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Bob Marley Tops The Year-End Billboard Reggae Albums Chart Again

 




For the sixth consecutive year, Marley’s Legend compilation album registers top sales in the genre, while no releases from 2025 are present.




Bob Marley and The Wailers’ Legend first released in 1984 is the top-selling reggae album in America of 2025. It also remains at the top of the Reggae Albums Chart list for the week ending Dec. 13, continuing to assert its presence over releases by much younger acts.




Since 2020, when catalog releases and compilations were admitted to the Billboard chart listing, the forty-one year-old collection has reigned supreme on reggae’s year-end listing. Featuring tracks that targeted the white pop mainstream audience and deliberately avoided the genre’s often confrontational politics challenging colonialism and capitalism, Legend has now sold over eighteen million copies in America alone, and many more units globally.