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Career timeline

Year by year, the records, co-signs and stages that built Stalk Ashley — with the music from each era and the press that covered it.

2026
Riding with the legends

Lightning strikes twice with Sean Paul, the singles keep coming, and the Caribbean Music Awards name her a double nominee — this time as an artist, not just for a song.

  • Aug 16“Good Ole Gyal” with 450
  • Jun 10Named a 2026 Caribbean Music Awards double nominee: Female Dancehall Artist of the Year and the Dancehall Impact Award
  • 2026“2BSexy” and the Notnice-produced “Quaker (Oats Porridge)”
  • Mar 20“On The Boulevard”
  • Feb 27“Ready for the Ride” with Sean Paul, produced by Scribz Riley
2025
Festival season & awards

A VP Records reunion with the producer behind much of her catalogue, a commanding Sumfest Blitz set with a surprise-that-wasn’t guest, and her first Caribbean Music Awards nomination.

  • 2025Singles: “HEAT” with KJ Spio & KiDi, “Bratt Way”, “Speechless”
  • Aug 28“Really Like U” nominated for Dancehall Collaboration of the Year, Caribbean Music Awards
  • Jul 16Reggae Sumfest Blitz, Montego Bay — Valiant joins her for “Narcissistic”
  • Jul 16“Chosen” released with ArmzHouse Records
  • Jun 27“Therapy” with MXSSIVH released via VP Records
  • Jun 13“Put That On That” remix with Dominica’s Khallion — her first bouyon record
2024
Stalky the Bratt

The defining year: a nail brand, a Pepsi ambassadorship, a record that hit #12 on YouTube’s global Trending chart, and a debut album stacked with dancehall’s biggest names.

  • Oct 20Headlines Chug It Negril at Wavz Beach
  • Aug 30Debut album Stalky the Bratt released independently
  • Apr 17Unveiled as Pepsi Jamaica brand ambassador at Devon House
  • Mar 1“Really Like U” with Skillibeng — 464,000 views in week one
  • FebLaunches the Tipped by Stalk Ashley nail brand
2023
Sumfest & Mixpak

“Narcissistic” tops the Jamaican charts for weeks, Brooklyn’s Mixpak Records puts out “Top Body”, and she steps onto Reggae Sumfest’s Catherine Hall stage for the first time.

  • JulPerforms at Reggae Sumfest, Montego Bay
  • Jun 16“Top Body” on Mixpak Records, produced by P2J and Dre Skull
  • Feb“EarthQuake”
  • Jan 6“Narcissistic” single released via YGF Records / Zojak
2022
International link-ups

Collaboration season: a dancehall remix with London and New York, a three-continent single with Nigeria and the UK, and the premiere of the duet that would rule the following year.

  • Dec 23“Narcissistic” with Valiant premieres
  • Aug 31“Worth My While” with Manny Norté, Tiana Major9 and Ayra Starr
  • May 19“Bun Fi Bun Remix” with IQ and Kranium
2021
Dazed 100 & the Atlantic chapter

Named to the Dazed 100 list of rising creatives, and signed to Atlantic Records UK for her first major-label project — an audio-visual EP she described as walking listeners through adolescence into womanhood.

  • Dec 3Excuses, Pt. I EP released on Atlantic Records UK
  • 2021“TIP (The Party)” — performed live with The Compozers for BBC 1Xtra
  • 2021Named to the Dazed 100
2020
Building the sound

A freestyle project, a double single with a West London trio, an Audiomack cover feature and a year-ending co-sign from one of dancehall’s biggest stars.

  • Dec 23The FADER premieres the “Incognito” video
  • Dec 16Named to BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Hot For 2021 list
  • Oct 23“Incognito” with Alkaline — #1 Trending in Jamaica
  • May 10“Open” and “Deserted” feat. WSTRN released together
  • FebBona Carter, Volume 1 freestyle project
2019
Breakout year

Her debut solo single lands in February, Stormzy hand-picks her for the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge in September, and “Young” closes the year as the record that still defines her.

  • Dec“Drunk Text” passes 250,000 views
  • Dec 6“Young” released — runaway-bride video covered by Rolling Stone
  • Sept 23Joins Stormzy in BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge for Beyoncé’s “Brown Skin Girl”
  • Feb 22Debut solo single “Sin Sex”
2018
The viral spark

A freestyle entered into Jada Kingdom’s “Banana challenge” is reposted by Jada herself, passes 100,000 views and turns an unknown singer from the Jamaican countryside into the name on every timeline.

  • Oct 4“Wasteman” with Jada Kingdom arrives via Zojak — her first official release
  • SeptBanana challenge freestyle goes viral — 100,000+ views, 1,000+ comments
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