{"id":1200389,"date":"2022-09-07T20:37:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/07\/shatta-wale-becomes-the-first-african-artiste-to-top-usa-apple-reggae-chart\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T20:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:37:32","slug":"shatta-wale-becomes-the-first-african-artiste-to-top-usa-apple-reggae-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/07\/shatta-wale-becomes-the-first-african-artiste-to-top-usa-apple-reggae-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatta Wale Becomes The First African Artiste To Top USA Apple Reggae Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FB_IMG_1662580180466.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"FB_IMG_1662580180466\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shatta Wale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>African dancehall trailblazer, Shatta Wale born Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr is once again in the news for attaining another milestone in his career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Shatta Movement honcho has become the first Ghanaian and African artiste\u00a0to top the United States of America iTunes chart for the Reggae category.<\/p>\n<p>The singjay and record producer\u2019s song tagged \u2018Property\u2019 released in 2020 bestowed on him the stride and bragging rights by surpassing Shaggy with his songs \u2018Angel\u2019 and \u2018It wasn\u2019t me\u2019, Bob Marley\u2019s Three Little Birds, Jimmy Cliff, and Wayne Wonder, among other popular artistes across the globe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26397 jetpack-lazy-image\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"  data-lazy- src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220907-192623.jpg\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26397\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1662583051_196_Screenshot_20220907-192623.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Recording Industry Association of America gold-certified Beyonce, Shatta Wale and Major Lazer\u2019s \u2018Already\u2019 song on August 8, 2022. This award has gone into history\u2019s books as Shatta Wale becomes the first Ghanaian to be internationally recognised and awarded by the RIAA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1344\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1344 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled td-animation-stack-type0-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1660039383_786_WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-09-at-6.53.34-AM-252x300.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>RIAA\u2019s Gold and Platinum Awards Program was created to honour artists and track sound recording sales. It has also become the benchmark defining success in the recorded music industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Already\u2019, The Lion King Album is categorised in the Afrobeat genre. The song, by American singer Beyonc\u00e9, Ghanaian singer Shatta Wale and American trio Major Lazer, is also featured in the 2020 movie Black is King.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, portions of the video were filmed in Ghana led by director Joshua Kissi. Locations in the Eastern Region and Greater Accra Region were used for the music video.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Already\u2019 won the 2022 Best Collaboration of the Year award at the 18th Urban  Awards and 6th annual AEAUSA. In 2020, the song won Best Collaboration at the 2020 BreakTudo Awards.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shatta Wale African dancehall trailblazer, Shatta Wale born Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr is once again in the news for attaining another milestone in his career. The Shatta Movement honcho has become the first Ghanaian and African artiste\u00a0to top the United States of America iTunes chart for the Reggae category. The singjay and record producer\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[461,5141,151,8304,14468,134,121,8170,886],"class_list":["post-1200389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-african","tag-apple","tag-artiste","tag-chart","tag-reggae","tag-shatta","tag-top","tag-usa","tag-wale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}