Celebrate Caribbean Carnivals Globally with 'Get Soca 2017'

Celebrate Caribbean carnivals globally with Get Soca 2017, now available worldwide from all major digital retailers, from FOX FUSE. This is the third edition of the annual compilation from FOX FUSE - the world’s largest soca music label. This flagship, definitive soca collection delivers the top hits of the 2017 carnival season, featuring soca’s biggest hit-makers from across the entire Caribbean, all on one album.

Get Soca 2017 debuted at #1 on iTunes Reggae Top Albums chart in four countries, including Canada, France, The Netherlands, and Trinidad and Tobago. It also debuted in the top 10 on iTunes Reggae Top Albums chart in the U.K. and Germany, and in the top 15 in Norway. The album was featured on the iTunes U.S. homepage, and received a coveted top banner on the iTunes U.S. Reggae Top Albums section, where it debuted strong at #3 on the iTunes U.S. Reggae Top Albums chart.

Packing tropical heat with 21 blockbuster songs, Get Soca 2017 presents the soundtrack of Trinidad Carnival (Trinidad and Tobago), Crop Over (Barbados), Spicemas (Grenada), Lucian Carnival (Saint Lucia), Antigua Carnival, Vincy Mas (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) and Bacchanal Jamaica (Jamaica), for festival-goers and international soca aficionados. This sizzling collection of soca gems will have everyone jamming as it perfectly captures the essence of carnival and brings these rich Caribbean cultural celebrations to the international masses, year round.

Get Soca 2017 features the kings and queens of Caribbean carnivals, including Machel Montano, Farmer Nappy, Olatunji, Destra Garcia, Ultimate Rejects, Kes, Voice, Shal Marshall, Orlando Octave, Swappi and Nailah Blackman – all hailing from Trinidad and Tobago, along with Peter Ram, Marvay and King Bubba from Barbados, Tarrus Riley and Linky First from Jamaica, Ricardo Drue from Antigua, Boyzie and Shortpree from Grenada, Skinny Fabulous from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ricky T from Saint Lucia, and Nigerian Afrobeat star Timaya round out this full spectrum of soca sounds, which is bound to electrify soca fans everywhere.

Caribbean hit-makers bring their beats for this massive carnival soundtrack, including Adigun Productions, AdvoKit Productions, Anson Productions, BassINK Productions, Central Records, Dane Linarez, De Red Boyz, Fingas Productions, Fisherman Project, Fryktion Muzik, GBM Productions, Kendoyll Simpson, Lunatix Productions, MashWorks Family Studio Productions, RAW, Salty Sounds Productions, Stadic Music, Stratosphere Muzic, Ultimate Rejects and Wetty-Beatz Productionz.

Curated by Rhona Fox and Zack Cohen, owners of FOX FUSE, this collection is their mission in motion of propelling Caribbean music globally. “From Carriacou, Grenada to Brooklyn, New York, and from Kingston, Jamaica to Lagos, Nigera, we’re experiencing such an expansion of the soca genre across the world, and we are thrilled to capture that on one album and bring it to the global audience,” state Fox and Cohen.

TRACK LIST

1. Machel Montano - Wake Up
2. Orlando Octave - Single
3. Linky First - Rock and Come In
4. Timaya - Bang Bang
5. KES & Nailah Blackman - Workout
6. Olatunji - Tun Fo Meh
7. Swappi - Ana
8. Ricky T - Freaky Girls Featuring Eempey Slicker
9. Shortpree - She Want to Come
10. Skinny Fabulous - Watch Thing
11. King Bubba - Calling in Sick
12. Peter Ram - Good Morning
13. Shal Marshall - Famous
14. Tarrus Riley - Who Am I to You
15. Farmer Nappy & Destra Garcia - Technically
16. Marvay - Know the Face
17. Ricardo Drue - I.D. (Stamp Yuh Name)
18. Farmer Nappy - Abundance
19. Ultimate Rejects - Full Extreme
20. Boyzie - Bullseye
21. Voice - Far from Finished