Kabaka Pyramid Gets Modest Bump In Sales, Streams After Grammy Win
Despite winning the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album, Kabaka Pyramid‘s The Kalling is yet to debut on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart.
Despite winning the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album, Kabaka Pyramid‘s The Kalling is yet to debut on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart.
It’s been three years since a global pandemic restricted movement worldwide, along with many of the “little” things we took for granted – like concerts.
The Jamaican Best Reggae Album nominees for the 2023 staging of the Grammy Awards were out in full effect at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Reggae star Kabaka Pyramid has won the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album with his sophomore album The Kalling.
When the winner for Best Reggae Album is announced at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards next Sunday, February 5, it will be a tossup between five stellar Jamaican albums, which have all had varying success on the commercial front.
As far as litmus tests go, there are not many metrics more reliable at assessing how an artist is doing commercially than album sales and streams in the United States.
Reggae Music singer Kabaka Pyramid says he hopes this year’s Grammy Award nominations for Best Reggae Album inspire younger Jamaican artists to put out music with less negativity.
Countless artists spent the first two years of the decade waiting. They waited to return; they waited until their newly recorded music could greet live audiences.
Though only a week into the New Year, Jamaican artists are already seizing the moment with new music to get the ball rolling.
In 2022, some Jamaican Dancehall artists seemed to have had an epiphany that nudged them onto more reflective and introspective-sounding tracks.
Grammy Award winner Sean Paul has emerged as the Caribbean’s biggest Spotify earner for 2022, according to CertifiedStreams.com.
Kabaka Pyramid’s The Kalling, Koffee’s Gifted, Protoje’s Third Time’s The Charm, Sean Paul’s Scorcha and Shaggy’s Come Fly Wid Mi are the albums nominated in the Best Reggae Album category at the upcoming 65th Annual Grammy Awards, to be held in 2023.
The number of albums up for consideration in the Best Reggae Album category at the 2023 Grammy Awards took a drastic dip to a total of 67, down from 125 last year.
New albums by Dancehall artist Vybz Kartel and Reggae singer Kabaka Pyramid failed to debut on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart after their first sales tracking week.
With the eligibility period for the 65th Grammy Awards having ended on September 30, 2022, here are DancehallMag‘s predictions on who could emerge among the 2023 nominees for ‘Best Reggae Album,’ which will be announced on Tuesday, November 15, 2022.
The summer came and brought with it a sea of songs vying for the summer song title.
It’s a Rastafarian link-up on The Kalling, the Damian ‘Jr Gong’ Marley-produced title track on Kabaka Pyramid’s forthcoming studio album, due out on September 30.
In a birthday celebration fit for a King, Beenie Man enjoyed his 50th milestone with family, friends, and heavy-hitters of the Jamaican music industry last night (Aug.
“Bro a summer now man fi a find tune fi di gal dem fi go tour di world, or my type a tune dem yuh know?
Skip Marley, his uncle Ziggy and their compatriot Kabaka Pyramid will be joining Medication singer Stephen Marley for four of the 19 rescheduled shows on the singer’s Babylon by Bus tour, which is set to commence on May 26 in the United States.