The first week sales numbers are in for Spice’s sophomore 9 track album Emancipated. According to data provided to World Music Views by Luminate (formerly Neilson/MRC), Spice’s Emancipated total album sold during the period was 700 album in the US in its first week and 1.1M streams. Based on current streaming conversations the total album consumption rounds off to 1500 units including streaming according to our Luminate data correspondent.
This, her first independent album was distributed by the Steve Stoute owned United Masters, and debuts at No. 2 in Jamaica on Apple Music, as well as placements in 19 other countries after a day of its release.
On iTunes the album peaked at No. 14 in all genres in the United States, No. 50 in Canada, No. 80 in the Bahamas and No. 94 in the U.K. The album also peaked at No. 1 on the Reggae iTunes album in the U.S.
About her new found freedom, Spice told Altpress.com that, “I was under VP Records for over 10 years, and there was a battle for me to get out. I’m finally emancipated..my fans have been journeying with me for over a decade. This is not just a project but something that is me — authentic dancehall music.”
Emancipated is projected to debut in the top ten on Billboard’s Reggae Albums Chart tomorrow, but it has since fallen off the Reggae iTunes chart. Her debut album 10 released by VP records sits at no. 24.
The Romping Shop artist released the uncut promo for the second single from the album “Tape Measure” which features a nude blackman and a white male model.
The objectifying teaser which shows spice using a tape measure to calculate the length of his penis elicited several memes including from Miami based body surgeon Dr. Miami who tweeted, “WhenSpicedrops a new video and your office phone starts ringing non-stop.”
Earlier this year Koffee’s debut album Gifted released under Colombia/RCA RecordsColombia/RCA recording debuted at number 2 on the Reggae Billboard charts with 3500 total units sold in the US in the first week. The album did 700 in total album sales and 3,290,800 streams.
Koffee
Gifted also clocked in at number 9 on the UK top 100 albums chart in her first week.
Shenseea’s Alpha’s also released earlier this year had a total consumption from sales and streaming in the United States was 4,900 units during its first week of release. This includes 800 copies in pure album sales.
The album’s total first-week consumption also included 2,000 copies in song sales, 4,616,400 in on-demand audio streams and 750,600 in on-demand video streams. These figures are rounded to the nearest 100, according to a Luminate representative.
These Streets Know My Name
Meanwhile, DJ’ Khaled’s dancehall song These Streets Know My Name featuring Skillibeng, Buju Banton, Capleton, Bounty Killer, and Sizzla from his album God Did sold 300 units and was streamed more that 3.2 million times in the US according to data provided to World Music Views by Luminate.
Dj Khaled, Bounty Killer, Sizzla
Khaled’s 13th studio album “God Did” debuts at no. 1 this week on the Billboard 200 chart after selling more than 107,000 units. This is Khaled’s fourth number 1 album. Representatives of Luminate told World Music Views that all data shared is as of September 1, 2022 which is the last day of tracking sales in the U.S.
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