Comments on: The reason Whites dominate Reggae Music in sales.

By: Reggae is as white male dominated as NASCAR.

Reggae is as white male dominated as NASCAR. — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 23:26:54 +0000

[…] the world slowly progresses and evolves in terms of diversity and inclusion, reggae music seems to be stuck in the Jim Crow 1960s, at least where sales are concerned. A musical genre that prided itself on being more than just […]

By: jack

jack — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 12:58:29 +0000

I buy reggae music and also listen to The Joint on XM. I don’t buy White reggae. It doesn’t seem authentic.

By: aramis

aramis — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 11:00:41 +0000

And I see now that the singer from Groundation is in the picture.Anyway, I dont anyone can debate the quality of Graoundations music, and also their sencerity in collaberating with and pushing the music of the classic greates as Don Carlos, the Congos etc out there. Again, I did write a comment on why I think jamaican music has gone from being “IT”, to somewhat obscurity, not an article on why white artists in particular are doing good on the reggae sales charts.

By: aramis

aramis — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:52:39 +0000

This has been edited. First of all, I wrote this as a response to “jamaican reggae is dying” and has nothing to do with why there are whites are dominating the sales at the moment.
It was not my title and not what I was thinking of as I wrote it. My first language is not english, so I dont know if Ihave been misunderstood or what. But for example I wrote “if americans play reggae with more pride and musicianship etc..” I never wrote if WHITE americans…”. Its a twist that kind of make it seem that Im talking about white musicians in particular. My point is that it seems, at least from the outside, that the jamaican music industry has not “managed their gold wisely”, and that if others, black OR white put more effort in making quality reggae music, well I guess thats what people gonna buy. And to make it clear, I am not talking about Joss Stone or these illustrated in this article. I am talking about the likes of Groundation or Ziggy Recado, Alborosie etc, etc..