Prince Fatty makes a comeback
A year after peaking at number three, American reggae band Stick Figure and famed dub producer Prince Fatty re-enter the Billboard Reggae Albums chart. The effort, Fire and Stone: Prince Fatty Presents Stick Figure, currently occupies the number three position.
The set moved an additional 705 copies in pure album sales and re-enters the sales-driven US Current Reggae Albums chart at number one.
Fire and Stone sees Stick Figure led by Scott Woodruff, working alongside Prince Fatty who remixed songs from the band’s two most recent full-length titles, Set in Stone and the long-running
World on Fire. This is Stick Figure’s sixth charting title on the Billboard reggae table.
Its previous were Smoke Stack (eight in 2009), Burial Ground (one in 2012), Set in Stone (one in 2015), Set in Stone: Instrumental (seven in 2016), and World on Fire (one in 2019).
Elsewhere on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart, Bob Marley and the Wailers clock 123 weeks at number one with Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers, while Shaggy remains at number two with Best of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection.
UB40 slips to four with Greatest Hits, Dutty Classics Collection by Sean Paul is firm at five, while Koffee inches up to six with Gifted.
World on Fire by Stick Figure backtracks from four to seven, Sean Paul’s Dutty Rock holds at eight, while Shenseea’s Alpha stays put at nine. Sean Paul closes out the chart at 10 with Mad Love: The Prequel.
On regional charts, Cornerstone by The Marley Brothers spends a second week at the top of the Foundation Radio Network (New York) Reggae chart.
On the South Florida Reggae chart, Tik Tok I’m Coming by Hezron is number one for a second week.
CHART FLASHBACK
This week we flashback to the year 2011 and sift through the Billboard Reggae Albums chart dated May 21. The
number one album 11 years ago this week was Distant Relatives by Nas and Damian Marley.
Live Forever: September 23, 1980: Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA by Bob Marley and the Wailers was at two, while Great Expectation by the Jolly Boys featuring Albert Minott was six.
Return of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry Dub
Plate Mixes and Rarities by Lee Perry and the Upsetters was eight, while Reggae
Gold 2010 was nine. Time Bomb by American reggae band Iration was 10.