2023 Grammy Awards Best New Artist Winner Samara Joy is experiencing the fruits of her labor as she experiences a surge of chart success after her big win.
According to Billboard, Joy's album, "Linger Awhile," a week after her Grammy Best New Artist win, is now concurrently ruling over the Billboard Heatseekers Albums, Jazz Albums, and Traditional Jazz Albums charts.
"Linger Awhile" was released last September 2022 and has reached the Top 10 of the Top Album Sales charts and the Top Current Album sales charts.
It was also only last week that Samara Joy's "Linger Awhile" debuted on the Billboard 200 albums charts, almost five months since the project was released. It debuted at No.
Luminate reports that the album has now earned 8,500 album-equivalent units, with album sales making up 6,500 of it, a 316% boost from its initial release.
The publication also noted that Samra Joy's "Linger Awhile" has amassed the largest week for any non-holiday non-reissue jazz album on both units since "Love For Sale" by Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett in January 2022.
"I just never imagined that something like this would happen to me; and maybe that is what everybody says, but like - I just see myself as this young girl who just loved to sing in front of my family. To be here, passionately sharing music that I care about and have it be acknowledged in that way is something that I'm so grateful for," she said in an interview following her Best New Artist win.
Joy follows a long line of Grammy Best New Artists. Olivia Rodrigo, who presented her with the award, won last year. Megan Thee Stallion, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, and Alessia Cara won years ahead. Joy continues a six-year consecutive streak for female artists, winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
She beat out Omar Apollo, Latto, Maneskin, Anitta, Domi & JD Beck, Tobe Nwigwe, Molly Tuttle, and Wet Leg.
Aside from Best New Artist, Joy also took home the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, also beating out The Baylor Project's "The Evening: Live at APPARATUS," Carmen Lundy's "Fade to Black," The Manhattan Transfer and WDR Funkhausorchester's "Fifty," and Cécile McLorin Salvant's "Ghost Song."
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