{"id":3601,"date":"2022-06-09T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T13:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2022-06-09T13:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T13:25:38","slug":"sean-pauls-scorcha-album-gets-lukewarm-first-week-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3601","title":{"rendered":"Sean Paul\u2019s \u2018Scorcha\u2019 Album Gets Lukewarm First-Week Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean Paul<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0\u2018Scorcha<\/em>\u2019<\/strong> has opened on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart at No. 6, while Shaggy\u2019s Sinatra tribute\u00a0Come Fly Wid Mi<\/em><\/a>\u00a0did not make the Top 10\u2014after both albums received some paltry first-week numbers.<\/p>\n

Released on May 27, Paul\u2019s\u00a0\u2018<\/strong>Scorcha\u2019<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>is the multi-platinum Dancehall superstar\u2019s eighth studio album, and his first full-length project on the iconic Island Records, with which he signed a multi-album deal in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u2018Scorcha\u2019<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>has sold\u00a01,700<\/strong>\u00a0equivalent album units from sales and streaming in the United States during its first week of release, according to data provided to\u00a0DancehallMag<\/strong>\u00a0from sales tracker Luminate (formerly MRC Data).\u00a0 This includes\u00a0600<\/strong>\u00a0copies in album sales and 1,400,000 in on-demand audio and video streaming recorded during its first week.<\/p>\n

Shaggy<\/a>\u2018s Sting-produced\u00a0\u2018Come Fly Wid Mi\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which was released on May 25, has sold\u00a0358<\/strong>\u00a0copies, according to Luminate, which said there was no streaming data to report for the album.<\/p>\n

Globally, Sean Paul has been YouTube and Spotify\u2019s most-streamed Jamaican Dancehall artist for the last two years running.\u00a0\u00a0\u2018Scorcha\u2019<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>is his tenth entry on the Billboard Reggae chart and notably, one of three of his albums currently in the Top 10 listing dated June 11.<\/p>\n

However, while his older material continues to set the bar for Jamaican artists, the streams and sales on Paul\u2019s recent releases have been less robust than the totals for recent albums by\u00a0Shenseea<\/a>,\u00a0Popcaan<\/a>, and\u00a0Koffee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His seventh album\u00a0Live N Livin<\/em><\/a>\u00a0peaked at No. 9 on the chart with 1,000 units sold during its first week of release in March 2021.\u00a0 His sixth album,\u00a0\u2018Full Frequency\u2019<\/strong><\/em>, <\/strong>debuted at No. 1 with 2,160 units in 2014, according to the Jamaica Observer.<\/p>\n

Paul\u2019s Grammy Award-winning and 2X Platinum\u00a0\u2018Dutty Rock\u2019<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>was No. 1 with 65,000 first-week units in 2002.\u00a0\u00a0His third album,\u00a0The Trinity,\u00a0<\/em>had debuted at No. 1 with 107,000 units, and was later certified Platinum in the US for sales exceeding 1 million units.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, no new album from a Jamaican artist has had over 5,000 units sold in the US in a single week since Popcaan\u2019s\u00a0FIXTAPE\u00a0<\/em>(8,800 units) debuted on the chart at No. 2 in 2020.\u00a0 In the last two years, only five albums have crossed 2,000 units sold in one week, namely Buju Banton\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Upside Down\u2019<\/em><\/strong> 2020<\/em>\u00a0(2,995 units),\u00a0Alkaline\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Top Prize\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2,957 units<\/a>),\u00a0Masicka\u2019s\u00a0\u2018438\u2019<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(2,864 units<\/a>),\u00a0Shenseea\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Alpha\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(4,900 units<\/a>) and\u00a0Koffee\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Gifted\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(3,500 units<\/a>).<\/p>\n

On the Billboard Reggae Albums chart, Bob Marley & The Wailers\u2019\u00a0Legend<\/em>, first released in May 1984, remains at No. 1 for 126 consecutive weeks.\u00a0 It routinely sells over 11,000 units in the United States each week, which is often as much as the other 9 entries on the weekly chart combined.\u00a0\u00a0\u2018Legend\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is also currently at No. 53 on the Billboard 200, where it boasts the second-longest run in the history of that chart (733 weeks), after Pink Floyd\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Dark Side of the Moon\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shaggy\u2019s\u00a0Best of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection<\/em>\u00a0is at No. 2 on the Billboard Reggae chart this week, followed by Stick Figure\u2019s\u00a0World On Fire\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Set In Stone\u00a0<\/em>at No. 3 and 5, and UB40\u2019s\u00a0Greatest Hits\u00a0<\/em>at No. 4.<\/p>\n

Sean Paul\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Dutty Classics Collection\u2019<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>is at No. 7, while\u00a0\u2018Dutty Rock\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is at No. 9.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn Reggae band The Frightnrs\u2019 sophomore album\u00a0\u2018Always\u2019<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0has debuted at No. 8, while Koffee\u2019s \u2018Gifted\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is on the chart for its tenth week at No. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sean Paul\u2018s\u00a0\u2018Scorcha\u2019 has opened on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart at No. 6, while Shaggy\u2019s Sinatra tribute\u00a0Come Fly Wid Mi\u00a0did not make the Top 10\u2014after both albums received some paltry first-week numbers. Released on May 27, Paul\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Scorcha\u2019\u00a0is the multi-platinum Dancehall superstar\u2019s eighth studio album, and his first full-length project on the iconic Island Records, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-breakingnews"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}