Sean Paul is once again the most streamed dancehall act on Spotify globally for the year ending 2022. He also has the most streamed dancehall song on the platform, No Lie Ft. Dua Lipa.
The dancehall-Pop collab has also surpassed the one billion views on YouTube , five years after its release. It’s the Jamaican superstar’s first song as a lead artist to enter the billion views club on the Google owned platform.
The 49-year-old Grammy Award winner told WMV in an interview in April that he was happy about the global impact his music continue to have with audiences.
“Feels good to know that you can do songs and they just grow and grow and grow,” he said. “Cause when No Lie first came out that was a dope song. Nuff people loved it. It went on a lot of likkle streaming vibes and it just kept going. So awesome!” he stated.
Other Sean Paul hits to surpass a billion views as a featured artist include Clean Bandit’s Rockabye (2016), which is currently at 2.7 billion views, and Sia’s Cheap Thrills (2017), which sat at 1.7 billion views for most of the year. His other top dancehall tracks on Spotify this year include Temperature at No. 3, Go Down Deh with Spice and Shaggy at No. 6 and Get Busy at No. 8.
Burna Boy’s global smash hits are classified by Spotify as dancehall and he has 4 songs in the top ten on #SpotifyWrapped2022.
Last Last which has surpassed 2 billion streams comes in at No. 2, Location with Dave at No. 5, For My Hand featuring Ed Sheeran at No. 7, and On The Low at No 10.
Burna Boy shows up as the second most streamed dancehall act behind Sean, followed by Shaggy, Stefflon Don, Shenseea, Popcaan, Damian Marley, Vybz Kartel, Spice and Koffee.
Top 10 Reggae & Dancehall Songs Globally on #Spotifywrapped2022
Bob Marley & The Wailers return as the top reggae act globally. Last year, the Wailers appeared separately as they did this year at No. 9. The legendary group also has six of the top ten most played reggae songs globally. Musical Youth is the new entry on this year’s list of reggae artist at No. 4. The group’s reggae classic “Pass The Dutchie” is the No.1 most streamed reggae song on Spotify for the year. The Mighty Diamonds cover his the U.K. charts this year after it got two placements in the Netflix TV series “Stranger Things” and the group’s Drummer Fredrick Waite died at age 55.
“Pass the Dutchie” also hit number 18 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs chart in the U.S.
This is the song’s first modern year end chart appearance after it reached No. 1 in the UK and No.10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 when it was first released 40 years ago. SInce then it has held the No. 1 position in five other countries, and has sold more than five million copies worldwide including a Gold certification in the U.K. in 1982.
The song appeared on the group’s debut studio album, The Youth of Today, which peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 and No. 24 on the UK chart.
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