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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.

Ready for the Ride — official video
Good Ole — official video
2BSexy — official video
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.

  • Oct 13“NBM” released with an official video directed by GadYiy Studios Story
  • Sep 19Caribbean Music Awards, NAPA, Port of Spain — nominated for Female Dancehall Artist of the Year and the Dancehall Impact Award (won by Shenseea and Ayetian). Collaborator Valiant wins Male Dancehall Artist of the Year. Full winners list
  • 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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