Celebrate Carnival with 'Get Soca 2016'
The Year’s Biggest Soca Tracks are Now Available Worldwide from FOX FUSE
Whine, wave and celebrate Caribbean carnivals all year long with Get Soca 2016, the second edition of this annual flagship compilation from FOX FUSE, the world’s largest soca music label. This definitive soca collection features the top hits from the 2016 carnival season, from soca’s biggest hit-makers, all on one album, and are now available from all major digital retailers worldwide.
Get Soca 2016 receives top banner, as well as a feature on the New Music chart on the iTunes U.S. Reggae home page.
The album garnered international spotlight, scoring a coveted top banner on the iTunes U.S. Reggae section and a feature on the iTunes U.S. Reggae New Music chart, during its week of release. It also debuted at #1 on the iTunes Trinidad and Tobago Reggae Top Albums chart, at #4 on the iTunes U.S. Reggae Top Albums chart and at #5 on the iTunes U.K. Reggae Top Albums chart.
Get Soca 2016 debuting at #1 on the iTunes Trinidad and Tobago Reggae Top Albums chart.
Jammed with 21 blockbuster songs, Get Soca 2016 presents the soundtrack of Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival, Barbados’ Crop Over, Grenada’s Spicemas, St. Lucia’s Lucian Carnival and Antigua Carnival, for festivalgoers and international soca aficionados. This sizzling collective of soca gems will have everyone jamming as it perfectly captures the essence of carnival and brings the sounds of these rich, Caribbean cultural celebrations to the international masses, year round.
Get Soca 2016 features the kings and queens of carnival, including the 2015 International Soca Monarch and Road March king Machel Montano and the 2015 International Groovy Soca Monarch Olatunji Yearwood from Trinidad and Tobago, the reigning Party Monarch, Road March champion and STAG Jam Tune winner Peter Ram from Barbados, the current Jumpy Soca Monarch Ricardo Drue of Antigua, world-renowned soca stars Farmer Nappy, Destra Garcia, KES, Patrice Roberts, Nadia Batson and Denise Belfon, alongside soca sensations Shal Marshall, GBMNutron, Erphaan Alves and Lavaman, in addition to rising stars Sekon Sta, Cloud 5, Jahmoun, Terri Lyons, Sedale and Fireyahs. Legendary soca icon Crazy rounds out this full spectrum of sounds from across the Caribbean, which is bound to electrify soca fans globally.
Get Soca 2016 spotlights a diverse array of top production houses spanning the Caribbean islands, including Trinidadian hit-makers Stadic Music and Wetty Beatz with “Oh Yay” (amassed over 1.5 million views on YouTube and counting), GBM Productions with “Scene,” “Party” and “Dip N Ride,” MadMen Productions with “People” and “We Head Nice,” Anson Productions and DJ Nako with “Seasonally,” AdvoKit Productions with “Road Trip” and “Let Go,” MillBeatz Entertainment with “High,” Mega Mick with “Magic,” Optimus Productions TT with “Is Not The Same,” Chainlinxx Productions with “Intentions (Wine & Touch),” and Nikholai Greene and Kyle “Novahh” Joseph with “Dismantle,” Barbadian duo De Red Boyz with “All Ah We” and “Bambilambambilambilambam,” Grenada’s WIZ Records with “BET,” Big Red with “No Behavior (Whole Place Shell Down)” and YTM Recordz with “D-Date,” St. Vincent-raised and Brooklyn-based Fryktion Muzik with “Money Done (Fete Out Money),” and St. Lucia-based Vibez Productionz with “Neighbour.”
Get Soca 2016 is curated by FOX FUSE owners Zack Cohen and Rhona Fox. “Our vision is to propel Caribbean music globally and what better way to do that than to capture the essence of the majority of Caribbean islands, which is soca in all its forms, and package that for the world to enjoy,” state Cohen and Fox.
Get Soca 2016 is now available worldwide from all major digital music retailers (released on February 5, 2016 or Fantastic Friday), from FOX FUSE.
TRACK LIST
- GBMNutron - Scene
- Erphaan Alves - Intentions (Wine & Touch)
- Sekon Sta & Nadia Batson - Magic
- Peter Ram - All Ah We
- Jahmoun - Let Go
- Cloud 5 - No Behavior (Whole Place Shell Down)
- Olatunji - Oh Yay
- Shal Marshall - Party
- KES - People
- Ricardo Drue - BET
- Farmer Nappy - Bambilambambilambilambam
- Denise Belfon - Dismantle
- Lavaman - D-Date
- Terri Lyons Featuring Lil Rick - High
- Destra Garcia - Dip N Ride
- Fireyahs - We Head Nice
- Patrice Roberts - Money Done (Fete Out Money)
- Olatunji - Seasonally
- Sedale - Neighbour
- Crazy - Is Not The Same
- Machel Montano - Road Trip
