Shenseea Already Working On Second Album: “Something Completely Different”

Almost two months after Jamaican star Shenseea released her debut album, Alpha, she’s already working on her second.

The Blessed singer, 25, who recently inked a global publishing agreement with West Hollywood-based S10 Publishing, in partnership with Avex USA, has said she had no regrets about the trajectory of her career.

“I’m very happy with where I am because I feel like I’ve been getting a lot of recognition from international acts, producers…I’m working on my second album, and knowing that I’ve given my first album Alpha to the culture—I had to give back to my culture. The second one is something completely different,” she told Brandon Gomez during an interview for his weekly online show.

“You normally know me from doing Reggae and Dancehall, core Reggae and Dancehall, and now I’m trying to get the world to tun up to my tracks, so they can understand it even more. So, it’s like a whole different ballgame that I’m going into right now that I’ve been looking forward to my whole life,” she added.

She noted that her contentment and happiness have been enough to cancel out the criticisms she has been facing for experimenting with international genres.

“I love the fact that they love me, you feel me. But, at the end of the day, I’ve been giving myself to so much of my culture, which I’m supposed to be doing. But now, I want to do something for me. So, it’s anybody that sees me and be like, yo I wanna support her. That’s fine. But, who don’t wanna, it’s fine. Overall, I’m set out to do something that I need to get done because I’m living with myself. So if I don’t do this, trust me, everybody else will be happy except me. And I don’t want that,” she said.

Alpha debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Reggae Charts after it sold 4,900 units from sales and streaming in the United States during the week following its release on March 11, 2022.

The album has spent six weeks on the Billboard chart—second (among recently released Jamaican projects) to Masicka’s 438, which spent seven weeks on the chart.  Alpha had sold over 13,000 album-equivalent units up to its sixth week, according to data provided to DancehallMag.

“I’ve seen so many artists that are uncomfortable with their life to the amount of success they have because they’re not pleased with themselves. I’m never gonna let that be me. Like, I think that I can be happy doing the music that I love while making other people happy and making myself happy,” she continued.

“Why should I sacrifice my happiness for other people? No. I don’t encourage anybody to do that.”