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The album won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album. [12] The album was certified platinum in United States and gold in United Kingdom. It peaked at number 34 on the Billboard 200 and topped the Top Reggae Albums chart in the US, and reached number 37 on the UK Albums Chart. [13] [14] [15]
Its music video received a Latin Music Fan Award for Music Video of the Year and was nominated for a MTV2 Award at the 22nd MTV Video Music Awards and a MTV Video Music Awards Japan for Best Reggae Video. [98] [100] [101] "Lo Que Pasó, Pasó" won an Urban Song of the Year award at the 18th Lo Nuestro Awards. [102]
Sinéad O'Connor cover of "Downpressor Man" is closer to Peter Tosh recording made in 1977. But the song was previously recorded three other times by Peter Tosh with The Wailers: "Sinner Man" (1966, produced by Coxsone Dodd ), "Downpresser" (1971, produced by Lee Perry) and "Oppressor Man" (1972, produced by Peter Tosh).
Legend is a compilation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers.It was released on 7 May 1984 by Island Records. [2] It is a greatest hits collection of singles in its original vinyl format and is the best-selling reggae album of all time, with more than 18 million copies sold in the US, more than 3.3 million in the UK (where it is the 17th-best-selling album [3]) and an estimated 25 million ...
"Israelites" is a song written by Desmond Dekker and Leslie Kong for their group, Desmond Dekker & the Aces, [2] which reached the top of the charts in numerous countries in 1969. Sung in Jamaican Patois, some of the song's lyrics were not readily understood by many British and American listeners at the time of its rel
It also peaked at number five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album debuted atop the Billboard Reggae Albums chart and at number 5 on US Billboard 200, selling over 107,000 copies in its first week, the highest ever reggae/Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae artist in SoundScan ...
Eighteen different songs have reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2024. Kendrick Lamar has three hits on the list, the most of any artist. "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by Shaboozey had the longest ...
In 2008, for the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100, Billboard magazine compiled a ranking of the 100 best-performing songs on the chart over the 50 years, along with the best-performing artists. [1] In 2013, Billboard revised the rankings for the chart's 55th anniversary edition. [2] In 2015, Billboard revised the rankings again. [3]