Photos by Devin Allen
On Thursday October 3rd, Busy Signal made history being the first reggae artist to do an album signing at the popular Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream New York, serving the Long Island and Queens areas. Peetah and Mojo from Morgan Heritage also stopped by. Hundreds of fans stopped by for an autograph and photo with the artist.
The kiosk, headed by Director of Retail New York, Edwin Howell, located near Aldo, JC Penny and Aeropostale on the first floor, will be open through the holidays while the VP Records Retail Store is going through renovations and is open normal mall hours. The kiosk sells an assortment of VP and reggae music titles as well as artist merchandise.
For information, call the mall at: (516) 561-1157 or visit: https://www.greenacresmallonline.com/Directory
Edwin Howell pictured with Busy Signal and photo of the Kiosk
“Parts of the Puzzle” was released Friday October 4th, after a successful week of New York and Boston promo including stops at Tidal, Billboard, YouTube, Power 105, On The Riddim, Jamn 94.5, Apple Beats 1 with Ebro which held the world premiere of his new single “100%” featuring Afro B and more. On Thursday October 3rd, he made history being the first reggae artist to do an album signing at the popular Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream New York, serving the Long Island and Queens areas.
He continued his promo with stops in Philadelphia and Connecticut and will be headed to Florida this weekend for Miami carnival. In addition to these stops, exclusive listening events were held for DJ’s and music influencers in Brooklyn and Maryland.
The new album features popular singles ‘Stay So‘ (30+ million views on YouTube), ‘One Way‘, ‘Dolla Van‘ and ‘Got To Tell You’. The four tracks have amassed millions of social media impressions to date, weekly streams in the hundreds of thousands and active rotations on mix-show radio in the US, as well as massive street credibility. The album includes features from dancehall legend Bounty Killer on ‘Nuh Weh Nuh Safe,’ veteran deejay Josey Wales on the retro flavored ‘Bring Back The Vibes’ and breakthrough Afrobeats artist Afro B on “100%”, a video for this track will be released this month.