Legend crowns Billboard’s Year-End Reggae Albums chart for 2025
Legend by Bob Marley & The Wailers is the top-selling reggae album in the United States for 2025.
Billboard magazine unveiled its 2025 Year-End Reggae Albums charts on Tuesday, and the multi-platinum selling Legend led the pack for a sixth year running.
The set is currently spending its 308th non-consecutive week at #1 on the weekly reggae chart.
The year-end chart features albums released between 1976 and 2022.
Best of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection by Shaggy, which rose as high as #2 on the weekly reggae chart, finishes 2025 at #2. Released in August 2008, the set has been certified gold in the United Kingdom.
Stick Figure’s World on Fire, a 2019 release, is ranked at #3, while UB40’s Greatest Hits, released in 2008, is #4.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI)-certified gold Dutty Classics Collection by Sean Paul is #5. The hits collection released in 2017 has only risen as far as #2 on the weekly chart.
Stick Figure has the #6 and #7 positions with Wisdom and Set in Stone. Released in September 2022 and November 2015, respectively, both albums had previously visited the #1 position.
Sean Paul’s Dutty Rock, a Grammy-winning album released in 2002, is #8. The album spent multiple weeks at #1 between 2002 and 2003. It has sold more than 6 million copies globally.
Bob Marley & the Wailers’ Exodus has been certified gold in the United States. Since the reggae albums chart came into existence in the 1990s, the album has peaked at #3. It ends 2025 at #9.
Damian Marley’s Grammy-winning Welcome to Jamrock album, which has been certified gold in the United States, Canada, and in the United Kingdom, topped the charts when it was released in 2005. It has visited the weekly chart on multiple occasions this year and finishes the year at #10.
The Trinity, a 2005 release by Sean Paul, has to date sold more than 4 million copies globally. It topped the chart 20 years ago and closes 2025 at #11.
Shaggy achieved global success in the year 2000 when the song It Wasn’t Me took off like a rocket. Its success helped to propel the album Hot Shot to diamond certification.
Hot Shot, which has only risen to #2 on the weekly reggae chart, ranks at #12 for the year.
In June 2018 Fiji The Artiste released Collection: 50th State of Mind. It wasn’t until his death earlier this year that the album made its entry onto the weekly chart, rising to a #3 watermark. It finishes the year at #13.
Bob Marley & the Wailers’ 1976 album Rastaman Vibration was released in April of that year and it soared to #8 on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart. It reached #4 in 2022 and ends 2025 at #14.
For the second year running, Here Comes the Hotstepper by Ini Kamoze, finishes the year at #10. The album has re-entered the weekly chart on numerous occasions and initially peaked at #1 for three weeks in 1995.
