The legendary Marley household has one more Billboard Sizzling 100-charting hitmaker in its lineage, as YG Marley debuts for the primary time (on the Feb. 10 -dated tally) with “Reward Jah within the Moonlight.”
The music, which Marley self-released Dec. 27, debuts at No. 74 with 6.2 million official U.S. streams – up 59%, because it continues weekly good points – within the Jan. 26-Feb. 1 monitoring week, in keeping with Luminate.
YG Marley (actual title: Joshua Marley) is the grandson of the late Bob Marley, and the son of Rohan Marley and Ms. Lauryn Hill – the latter of whom topped the Sizzling 100 with “Doo Wop (That Factor)” in 1998. YG is the sixth member of the Marley household to hit the Sizzling 100, after Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Ky-Mani Marley, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley and Skip Marley.
Right here’s a take a look at each music by a member of the Marley household (excluding Hill) to chart on the Sizzling 100, listed chronologically:
Title, Artist Billing, Peak Place, Yr:
“Roots, Rock, Reggae,” Bob Marley and The Wailers, No. 51 (1976)
“Tomorrow Folks,” Ziggy Marley and The Melody Makers, No. 39 (1988)
“Good Time,” Ziggy Marley and The Melody Makers, No. 85 (1991)
“Avenues,” Refugee Camp All Stars feat. Pras with Ky-Mani, No. 35 (1997)
“Gotta Be…Movin’ On Up,” Prince Be & Ky-Mani, No. 90 (1998)
“Welcome To Jamrock,” Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, No. 55 (2005)
“Chained to the Rhythm” Katy Perry feat. Skip Marley, No. 4 (2017)
“Bam,” Jay-Z feat. Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, No. 47 (2017)
“Reward Jah within the Moonlight,” YG Marley, No. 74 (2024)
Maybe surprisingly, Bob Marley, as famous above, charted just one music on the Sizzling 100 previous to his loss of life in 1981: “Roots, Rock, Reggae.” He does, nonetheless, maintain the report for probably the most No. 1s – 19 – within the 30-year historical past of Billboard’s Reggae Albums chart. Plus, his biggest hits LP Legend: The Better of Bob Marley and The Wailers has spent 820 weeks and relying on the Billboard 200 (at present rating at No. 57, after it reached No. 5 in 2014)—it’s the second-longest-charting album within the survey’s 58-year historical past, after Pink Floyd’s The Darkish Facet of the Moon (988 weeks, between 1973 and this January). His affect has resulted in lots of Sizzling 100 chart entries underneath a songwriter billing, although, because of covers, samples or interpolations of his songs, together with Eric Clapton’s “I Shot the Sheriff (No. 1, 1974), Warren G’s “I Shot the Sheriff” (No. 20, 1997), 50 Cent’s “Window Shopper” (No. 20, 2005) and Rihanna’s “Redemption Music” (No. 81, 2010).
“Reward Jah” accommodates a pattern of Bob Marley and The Wailers’ 1978 monitor “Disaster.” As such, Bob Marley is listed as a co-songwriter on the monitor (alongside YG and Hill). It marks his first look on the Sizzling 100 since his writing credit score on James Blunt’s “Keep the Evening” in 2011; that music interpolates Marley’s 1978 traditional “Is This Love.”
As for Hill, she has charted three songs on the Sizzling 100: “Doo-Wop (That Factor)” and two that peaked in 1999, “Ex-Issue” (No. 21) and “The whole lot Is The whole lot” (No. 35).
“Reward Jah” debuts forward of the theatrical launch of Bob Marley: One Love (Feb. 14), the Reinaldo Marcus Inexperienced-helmed biopic concerning the late icon. YG carried out the music at a number of of Hill’s tour stops final winter, serving to generate curiosity main as much as its official launch. The excitement bled over onto TikTok, the place the music has soundtracked over 150,000 clips up to now.
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