“No Letting Go” the 2003 hit music by Jamaican artist Wayne Surprise just lately topped 100 million streams on Spotify, a yr after turning into licensed Gold in the USA.
As of October 10, the reggae/dancehall traditional has some 100,025,000 streams. It’s the solely music from Wayne Surprise to attain this milestone.
In August 2022, the music was licensed gold in the USA by the Recording Trade Affiliation of America (RIAA), commemorating gross sales exceeding 500,000 models.
The RIAA Gold plaque was offered to Wayne Surprise by VP Data CEO Christopher Chin on the Central Park SummerStage live performance in New York final yr. Upon receiving the award Surprise mentioned, “I’m humbled by this nice recognition.”
No Letting Go was additionally licensed gold in the UK in November 2020 for gross sales exceeding 400,000 copies.
The music was written by Surprise and Steven “Lenky” Marsden, and produced by Marsden.
It was included on Wayne Surprise’s 2003 studio album No Holding Again, which was nominated for Finest Reggae Album on the 2004 Grammy’s. The one charted at a peak place of quantity three on the UK Singles Chart. It additionally peaked at quantity 11 on the Billboard Scorching 100 in the USA.
Surprise mentioned that it was American media persona Wendy Williams who first launched the music to business radio, which then gained traction amongst DJs, propelling its momentum repeatedly ahead.
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It stays Surprise’s most profitable single so far. “I had been working with him [Marsden] for years when he was enjoying dwell music so when he converted to music manufacturing, I transitioned with him. I really gave him my first two-door Civic. I signed over the title to him and all the things, and he gave me my most profitable hit,” he mentioned of the music in a earlier MTV interview.
The music was one of many many hits from the jumpy handclap riddim often known as the Diwali Riddim, that was additionally produced by Marsden. Diwali Riddim is taken into account one of the crucial iconic dancehall riddims of all time.