Dancehall princess Shenseea is giving hints about what her sophomore album will contain. In an interview with YouTuber Nyla Simone, the Interscope artist candidly spoke on her upcoming album.
About the direction of the upcoming album vs her debut “Alpha,” Shenseea says, “Alpha was more fun because that was when I was stepping out of my confort zone and showing that I am bossy enough to do this. The second album I am about to show you that this is what I came here to do.”
Shenseea said fans will get a more emotional side of her as she enters uncharted territory.
“Its a lot of emotions because I have been good through a lot in the past two years, things that woman can relate to as usual, but in a different way, its a whole different vibe. I am so in love with the songs on my album you can’t tell me they are not good. Imma be singing this regardless.”
About the features on the album the Trick Or Treat artist says, “I ain’t got no features yet, yeah, I have something to prove, I am not really done with myself on the project, so I want to make sure everything is good before I bring other people to the table, you know I have a couple people in mind for one song, but I am not really looking for features on this album. You might I aint got lie but where I am now I have something to prove to myself.”
“You know I can get the features but its just something personal,” she continued.
Shenseea broke several records with her debut album Alpha which recently surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify. The Rich Immigrant/Interscope project is the fastes project by a dancehall artist to reach the milestone on the platform.
The 14 track set released March 11, 2022 featured music heavyweights Offset, Beenie Man, Tyga, Megan Thee Stallion and Sean Paul. The album was lead by the release of six singles including the Canadian certified Gold selling “Blessed” featuring Tyga. Alpha was the most streamed album by a dancehall artist in the US that was released in 2022.
The Interscope/Rich Immigrants set earned 60,000 equivalent album units (SEA,TEA) according data provided to World Music Views by Billboard sales tracker Luminate up to December 2022.
Of that sum, album sales comprise 1300, equaling 90 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 15 tracks including an Apple Music “Up Next Shenseea” outro
The data compiled by Luminate is based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units in the United States. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.
With 4,900 units total from sales and streaming in the United States in its first week of release, the collab heavy album opened at No. 2 on the Reggae Albumschart, and also debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart, which highlights and ranks the sales by new and developing musical recording artists each week.
In its second week Alpha slipped to No. 4 on the Reggae Albums chart, earning 2,600 units from sales and streaming in the United States, according to data provided to WMV by our sales tracker correspondents Luminate. The second-week total includes 100 additional copies in pure album sales, 700 in song sales, 2,967,000 in on-demand streaming and 382,100 in on-demand video streaming.
Jamaican dancehall star and her label Interscope Records as well as parent company Universal Music Group Recordings reached a settlement in the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Stephanie Sarley in a California Central District Court.
This was the second such settlement since the release of Alpha as previously her song “Lick” with Megan Thee Stallion became embroiled in a multi-million dollar lawsuit over the use of elements of Denise Belfon’s 1999 Soca song Work.
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