Masicka’s album beats out Bob Marley on Reggae chart

‘Generation of Kings’ the new album from dancehall artiste Masicka, which was recently released, debuted in the top spot on the Top 100 Reggae Albums iTunes Chart.

Masicka

The 17-track album pushed ‘Legend’ by Bob Marley and The Wailers album to number two on the chart, claiming the number one spot.

The album also debuted at number one on Apple Music in 13 Caribbean countries including Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, and Turks and Caicos.

It is also the first time in history that an artiste charted 17 songs in the top 20 on Apple Music Jamaica chart, a record previously held by dancehall newcomer Valiant who charted 5 songs.

‘Generation of Kings’ was released through the US record label Def Jams Recordings, and features Jamaican artistes such as Popcaan, Dexta Daps, Spice, Chronic Law, and Lila Iké.

Bob Marley

Masicka also featured Afrobeats singer Fave and Haitian-American singer Fridayy on the album.

Producers on the album include Masicka as well as, Boi-1da, Atto Wallance, Moz ‘Mozeeko’ Hamm, and Donald ‘Razzy’ Chen, Mario ‘Dunw3ll’.