 4,400,000 were in streams, according to data exclusively provided to WMV by Billboard sales tracker Luminate. It debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart
Meanwhile, his debut independent project, 438, enjoyed renewed success last week, climbing the iTunes Reggae Albums Chart to No. 4. Nearly five years after its release, the album charts in 17 countries on Apple Music and four countries on iTunes.
Released independently on December 3, 2021, through Genasyde Records/1Syde Records, the project is currently charting at No. 1 on Trinidad and Tobago’s iTunes Albums Chart and ranks highly on Apple Music in Guyana, Jamaica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Saint Lucia, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Anguilla, Ghana, Dominica, Seychelles, and Trinidad and Tobago. On iTunes, the album is currently charting in Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, and the United States.
The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart, moving 2,864 equivalent album units during its first week, including 733 copies sold in pure album sales during its first week of release. By 2023, 438 had accumulated 50,000 album-equivalent units in the United States, according to Luminate. It is now approaching 100,000 units in combined sales and streaming activity, making it one of the most successful independent dancehall albums of the 21st century.
