Sean Paul’s third studio album, “The Trinity,” has clinched Double Platinum standing in america, as confirmed by the Recording Business Affiliation of America (RIAA).
The album attained the spectacular milestone of two million items bought by way of a mixture of gross sales and streaming on Thursday, March 28.
This newest feat provides to the accolades of the 18-track album, which initially achieved Platinum standing a mere 5 months after its debut in September 2005. It follows the success of Paul’s earlier platinum-selling album, “Dutty Rock,” which presently boasts a Triple Platinum certification within the US.
File-breaking album
Recorded fully in Jamaica, “The Trinity” noticed Sean Paul collaborating with native producers resembling Steven “Lenky” Marsden, Donovan “Don Corleon” Bennett, Renaissance Crew, and Rohan “Jah Snowcone” Fuller. Explaining the album’s title, Sean Paul identified that it’s his third album, and has spent three years in manufacturing, being “all achieved proper right here within the Third World.”
The album was preceded by the one “We Be Burnin’,” which peaked at quantity two on the UK Singles Chart. It additionally peaked at quantity 5 on the U.S. Billboard Scorching 100 and seventeen on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-hop charts.
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The album debuted atop the Billboard Reggae Albums chart and at quantity 5 on US Billboard 200, promoting over 107,000 copies in its first week, the highest-ever reggae/Dancehall debut and single-week gross sales for a reggae artist in SoundScan historical past.
The album was nominated for Finest Reggae Album on the forty eighth Annual Grammy Awards. Damian Marley’s Welcome to Jamrock album received that yr.
The Trinity was licensed platinum in Europe by RIAA in 2006. The album went on to promote 4 million copies worldwide.
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Within the UK, Atlantic Information launched an expanded two-CD version of The Trinity in 2006. It contained all the unique 18 tracks on the primary disc and contained six additional tracks on the second disc together with the singles “Cry Child Cry” with Carlos Santana and Joss Stone together with “Break It Off” that includes Rihanna.
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