Sean Paul
Active: 2002–2018
24
Releases
17
Active Years
About Sean Paul
In the early 2000s, American radio was hungry for new sounds, and one of the most successful crossover acts was a young man from Jamaica who had once—improbably—been a professional water polo player.
Sean Paul, born Sean Paul Francis Henriques in Kingston in 1973, had left sports to take up the microphone in the mid-’90s, developing a driving, authoritative sound anchored by his surprisingly accessible and monotonal toasting.
Even if you couldn’t decipher the patois, you got the gist of his sentiments, which fell somewhere between “Get on the dance floor” and “I love girls.” His first album, 2000’s Stage One, earned him some recognition, collecting singles dating from 1996, but it was 2002’s Dutty Rock that pushed him into global superstardom, with the huge hits “Get Busy” (an eternal dance-floor filler that, two decades later, found a new audience on TikTok) and “Gimme the Light”.
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Complete Discography
GIMME THE LIGHT
Documented across 18 weeks
GET BUSY
Documented across 9 weeks
LIKE GLUE
Documented across 12 weeks
I'M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU
Documented across 14 weeks
Ever Blazin'
Documented across 1 week
We Be Burnin'
Documented across 1 week
WE BE BURNIN'
Documented across 22 weeks
EVER BLAZIN'
Documented across 10 weeks
TEMPERATURE
Documented across 23 weeks
NEVER GONNA BE THE SAME
Documented across 6 weeks
(WHEN YOU GONNA) GIVE IT UP TO ME
Documented across 25 weeks
SO FINE
Documented across 3 weeks
Got 2 Luv U (feat. Alexis Jordan)
Documented across 4 weeks
GOT 2 LUV U
Documented across 12 weeks
She Doesn't Mind
Documented across 2 weeks
SHE DOESN'T MIND
Documented across 18 weeks
HOLD ON
Documented across 1 week
Other Side of Love
Documented across 3 weeks
OTHER SIDE OF LOVE
Documented across 9 weeks
TURN IT UP
Documented across 2 weeks
NO LIE
Documented across 30 weeks
BODY
Documented across 1 week
MAD LOVE
Documented across 16 weeks
Mad Love (feat. Becky G)
Documented across 6 weeks