Jill Scott’s ‘Pressha’ Hits No. 1 at R&B Radio

Jill Scott is back on top. The soul singer’s latest single “Pressha” rises from No. 3 to No. 1 at R&B radio.

According to MediaBase, the song received 2,160 spins from Feb. 22 through Feb. 28, pushing Kehlani‘s “Folded” from the summit. 

“Pressha” debuted at R&B radio in mid-January, before reaching the top 10 later in the month. It leaped from No. 16 to No. 9 during the tracking week of Jan. 18. 

Meanwhile, on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart, “Pressha” trails “Folded” at No. 2, up one spot from last week. 

On Tuesday, Scott released the official music video for “Pressha,” which features cameos from Tyler Lepley, Tasha Smith and Niecy Nash-Betts.

The visual poem captures the haze of being privately desired but not publicly acknowledged, and the courage to liberate oneself from another person’s narrow view of you. “I wanted you to be mine in the daytime as well as the night / But you needed to hide me,” she sings.

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“Pressha” appears on Scott’s sixth album, To Whom This May Concern, which released Feb. 13. 

Speaking on the song, Scott told The Guardian, “‘Pressha’ is about the pressure to look, sing or act a certain way. It’s partly from my own life experience, but also from noticing that people are choosing an aesthetic over character or consistency. That’s dooming our relationships because you’ve married a shell or you’ve had a child with a shell, when the things that really matter are underneath the skin.”

To Whom This May Concern debuted at No. 4 on Billboard’s Top R&B Album chart. It includes collaborations with Ab-Soul, Maha Adachi Earth, Tierra Whack, Too $hort and Trombone Shorty.