Jah Cure’s ‘Undeniable’ First Week Album Sales Are In
Undeniable, the ninth studio album from incarcerated Reggae singer Jah Cure failed to debut on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart after its first sales tracking week.
Released on February 17 via VP Records, the 11-track set sold 200 units in sales and streaming equivalent units during its first week in the United States, according to data provided to DancehallMag from Billboard’s sales tracker Luminate.
This figure includes 100 copies in pure album sales.
The weekly sales and streaming-driven Billboard Reggae Albums chart ranks the ten most popular Reggae albums in the US based on consumption metrics measured in equivalent album units. Each of those units represents one album sale, ten individual tracks sold from an album, 3,750 ad-supported audio or video streams, or 1,250 paid/subscription streams from an album.
On the chart dated March 4, 2023, Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers continued its reign at No. 1 for the 163rd non-consecutive week.
Shaggy’s Best of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection is at No. 2 on the chart, while Sean Paul’s Dutty Classics Collection album is at No. 3.
Stick Figure’s Wisdom, World On Fire, and Set In Stone albums are at No. 4, 5, and 7, respectively, while UB40’s Greatest Hits album is at No. 6.
Popcaan’s Great Is He, which debuted at No. 3, has fallen to No. 8 in its fourth week on the chart.
Koffee’s Gifted, which was the best-selling Jamaican album to be released in 2022, has re-entered at No. 9 in its 42nd week on the chart.
Burna Boy’s Outside album is at No. 10.
Jah Cure’s Undeniable was produced by himself and Swedish producer Hamed “K-One” Pirouzpanah.
It featured stand-outs like the title track with Haitian-American songstress Kaylan Arnold, Think About It, which is Jah Cure’s personal favorite, and Everything, a collaboration with Afropop star Stonebwoy which received an official music video on YouTube, the same day of the album’s release. It has received 238,000 views, so far.
Jah Cure came to prominence after the release of his hit songs Longing For (2005), Love Is (2005), and True Reflection (Behind These Prison Walls) (2007). His 2015 album The Cure topped the Billboard Reggae Albums chart in its first week and copped a nomination for the Grammy Award’s Best Reggae Album in 2016.
He’s also known for hit songs such as Never Find, All Of Me, Unconditional Love, Before I Leave, Rasta, That Girl, Wake Up, and What Will It Take.
His previously released albums are Free Jah’s Cure The Album the Truth (2000), Ghetto Life (2003), Freedom Blues (2005), True Reflections…A New Beginning (2007), The Universal Cure (2009), World Cry (2013), The Cure (2015), and Royal Soldier (2019).
In March 2022, Cure, whose real name is Siccature Alcock, was convicted of attempted manslaughter and sentenced to six years in prison in the Netherlands after he stabbed a concert promoter over unpaid performance fees in October 2021. The trial judges had ruled that Jah Cure’s actions were not a deliberate act of attempted murder.
However, following the sentence, Dutch prosecutors appealed against the acquittal of the attempted murder charge. He was further remanded in January, pending a new trial.