October 05, 2005 @ 1:37 pm

Sean Paul Breaks Chart Record

Alyssa Rashbaum

right The artist made history this week as his album, The Trinity, topped the reggae charts with over 107,000 copies sold, making it the highest ever reggae debut and single week sales for a reggae artists in SoundScan history.

The Trinity - Sean Paul's third album, which took three years to make and was made in the Third World - debuted at #1 on the Reggae chart, landed at #7 on the Billboard 200 and hit #4 on the R&B chart. The first single off the album, "We Be Burnin'," is this week's Greatest Gainer on fhe Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Charts as it enters the top 20 this week.

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