Stick Figure lands sixth Billboard-charting album with Free Flow Sessions
California reggae band Stick Figure scores its sixth title on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart, as its latest effort Free Flow Sessions opens at #2.
Released on November 14 via Ruffwood Records, the 12-track Free Flow Sessions features hard-hitting dub style reggae beats adorning six new never-before-heard tracks.
Most of the tracks have been remixed, extended, and re-imagined. They include Moon Palace, Walking in My Shoes, Forever, Sticky Situation, This is What We Came Here For, Land of the Midnight Sun, and Fools Gold.
The band’s first entry was 2009’s Smoke Stack, which reached #8. Its next four releases — 2012’s Burial Ground, 2015’s Set in Stone, 2019’s World On Fire, and 2022’s Wisdom — all reached #1.
Incidentally, World on Fire, Set in Stone, and Wisdom occupy positions on the latest Billboard Reggae Albums chart at #s 5, 7, and 8, respectively.
Bob Marley and the Wailers log 306 non-consecutive weeks in the #1 spot with Legend, while Best of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection dips to #3.
Sean Paul’s Dutty Classics Collection backtracks to #4, while Dutty Rock slips to #6.
Greatest Hits by UB40 at #7 and Exodus by Bob Marley and the Wailers complete the Top Ten.
Dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel arrives inside the top 10 of any Billboard singles chart for the first time, as PBT by Travis Scott, which also features Tyla, glides from #8 to #7 on the Rhythmic Airplay Top 40.
Meanwhile, You Remind Me by DJ Khaled featuring Vybz Kartel, Buju Banton, Bounty Killer, Mavado, RoryStoneLove, and Kaylan Arnold tumbles from #29 to #37 in its seventh week.
On the US Afrobeats Songs chart, Shake it to the Max (Fly) remix by Moliy, Silent Addy, Skillibeng, and Shenseea is removed from the #1 spot by Tyla’s Chanel.
Getting Paid by Sarz, Asake, Wizkid, and Skillibeng crashes from #11 to #21, having peaked at #5.
Now moving to regional charts, Kenne Blessin’s cover of Elton John’s Nikita (Elton John’s version was released in 1985), spends a third week at #1 on the New York Reggae chart. Meanwhile,
To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before by Leroy Sibbles and Andrew Cassanova bolts from #7 to #5, and Be Your Friend (remix) by Ghost, Bounty Killer and Busy Signal steps up from #10 to #8.
The sole new entry comes in at #28, Painful Birth (A Mother’s Cry) by Aaron Silk.
Sherell Rosegreen’s cover of Cece Winans’ Come Jesus Come clocks a third week at the top of the South Florida Reggae chart, as All Over the World by Lila Ike and Protoje inches up to #10.
We Need Love by Johnny Osbourne and Tarrus Riley lifts from #14 to #12.
Your Grace and Mercy by George Nooks debuts at #22 and Fear No Evil by Papa Michigan steps in at #25.
Meanwhile, Ready or Not by Jurney Star continues to lead the Rebel Vibez Top Ten Canadian Reggae chart.
