SINGER Sade, the former Ocho Rios resident, has topped the online jazz charts with her single Soldier of Love, one day after its release.

The song topped MySpace’s jazz charts with over 55,000 plays a day after its January 12 release. The video is the title single of her upcoming album to be released on February 8.

Up to noon on Saturday, the growth in plays slowed and totalled 68,580. MySpace is a popular social networking site, and although the plays don’t number in the millions, the chart comparatively shows that interest in the Nigerian-born songstress remains.

Soldier of Love (Epic Records) will be her first studio album since 2000’s Lovers Rock but she also released a live album in 2002. All seven of Sade’s albums have peaked in the Top 10 on the Billboard Top 200. Since the release of her debut album, Diamond Life in 1984 her worldwide sales have surpassed 50 million albums. Soldier of Love was recorded in England and produced by her band and long-time collaborator Mike Pela.

The album has ten tracks including: The Moon And The Sky, Soldier Of Love, Morning Bird, Baby Father, Long Hard Road, Be That Easy, Bring Me Home, In Another Time, Skin, and The Safest Place.

In the 90s, Sade lived in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, where she lived with a Jamaican producer but fled the island after she failed to appear in court to face charges on dangerous driving.