Jamaican dancehall artist Skippa released Ray Charles on Sunday, November 8, 2026, through his Skippa Don banner, distributed by ONErpm. The Skippa Ray Charles single runs two minutes and forty-nine seconds, and its official video landed the same day and trended on YouTube in Canada within twenty-four hours.
Skippa Ray Charles Arrives With Its Credits Intact
The record is backed by Rich Together Ent, Chargie Records and Solitary Muzic, the same production circle behind recent Skippa singles including Go and Glocks and Chips. Composition is credited to CaadoBeatz, with mixing and mastering by KC, and Bankroller Visuals directed and edited the video, as stupidDOPE documented in its release coverage. There is no featured artist on the billing. The copyright line is Skippa’s own name, and the rollout leans entirely on his voice and his video presence.
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The Toronto and Diaspora Angle
YouTube trending trackers logged Ray Charles inside the top 40 in the United States and the top 30 in both the United Kingdom and Canada the day after release, with six-figure views already banked. For a Jamaican dancehall artist, simultaneous traction in those three markets is the diaspora map lighting up at once: Kingston’s audience, plus the Jamaican communities in New York, London and Toronto that have powered dancehall’s global streaming era. For Toronto readers, that Canada top 30 placement is the local fact of this story. A same-day video is what makes it possible, because every audience gets the same shareable object at the same moment.
A Chart Record, Not Just a Moment
Skippa arrives at this single with a year of verified numbers behind him. WYFL, his collaboration with DJ Mac and CrashDummy, spent eight weeks at No. 1 on YouTube in Jamaica, with eleven charting weeks and more than seven million streams on the platform. Hugo and Go both peaked at No. 3 on YouTube in Jamaica, and Money Walk sat at No. 4 on Apple Music in Jamaica in the first week of November 2026, with Glocks and Chips, Go and Detox all charting in the same window. In December 2025 he was Jamaica’s third most-viewed artist on YouTube, at roughly 79.9 million views, behind only Chronic Law and Vybz Kartel. Billboard named him a Caribbean Rising Star in October 2026, a designation that put an industry label on what the chart data had already been saying.
Where Ray Charles Fits the Catalogue
The single continues a steady cadence that runs from the 2024 album 4Granny through the 4-PAC EP in 2025 and the seven-track #Skippaholic in May 2026, alongside singles including Service with producer Di Genius in May 2026 and Phone Screen, a collaboration with Rvssian on Head Concussion Records. Working with Rvssian and Di Genius places Skippa inside the genre’s top production tier. At two minutes and forty-nine seconds, Ray Charles is formatted for the way dancehall travels now: short, repeatable, and built to be run back in full.
