Protoje’s Ancient Future, his third full length studio album has surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify. This is the St. Elizabeth’s first album to reach the milestone. The 11 track album released March, 2015 via Easy Star Records has 109 million streams on the platform.
The album executive produced by Protoje real name Oje Ollivierre and Phillip “Winta” James spent 17 weeks on the Reggae Albums chart, peaking at No. 1 March 28, 2015.
“Who Knows,” featuring Chronixx is the lead single from the album which has been certified Silver in the U.K. for selling 200,000 units in that country on February 25, 2022 by the British Phonographic Industry.
The song’s music video has surpassed 193 million views on Youtube and the song is featured in the Forza Horizon 4 a racing video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios released on 2 October 2018 on Xbox One and Microsoft Windows. An enhanced version of the game was released on Xbox Series X/S on 10 November 2020.
Ancient Future also features from Jesse Royal, Mortimer, Sevana and Kabaka Pyramid.
Earlier this year Protoje spoke candidly to about the need for more reggae spaces and shows in order to rebuild the eco-system.
“Reggae music more than any music in the world feeds off of live music, so the you talk about not being able to have shows not being able to have an eco-system the music has to dip in some way. its to like there are 30 reggae dances in Jamaica,” he told WMV.
“I know My success, Chronixx, Jah9 and the entire reggae revival was built off the strength of performing and doing these shows so that’s why I needed to do this show to energize the eco-system for people to come out again and say ‘wow this is such a crazy vibe’,” he concludes.
