Koffee Sets Record For Most Billboard Reggae Albums Artists Rankings This Century

Koffee has appeared on the Billboard Year-End Reggae Albums Artists chart in four of the past six years, the most of any female reggae artist this century. Her repeated success was driven by the global impact of her Grammy-winning EP Rapture (2019) and her debut album Gifted (2022). She ranked #8 in 2023, #6 in 2022, #8 in 2020, and #6 in 2019.

Joss Stone remains the only woman this century to finish a year as the top-selling female reggae artist on Billboard’s Reggae Albums Artists Chart, claiming the No. 1 position in 2015. She returned again in 2016, ranking at No. 5.

Although no female reggae artists appeared on the 2014 Billboard Year-End Reggae Albums Artists Chart, Jamaican singer Tessanne Chin achieved a major breakthrough that year. Her Republic Records album Count On My Love, categorized as pop, sold 7,000 units in its first week in the U.S. and became the only album by a Jamaican female artist this century to appear on the Billboard 200, where it debuted at No. 41. Despite containing two reggae tracks, it did not qualify for the year-end reggae rankings.

2025 – Sister Nancy (#9)
2024 – No female artist ranked
2023 – Koffee (#8)
2022 – Koffee (#6), Shenseea (#8)
2021 – No female artist ranked
2020 – Koffee (#8)
2019 – Koffee (#6)
2018 – No female artist ranked
2017 – No female artist ranked
2016 – Joss Stone (#5)
2015 – Joss Stone (#1), Carlene Davis (#10)
2014 – No female artist ranked
2013 – No female artist ranked
2012 – No female artist ranked
2011 – No female artist ranked
2010 – No female artist ranked
2009 – No female artist ranked
2008 – No female artist ranked
2007 – No female artist ranked
2006 – Sinéad O’Connor (#9)

Data for Billboard’s sales charts—including all album charts—are compiled by Luminate, which tracks sales from a universe of retailers representing more than 90% of the U.S. music retail market.

This includes:

• Traditional music stores

• Music departments of major electronics and department stores

• Direct-to-consumer sales

• Internet sales (physical and digital)

• A verified sample of sales from concert venues

All Billboard sales charts rely on the full Luminate panel.

Luminate collects its information using the same point-of-sale systems that retailers use to track inventory. In effect, an itemized receipt from a music store becomes a data point in Billboard’s chart calculations—your purchase literally counts as a vote.