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Hot 100 First-Timers: YG Marley Shines With Debut Single ‘Praise Jah in the Moonlight’


The legendary Marley family has yet another Billboard Hot 100-charting hitmaker in its lineage, as YG Marley debuts for the first time.

His influence has resulted in many Hot 100 chart entries under a songwriter billing, though, thanks to covers, samples or interpolations of his songs, including Eric Clapton’s “I Shot the Sheriff (No. It marks his first appearance on the Hot 100 since his writing credit on James Blunt’s “Stay the Night” in 2011; that song interpolates Marley’s 1978 classic “Is This Love.” “Praise Jah” debuts ahead of the theatrical release of Bob Marley: One Love(Feb. 14), the Reinaldo Marcus Green-helmed biopic about the late icon.

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