2 albumsSuccess story

Peace and Love · JUNCTION

DSP strategy and marketing, end to end, across Juls’ last two albums: 50M+ streams on Peace and Love and 300k+ first-week streams on JUNCTION.

Artist
DJ Juls
Year
2024–2026
Location
Accra / London / Kingston
Services
DSP strategy / Release planning / Editorial pitching / Marketing
Peace and Love · JUNCTION campaign imagery

The artist

Juls is a British-Ghanaian producer and DJ, and one of the architects of the modern Afrobeats sound. Raised between London and Accra, he has produced for Wizkid, Burna Boy, Stormzy and Lauryn Hill. His “Juls Baby” tag sits in front of some of the genre’s defining records.

As an artist in his own right, his releases are more than beat tapes. They’re albums that carry a Ghanaian sound to a global audience, and they need a campaign built the same way.

The work

rain.labs has led DSP strategy and marketing across Juls’ recent albums. We plan how each record goes to market, pitch it to editorial teams across the platforms, and build the moments that make a release land rather than just appear.

Peace and Love (2024)

Peace and Love was Juls’ first album in seven years. It’s an 18-track record released in October 2024 through LOF Collective, with more than 20 guest artists.

The centrepiece of the campaign was a listening session with Apple Music in their Dolby Atmos studio in London. It put the album in front of the platform’s team and tastemakers, heard the way it was made to be heard.

The album has since passed 50 million streams across platforms.

JUNCTION with Projexx (2026)

JUNCTION is where Ghana meets Jamaica. Juls and Jamaican vocalist Projexx built a full album from the shared DNA of hiplife, Afrobeats and dancehall, with features from Pa Salieu, Valiant and Jahmiel. It was released on 14 August 2026 through Tabom Records and Grim Records.

The task was to take a cross-cultural record to two audiences at once and make it travel beyond both. JUNCTION did 300k+ streams in its first week across platforms.

What we did

  • DSP strategy and release planning for both albums
  • Editorial pitching across Apple Music, Spotify, Audiomack and more
  • The Apple Music × Dolby Atmos listening session in London
  • Marketing and campaign rollout

Campaign

  • Spotify, Who We Be cover: Juls and Projexx
    Spotify, Who We Be cover: Juls and Projexx
  • Pandora, Passport cover: Juls and Projexx
    Pandora, Passport cover: Juls and Projexx
  • Pandora, Soul & Ginger cover
    Pandora, Soul & Ginger cover

Impact

50M+

Streams on Peace and Love

300k+

First-week streams on JUNCTION

2

Albums: DSP strategy and marketing, end to end