Sean Paul Is the Highest-Selling Dancehall Artist in the U.S. for the Second Year in a Row

Sean Paul is the highest selling dancehall artist in the U.S. for the second year in a row.

The Grammy Award winning DJ ranks third overall on Billboard sales and streams driven Reggae Albums Artist Rankings for 2025, the same position as last year.

He also has the most albums on the Billboard Reggae Albums Year End Chart, Dutty Classics Collection at No. 5  and Dutty Rock ending the year at No. 8 overall.

Sean has also once again secured his title as the most-streamed dancehall artist on Spotify for another year. With a staggering 159 million listeners, 83.1 million hours streamed and 1.6 billion total streams across 184 countries, the No Lie superstar is miles ahead his closest competitors on streaming platforms.

Spotify announced that it pays rights holders between $3M-$5M on every billion streams.

The other dancehall acts making on Billboard’s Year-End Albums Artists Ranking this year are Shaggy at No. 4, Ini Kamoze at No. 8 and Sister Nancy, the only woman on the chart at No. 9.

Shaggy’s Best Of Shaggy: Boombastic Collection is the highest ranked dancehall set listed on the Billboard Year-End Reggae Albums Chart at No. 2.

Despite over a dozen releases, for 2025, the only dancehall albums that made entries on the Billboard weekly Reggae chart is Vybz Kartel’s Vybz Is King 10th Anniversary Deluxe edition in January and Sister Nancy’s 1982 release One Two in April.

Billboard‘s sales charts, which include all album charts are compiled by Luminate from retailers that represents more than 90% of the U.S. music retail market.

The sample includes not only music stores and the music departments at electronics and department stores, but also direct-to-consumer transactions and Internet sales (both physical albums via Internet, and ones bought via digital downloads). A limited array of verifiable sales from concert venues is also tabulated. All sales charts use the entire Luminate panel.

The Luminate system utilizes that same point-of-sale that music merchants use to track their inventory, so an itemized receipt from one’s last visit to a music retailer essentially doubles as a ballot cast for our charts.