Dancehall artiste Teejay has scored his first Billboard entry together with his summer season hit Drift.
Drift debuted at quantity 47 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart for October seventh. Teejay joins Jamican-born dancehall artiste Byron Messia as the one dancehall artistes with an entry on the chart.
The dancehall hit Talibans by Messia strikes as much as quantity 22 in its fifteenth week on the chart.
In June, Teejay signed a publishing take care of Warner Chappell Publishing after which a document take care of Warner Music in the US, which he credited to the success of Drift. The music, launched in March through Panda/DJ Mac/Prime Braff Music, has obtained heavy airplay on Jamaican and abroad radios and went viral on Instagram and TikTok.
Stable Company, which manages Teejay, mentioned the artiste’s Warner signing was “dancehall’s greatest deal for the yr.” Nonetheless, particulars of the deal weren’t offered within the launch.
“Me really feel good. A music we a duh from very long time, and me laborious work is lastly paying off. Dis a simply the beginning,” Teejay mentioned in a launch by the company.
Whereas sharing the information in a put up on Instagram, the Uptop Boss captioned the pictures: “Rattling look what drift did.”
Co-chair and CEO of Warner Chappell Music, Man Moot, mentioned he’s pleased to see dancehall music and one other Jamaican artiste on this context and on the worldwide rise.
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“It’s the appropriate artiste with the appropriate music and the appropriate time,” he mentioned.
Drift has gone viral on TikTok with over 20 million views on songstats and myriad dance challenges, the discharge mentioned. The music, which was written and recorded in a single hour, has additionally reportedly blown up internationally, with the largest numbers in London, New York, and Atlanta.
