Reggae legend Buju Banton‘s “Born For Greatness” has sold 2600 units in streams and sales according to data received by WMV by sales tracker Luminate. of that amount 500 pure copies weregild and 2.2 million on-demand streams. The sales for the album released September 8 were not enough for Buju to make the weekly Billboard chart. This is the first time in the last 30 years that an album by Banton has not debuted on the chart.

“Born For Greatness” is Buju’s Island/DefJam Records/Roc Nation follow up to Upside Down 2020 which has sold 53,000 album sales equivalent units with SEA, with TEA according to data provided to WMV by Luminate. Of that amount 11,000 units were pure album sales equalling 62 million total on-demand streams (audio + video).

Upside Down 2020 had debuted at number 2 on the Reggae Billboard Chart after combined streaming and sales of over 2900 units, according to Nielsen/MRC Data. 

BFG is lead by the singles “Coconut Water(Sip)” which has sold far sold 5000 units including 200 downloads and 684,000 streams. The title track “Born For Greatness” has sold 2000 units in the U.S. with 100 being pure sales and 264,000 on-demand streams.

Elsewhere on the Billboard Albums Chart This week Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers retains instep position for 192 weeks. The album also marks a record 800 weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the second longest running album on the BB200.

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