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With inventive re-imaginings of the reggae-splashed, hook-heavy soul popularized by acts like Sean Paul and Sean Kingston in the early half of the 21st century's first decade, Virgin Islands-born singer Iyaz (born Keidran Jones) swiftly built up a hearty cult following on MySpace. Kingston, in the process of forming his own Time Is Money label, stumbled upon Iyaz's site and snapped up the 21-year-old singer as the maiden signee of his new imprint. Iyaz's debut single, "Replay," an iPod name-checking musical stew that added splashes of classical and electronica to his usual island pop, soared to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 2009. The song, written by Iyaz and R.City, topped the U.K., Australian, and Swiss pop charts and eventually went platinum -- several times over -- in the U.S. Follow-up single "Solo" it reached number three in the U.K. followed boy third single “So Big”-- but it set up the June 2010 release of Replay. After extensive touring and a change of labels, Iyaz released Aurora only in Japan.

Monthly Listeners

14.8 million

Followers

1.3 million

Total Streams

2.1 billion

Top Cities

181,843 listeners
138,807 listeners
162,884 listeners
154,803 listeners
136,351 listeners

Popular Tracks

84 tracks
1
Replay

Replay

Dec 17, 2005

1.5 billion

streams

2
Solo

Solo

Aug 18, 2009

160.2 million

streams

3
Pyramid (feat. Iyaz)

Pyramid (feat. Iyaz)

Feb 23, 2010

90.2 million

streams

4
So Big

So Big

Aug 18, 2009

61.8 million

streams

5
Pretty Girls (feat. Travie McCoy)

Pretty Girls (feat. Travie McCoy)

Jun 24, 2011

59.0 million

streams

6
Gonna Get This

Gonna Get This

Jan 1, 2010

52.7 million

streams

7
If I Ruled the World (feat. Iyaz)

If I Ruled the World (feat. Iyaz)

Jan 1, 2011

40.2 million

streams

8
OK

OK

Aug 18, 2009

23.3 million

streams

9
You're My Only Shorty

You're My Only Shorty

Jan 1, 2011

14.2 million

streams

10
Break My Bank (feat. Iyaz)

Break My Bank (feat. Iyaz)

May 13, 2011

4.5 million

streams