Dancehall deejay Skeng who just dropped his “Likkle Miss” (Remix) with Nicki Minaj’s on her Queen Radio: Volume 1 album popped up at No. 175 on the global digital artist ranking list.
The Protocol artist who has the top two most streamed songs in Jamaica is the only Jamaican on the list of 200 artists ranked based on points from digital streams. The artist who is yet to drop an album, earned most of his song streams including Talibhan, Gvnman Shift, Protocol and Likkle Miss come from 27 Caribbean small island countries and via Apple Music; Skeng scores 190 points total.
Sean Paul previously ranked at No. 20 on the Global Digital Artist in 2017.
Skeng broke the record for most streamed songs in Jamaica recently as Protocol and Gvnman Shift surpassed Koffee’s Lockdown as the most streamed songs in Jamaica.
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 37,203,185 views.
Record companies and chart compilers are increasingly adapting 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.
