The Original Fireman Anthony B has deemed Billboard’s announcement—that it will launch its first-ever US chart for Afrobeats Songs—a “wake-up call” for Reggae and Dancehall, which had its Digital Song Sales chart discontinued by the magazine two years ago.
The King of Melodies Sizzla Kalonji is gearing up to release another album, this time, he says, dedicated fully to the 54 countries which make up the African continent and titled Africa 54.
The seven-star general entertainer and self-proclaimed Maroon chief Horus ‘L.A’ Lewis says he has filed assault charges against Entertainment and Culture Minister Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange in relation to an incident at a public event for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Trench Town on Tuesday.
Dancehall artist Popcaan is known to be quite a character that Unruly fans can’t seem to get enough of.
Karen Mason, a well-known Jamaican music industry executive who signed several Reggae and Dancehall artists to Elektra Records in the 1990s, has died.
Chris Brown and his label Sony Music Entertainment responded to the US$1.5 million copyright infringement lawsuit which was filed against them by the UK-based Greensleeves Publishing Ltd in a New York District Court last year.
“Chap music”. This is the name Dancehall artist Tu Lox, of Twin of Twins, says is the most suitable, official name that should be designated onto Jamaican Trap music, a sub-genre which is centered on violent and hedonistic criminal lifestyles such as scamming and witchcraft.
Sean Paul is fixing to heat up the summer of 2022 with his eighth, full-length album Scorcha, which was delayed but now has a confirmed release date for May 27, 2022.
Spice was the celebrity guest on last night’s episode of MTV’s Wild N’ Out as the captain of the ‘New School’ team.
There have been mixed reactions to an encounter between L.A. Lewis and Jamaican Entertainment Minister Olivia “Babsy” Grange, in which she interrupted an interview that reporters were conducting with the entertainer, and instructed a security officer to remove him from what has been described as a reserved area.
On the day that Beenie Man made international headlines for Jamaicans were not enthusiastic about Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton’s visit, his Trench Town compatriots appear to have proven him wrong.
Beenie Man’s ability to maintain his relevance in Dancehall after four decades came up for discussion recently, after it was spurred by attorney-at-law and broadcast journalist Emily Shields, who is a huge supporter of Reggae and Dancehall.
Two years after Billboard discontinued its Reggae Digital Song Sales chart, the magazine announced yesterday that it has joined forces with the music festival and global Afrobeats brand Afro Nation to launch the first-ever US chart for Afrobeats Songs.
The ‘Shop Buju Banton’ fashion line will debut a new collection at a brunch and fashion show in Miami next month.
Koffee released another new single Shine yesterday (Tuesday, March 22) that will appear on her forthcoming debut album Gifted, due out this Friday.
Before Ryan McFarlane honed his craft at Bull Bay’s EastSyde Records, the fast-rising recording artist, known professionally as Rytikal, earned an income as a construction worker, who juggled raising goats, cannabis farming, selling jelly coconuts in Downtown Kingston, and picking coffee in the mountains for a living.
Although it has been long recognized as an international art form, reggae music still struggles to gain a great foothold in Malaysia.
Skeng and Stalk Ashley pull off a wicked ruse in their latest single Talibhan. In the Aka Ruppi-directed video, shot between Beverly Hills and the “Killer Land” of Spanish Town in Kingston, Jamaica, the two entertainers take audiences through a hit on Ashley’s “ediat” man.
Dancehall entertainer Silk Boss and his girlfriend, now manager Brii have provided more details surrounding their leaked sex tape, the damming voice note, and their recent falling out with ex-manager and YouTuber Terro Don.
Whenever dancehall artist AMbiance does a live performance of his popular song, ‘Cry’, reluctant tears sting his eyes and he is forced to push back waves of repressed emotion triggered by grief over the loss of loved ones.