Best of Shaggy: Boombastic Collection Is the Highest-Selling Dancehall Album in the U.S. for Six Years in a Row

Despite several new dancehall releases dropping throughout the year, none of the recently released dancehall projects managed to secure a spot on Billboard’s Reggae Year-End Chart. Instead, it was the classics that carried the genre’s banner in the U.S. market.

According to Billboard/Nielsen Music data, Best of Shaggy: Boombastic Collection released in 2008 via Geffen Records, emerged as the strongest-performing dancehall album on the chart. It places second overall to Bob Marley’s Legend on the Year-End Chart and has been the top selling dancehall album for six consecutive years.

Dancehall and Reggae are two distinct genres of music from Jamaica however, Billboard include them in the reggae rankings. Compilation albums have benefited from Billboard’s rule change in 2020 that ensures that perennial favorites and “greatest hits” collections, which function as evergreen compilations, maintain top positions on the dedicated Reggae Albums chart, making it difficult for new albums to compete for the top spot. Older albums were previously made ineligible for the main Billboard 200 chart (between 1991 and 2009), but the rules were repealed, allowing them to re-enter and remain on charts indefinitely if they meet certain criteria.

Shaggy magnum opus studio album Hot Shot also made the chart this year for the first time at No. 12 overall and the 5th highest selling Dancehall album in 2025. It previously categorized as pop and made the Billboard 200 Year-End chart in 2001 at No. 2. It is the highest selling album by a Jamaica act of the 21st Century and the only one in history to chart No. 1 for six weeks on the Billboard 200 chart.