by Howard Campbell
SOUTH FLORIDA – Three months earlier than the discharge of a movie on his life, Bob Marley is using excessive. Legend, the 1984 compilation album of his hottest songs, is on a number of Billboard Journal charts.
The publication, in its annual year-end charts, reveals Legend topping the Reggae Albums desk for the fourth straight 12 months. It has been primary that chart for 201 non-consecutive weeks.
Legend additionally completed the 12 months at quantity 66 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, quantity 10 on Prime R&B Albums chart, quantity 24 on Catalog Albums, quantity 34 on Prime R&B/Hip-hop Albums, and quantity 34 on the Prime Album Gross sales chart.
Launched in 1984 by Island Data, three years after Marley’s dying, Legend has bought over 25 million copies worldwide. It accommodates songs that helped make the Jamaican Rastafarian a famous person, together with Stand up, Stand Up, and Stir it Up. Plus, No Girl No Cry, Fulfill my Soul, May You be Liked, Ready in Useless, Exodus, and One Love.
Final September, Legend turned solely the second album after Pink Floyd’s Darkish Aspect of The Moon, to spend 800 weeks within the Billboard 200 Albums chart.
Bob Marley: One Love is the title of the Paramount Footage film about his rise to world fame. Directed by American Reinaldo Marcus-Inexperienced, it stars British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley.
A few of its closing scenes, together with for the One Love Peace Live performance in April, 1978, have been filmed in Kingston final March. Bob Marley: One Love shall be launched in February, celebrated as Reggae Month in Jamaica.
Better of Shaggy: The Boombastic Assortment, is quantity two on the Reggae Albums chart for 2023. Dutty Classics Assortment by Sean Paul closed the 12 months in third.
