Stephen Marley‘s ‘Revelation Part 1: The Root Of Life’ has surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify. The album released May 24, 2011 by Universal/Tuff Gong Records debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart after selling 5000 units its first week to dethrone ‘Distant Relatives’ by Damian Marley and Nas from the top spot. It went on to spend 4 week at the top and a total of 78 weeks on the chart.
‘Revelation Part 1: The Root Of Life’ also debut at No. 92 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart wherein spent one week and No 20 on the R&B/Hip Hop albums chart where is spent six weeks.
The track album was lead by the singles Jah Army with Damian Marley and Buju Banton, ‘Tight Ship’ with Damian, ‘No Cigarette Smoking’ featuring Melanie Fiona,
Other featured artists include Ziggy Marley, Capleton, Wale, The Cast Of Fela, Spragga Benz and Melanie Fiona took home the Grammy award for Best Reggae Album at the 54 annual Grammys in 2012.
The 51 year old singer and producer has surpassed 700 million streams on Spotify across all credits in his catalogue, with ‘Medication’ with Damian Marley and ‘Options‘ with Pitbull being his top songs on the platform.
Last year Stephen told The Guardian newspaper that he is focused on making music that will be streamed when asked which song he streams the most.
“I don’t really do a lot of streaming. I’m too busy making the music that’s going to be streamed, so I live in the studio!” he said.
He added that there is one song that he cannot listen to due to its sentimental value.
“I Know by Bob Marley and the Wailers. That was one of the last songs that he sung on. It’s a song about when the race gets hard to run and you just can’t take the pace. I get very emotional when I listen to that one, so I skip it,” Marley explained.
The latest album from Stephen is “Old Soul,” his first solo effort in 7 years which WMV gives a four star rating shot to No. 1 on the U.S. Reggae iTunes chart.
The album is expected to debuted at No. 1 next week on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart. So far Stephen released the singles “Cool As The Breeze“, the title track “Old Soul” co-written by Omi, ” and “Winding Roads, with “Bob Weir from the Grateful Dead and singer/songwriter Jack Johnson.
The recording of “Winding Roads” took place at Weir’s TRI Studios, featuring his Wolf Bros band, including Don Was and members from Dead & Company, Jeff Chimenti, and Jay Lane.
