Dancehall artist Skeng is finally dropping his ‘Beast Of The Era’ EP. on Friday November 4 following the success of his ‘Likkle Miss remix’ with Nicki Minaj, and the genre-defining follow-up ‘The Fine Nine Remix’. Both songs climbed to the top 5 of the US iTunes chart and No. 1 on the US iTunes Hip Hop chart. Skeng who burst on the scene only last July has dominated the streams in Jamaica. His two songs Protocol with Tommy Lee and Gvnman Shift are the No. 1 and No. 2 most streamed songs on YouTube In Jamaica of all time.
The six track project ‘Beast Of The Era’ features all new music produced by John Coop, Di Truth, Droptop Records with Rvssian producing two songs. The track ‘Its True’ features Interscope artist Shenseea and Skeng’s DJ Jiggy D is featured in the song Eediattt ‘Idiot’ Jigsta.
The 6-track EP is executively produced by 21 year old Skeng on his label, RG Music (Ratty Gang Music). He says about working with the producers on the project, “Working with the mandem (at) my age is important for the sound and vibe I want. We ago grow and set tings differently in dancehall.”
All 6 songs will be accompanied by music videos to be released in November.
Earlier this year after dropping his Nicki Minaj collab Likkle Miss Remix, Skeng peaked at No. 175 on the global digital artist ranking list.
The Protocol artist is the only Jamaican to make the list of 200 artists ranked based on points from digital streams this year. He earned most of his song streams from the singles Talibhan, Gvnman Shift, Protocol and Likkle Miss from 27 Caribbean small island countries and via Apple Music; Skeng scored a total of 190 points total at his peak.
Sean Paul previously ranked at No. 20 on the Global Digital Artist in 2017. The chart is measured by an artist’s presence on iTunes and streaming charts around the world.
Skeng’s top song Protocol peaked at No. 1 on The World Music Views YouTube Charts and spent 27 weeks on the YouTube weekly chart. In Jamaica alone the TrueEyez directed music video has so far racked up 13,765,028 streams on YouTube.
Cumulatively the music video has 42 million views.
Record companies and chart compilers are increasingly adopting digital song sales to reliably reflect the popularity of an artist’s music in the streaming world. It has also become more common to use streaming data to calculate Gold and Platinum awards certifications around the world according to IFPI’s Global Music Report.
See Skeng’s BEAST OF THE ERA’ Tracklist below:
1. Demons Awake – produced by Ditruth
2. New Era – produced by John Coop
3. It’s True X Shenseea – produced by Rvssian
4. Highway – produced by John Coop
5. Eediattt ‘Idiot’ Jigsta -produced by Droptop Records
6. Thug Life – produced by Rvssian
