Global Reggae Charts - Issue #12 / April 2018

editorial
Welcome to a new edition of the Global Reggae Charts!
In this month’s installment of our Reggae Careers in the Internet Age series, we’ll cover the topic of
streaming services and the impact they have on the business of music. One aspect: the increasing
importance of the playlists on the big streaming platforms. Thus, it’s only fitting that we launched a
new Spotify playlist ourselves.
It is called ”New Reggae Releases” and the title is exactly what you get: all the new reggae and
dancehall releases that made it to Spotify in one place. Since that didn’t exist yet, we figured it’s
time to do it ourselves. It’s not easy to keep up with all the releases that are being put out every
week. While Spotify by no means has a complete catalog of all the new reggae and dancehall releases,
it’s a good starting point.
By building this playlist, we want to provide a useful tool to our voters and reggae fans alike. We
hope you agree with that proposition! If you wanna check the playlist out, just follow this link or
search for ”New Reggae Releases” on Spotify. And if you like it, we are very happy if you spread
the word! The official Global Reggae Charts playlist will also stay alive, of course! (As we are still
fine-tuning the process, you might find that a release is missing. In that case, please let us know!
We want the playlist to be complete but the world of reggae is actually very wide.)
Additionally, we are launching a new segment in our magazine: Business Insight. It will usually
consist of interviews with interesting people from all across the reggae industry. For this month’s
premiere, we are very happy that we managed to convince Mathieu Dassieu, CEO of the wellknown
French label Baco Records, to talk to us about the situation of reggae labels in the 21st
century. He had many insightful things to say and the result is definitely worth your time to read.
Last but not least, I want to remind of you of the Reggae Mailbag idea I introduced last month. To
sum it up: we’d love to get a reggae-focused mailbag format going, i.e. readers ask smart questions
or share thoughts/ideas and I answer/comment on them. For a lack of questions so far, we
didn’t launch it this month. But I’m still very fond of getting it going. So, if you have any questions
that you want answered, have an idea you want to share and read my take on, or have heard of
rumors that you want to read a comment on, just drop me a line at:
mailbag@globalreggaecharts.com.
And now, have fun with the new edition of the Global Reggae Charts!
Best
Thomas
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