Shenseea’s ‘Alpha’ Spends Second Week On Billboard Reggae Chart

Shenseea’s debut Alpha had one of the strongest chart showings among Jamaican albums in recent years, placing No. 2 on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart but falling way short of the top spot which has now been held by Reggae legend Bob Marley for over two years.

In its second week, Alpha has slid to No. 4 on the Reggae Albums chart, earning 2,600 more units from sales and streaming in the United States, according to data provided to DancehallMag, from Billboard’s sales tracker, 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.  (These figures are rounded to the nearest 100).

The second-week’s sales numbers bring Alpha’s total to 7,500 units, after it moved 4,900 units during its first week of release.

Released via Rich Immigrants/Interscope Records, the album had featured Megan Thee Stallion, Tyga, 21 Savage, Offset, Beenie Man, and Sean Paul, in addition to a slew of hit-making producers including Murda Beatz, London On Da Track, Rvssian, Dr. Luke and Supa Dups.

The weekly sales and streaming-driven Billboard Reggae Albums chart ranks the most popular Reggae albums in the US, based on consumption metrics that are measured in equivalent album units.  Each of those units represents one album sale or 10 individual tracks sold from an album or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscriptions streams from an album via audio or video streams.

Reggae legends Bob Marley & The Wailers are No. 1 on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart this week for the 116th consecutive week, with Legend— a greatest hits collection first released in May 1984 by Island Records.   The compilation matched its prior week’s total with 11,200 units from sales and streaming in the US last week, including 2,800 copies in pure album sales, according to data provided to DancehallMag by Luminate.

Shaggy’s Best of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection has returned to No. 2 on the Billboard chart after having moved 2,800 units last week.

Sean Paul’s Dutty Classics Collection (2,800 units), and Mad Love The Prequel (1,100 units) albums are at No. 3 and 9 respectively.

UB40’s Greatest Hits (1,600 units) compilation is at No. 5, followed by Stick Figure’s World On Fire (1,500 units) and Set In Stone (1,400 units) albums at No. 6 and 7, respectively.

The new entries on the chart this week are Rebellion’s Live At Red Rocks (1,400 units) at No. 9, and Bob Marley & The Wailers’ Gold album is at No. 10 with 700 units sold last week.

I-Octane’s I AM GREAT album, which was released on March 18, 2022, did not make the top 10 chart.