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Reggae legend Bob Marley remains at No. 1 on the sales and streaming-driven Billboard Reggae Albums chart this week, while American roots Reggae and dub band Iya Terra have debuted No.
Clockwork producer Usain Bolt has concerns about corporate entities exploiting the image rights of athletes who competed at the Olympic Games.
Sizzla has rebuked Reggae artists, who have declared themselves Rastafarians, yet have never visited any Rastafarian tabernacle in their lives, have no clue about Rastafarian religious rites, and are even failing to observe Haile Selassie’s birthday in the prescribed manner.
Well-known musician Nigel Staff of the Ruff Kutt band recently suffered a stroke while at his home on Friday.
Dancehall star Shenseea is riding high off the success of her latest single Run Run, which topped YouTube trending in Jamaica and is a favourite of the world’s fastest woman, Elaine Thompson-Herah.
In the aftermath of the official release of Spice’s 10 album, Dancehall megastar Shaggy, has predicted that some of the songs on the 15-track production for which he served as executive Producer, were going to be classics.
It seems as if Bounty Killer will not stop jeering Alkaline about the performance and quality of his Top Prize album any time soon.
Dancehall superstar Popcaan has indicated that he is now working on his fifth studio album. On Sunday, the Unruly Boss posted several photos, among them one of himself getting his hair braided, his eyes shut, and a spliff in one of his hands.
Two people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting at a party in Brooklyn, where Dancehall artist Shaneil Muir had performed over the weekend.
Thirty-three years after Major Mackerel released his monster hit Dutty Bungle, effectively embedding the term in the Jamaican lexicon, A’mari DJ Mona Lisa might just be following in his footsteps with the release of her infectious, though bizarre single, (Rise) Dutty Bungle.
People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding, joined the thousands of Jamaicans who are trying to master dancer Tyreek Pennicott’s Dirt Bounce, the dance the Jamaican women’s 4×100 metres relay team did upon being introduced, prior to their spectacular win at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Controversy continues to plague Dancehall artist Intence’s recent trip to the Cayman Islands for a performance, even weeks after he left the British overseas territory.
Bounty Killer has ended the speculation surrounding the release time for his upcoming King of Kingston album.
Dancehall veteran Lieutenant Stitchie is among four members of Jamaica’s music industry who will be bestowed with national honours on National Heroes Day in October.
Italian Reggae artist Alborosie took on ZJ Sparks and some of her Instagram followers after spotting a news item published in The Times which was shared by her, regarding 100-metre Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, which he regarded as undesirable.
While most Jamaicans reveled in the excitement that came with celebrating the island’s Independence on August 6, which also coincided with ongoing celebrations for the island’s Track and Field dominance in the ongoing 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Grammy award-winning Reggae artist and icon, Mark Myrie, more popularly known as Buju Banton, was not in as festive a mood.
Despite getting stuck in Costa Rica two days ago and having to cancel her album launch party, the Queen of Dancehall and Love And Hip Hop: Atlanta star Spice’s new album 10 came out with a bang yesterday as she also celebrated her birthday.
Popcaan has earned his fifth BRIT Certified silver award. The Dancehall star received the silver certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) today (August 6) for Kisses For Breakfast, a 2014 collab with British singer Melissa Steel.
Rapture, the title track off Koffee’s Grammy Award-winning EP, is now BRIT Certified silver in the United Kingdom for sales of over 200,000 copies.
On the heels of Sean Paul’s musings that the world is yearning for a revival of authentic Dancehall sounds, Bounty Killer is urging Jamaican artists to go fully Dancehall in their upcoming bodies of work, as the genre is on the cusp of a global explosion.