News from the Reggae industry covering everything from the artists to their releases to what goes on at their live shows. There is always something interesting going on in the world of Reggae.
Reggae’s last presence in the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 dates back to 2014, when Caucasian American band MAGIC! spent six weeks in the number-one spot with their Rude single. The success of the record perhaps answered questions about Reggae’s relevance in the US market, however, staunch supporters of reggae music were still left a bit […]
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Intellectual property specialist David Stopps will be one of the special guest presenters at the International Reggae Day (IRD) Conference set for the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in St Andrew on July 1 2015. David Stopps is a consultant, artiste manager and music promoter and will be the main presenter at the event. There will be two
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It’s been seven years since Morgan Heritage last topped the charts with their album Mission in Progress and they have done it again. This time their latest album Strictly Roots, released on April 20, holds the number one spot. Strictly Roots marks the eighth time the group has been on that album chart. In 2001, More
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For six weeks last summer, the Number One song in America belonged to a group of Canadian reggae fans whose frontman sings plaintively to a girlfriend’s particularly impolite father who won’t approve his earnest marriage proposal to her. “Rude,” Magic!’s debut single, sold 3 million copies in the United States alone, despite many critics objecting
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It’s in the music baby! As soon as you hear Reggae music, you can’t help but rock out to it. Look at how passionate this toddler is about performing Crazy Baldheads by Bob Marley. Reggae music lives and reigns forever. #lovereggaemusic
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