Richie Campbell Drops New Single "You" via Bridgetown Records

Burning Spear, Ky-Mani Marley, Original Koffee and Richie Campbell share the SummerJam 2026 billing in Cologne. That lineup tells the story behind "You," released March 27 through Bridgetown Records: a Lisbon artist who built Portugal's largest independent label from scratch is now headlining the European festival circuit, and this three-minute reggae single arrives as the opening salvo of that summer run.

The track is compact and chorus-forward, Campbell returning to his reggae-informed roots after the dancehall and R&B pivot that defined his Lisboa era. Bridgetown Records holds the 2026 copyright. Campbell co-founded the label in 2016, citing a lack of music industry infrastructure in Portugal as the motivation. Its current roster includes Dengaz, Mishlawi, Plutonio and DJ Dadda, the ecosystem he was trying to build when he started: a real back end for Lisbon's urban music scene that simply did not exist before.

The groundwork stretched back to 2011, when Campbell, born Ricardo Dias de Lima Ventura da Costa in Caxias/Lisbon on November 25, 1986, became the first artist in Portugal to sell out the Campo Pequeno arena without being signed to any label. MTV Europe Music Award nominations for Best Portuguese Act followed in 2013 and 2014. His 2016 single "Do You No Wrong" went platinum and received a Portuguese Golden Globe nomination for Best Music. The December 2017 mixtape Lisboa, produced by Lhast, became the most-streamed Portuguese album of 2018, generating three platinum-certified singles. His debut headline at Lisbon's Altice Arena, capacity roughly 17,000, followed in early 2018.

The 2023 album Heartbreak & Other Stories pushed the reach further with features from Bella Shmurda and Jah Vinci. On November 6, 2025, Campbell sold out his debut London show at Electric Brixton, an event he called "my dreams turned into real life." His Spotify count sits at approximately 410,000 monthly listeners as of early 2026.

Campbell has credited Garnett Silk and Tarrus Riley as foundational influences, and Gentleman and Sizzla as the artists who opened the European reggae market in the early 2010s. He personally brought Anthony B to Portugal to perform, describing his purpose as "to make Portuguese people love Jamaican music like I did." Gentleman is also on the SummerJam 2026 lineup alongside Campbell, a pairing that traces the generational arc of European reggae from the artists who built the road to the one now headlining it.

"You" has the streaming runway. Cologne in the summer is where it gets the crowd to match.