Latin
Daddy Yankee Breaks Latin Airplay Top 10 Record With ‘De Vuelta Pa’ La Vuelta’
Going down the list of the artists with at least 25 top 10s in the history of Latin Airplay, only one female acts secures a space, let’s take a look: Most Top 10s, Latin Airplay Daddy Yankee, 41Enrique Iglesias, 40J Balvin, 32Shakira, 31Ricky Martin, 27Marc Anthony, 26Marco Antonio Solis, 26Ozuna, 26Cristian Castro, 25Wisin & Yandel, 25 “De Vuelta” has co-written by Yankee and Marc Anthony alongside Edgar ‘Edge’ Barrera, Elena Rosa, Rafael A. Pina Nieves and produced by longtime hit maker, Sergio George. The salsa collab is Yankee’s 41st Latin Airplay top 10, dating back to his first top 10 hit “Lo Que Pasó, Pasó” in 2005. Marc Anthony, meanwhile, has logged 26 top 10s in four decades of chart history, 11 of which have hit No. 1. Elsewhere, “De Vuelta” dips 13-14 on the all-metric Hot ...
Los Legendarios, Wisin & Myke Towers’ ‘Mi Niña’ Hits No. 1 on Latin Airplay Chart: ‘We Were Playing For the Same Team’
It’s the Puerto Rican producers’ first leader as featured artists. The Puerto Rican partnership between producers Los Legendarios with Wisin and Myke Towers flourishes as their collaboration “Mi Niña” jumps 3-1 on the Latin Airplay chart dated Jan. 16. Los Legendarios comprises Marcos Ramírez and Víctor R. Torres, who launched their career as producers in 2008. “Mi Niña” earns them their first No. 1 — and first entry — on any Billboard chart as credited artists. As producers, however, they have scored previous hits. “As producers, this is our seventh No. 1 but as featured artists, this is our first,” Ramirez tells Biilboard. “We are very excited to see that validation from fans. To spend all those hours, all that work with so much passion and to see everybody enjoyin...
Shakira Sells Full Song Catalog to Hipgnosis
“Being a songwriter is an accomplishment that I consider equal to and perhaps even greater than being a singer and an artist,” said Shakira in a statement. “At 8 years old — long before I sang — I wrote to make sense of the world. Each song is a reflection of the person I was at the time that I wrote it, but once a song is out in the world, it belongs not only to me but to those who appreciate it as well.” The amount paid for Shakira’s catalog was not disclosed, but the high-profile sale highlights the potential in international catalogs in general and Latin catalogs in particular. Although there have been few major sales of high-profile Latin catalogs, in November Hipgnosis announced that its acquisition of 42 catalogs from Kobalt included hits by Enrique Iglesias, among them ...
Anitta to Host Her Own ‘Anitta and Friends’ Podcast: Exclusive
Brazilian star Anitta, who has proven to be as amusing in conversation as she is performing, will now have her own podcast. Titled Anitta and Friends, the podcast will launch this quarter and will feature a wide array of guests in discussions that will be rooted in music. The show is part of an exclusive podcast deal Anitta inked with podcast platform PodcastOne, which will also produce the show. The platform, a subsidiary of LiveXLive Media, is also home to Pitbull’s From Negative to Positive podcast and The Adam Carolla Show, among many others. Anitta’s debut season will include 12 episodes featuring “intimate, insightful” conversations with celebrities from around the world. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. I...
Latin Alternative Music Conference Sets Dates for Virtual 2021 Event
The Latin Alternative Music Conference is set to return in virtual form this year with dates scheduled for the week of Cinco de Mayo (May 4-7). Like last year, when it was held online for the first ever due to the novel coronavirus, the 22nd annual LAMC will offer free registration for panels, workshops and showcases. The second edition of the Wonder Women of Latin Music recognitions honoring women making a difference in the Latin music industry is also set to take place this year. Launched in 2020 and presented by Amazon Music, past Wonder Women honorees include Rebeca León (Lionfish Entertainment), Jennifer D’Cunha (Apple Music), Yvonne Drazan (peermusic) and Billboard‘s own Leila Cobo, among others. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are lo...
5 Uplifting Moments in Latin Music This Week (Jan. 9)
Manifesting dream bilingual collabs for 2021 To continue the momentum of the Spanglish collabs trend we saw in 2020, Billboard‘s Latin editors came up with 10 dream team ups that we’d like to see happen in 2021. From Rosalía and Billie Eilish teaming up to Karol G and Rihanna collaborating. Or how about a duet between Bad Bunny and Harry Styles? See the Spanglish collabs we’d like to see happen this year and vote for your dream collab here. Chartbreaker: Eslabon Armado Introducing Billboard‘s January chartbreaker, regional Mexican teenage trio Eslabon Armado. After recording music in their home garage in Patterson, Calif., Eslabon Armado officially joined indie label DEL Records’ roster in 2019 and scored three consecutive chart-topping albums in 2020. &#...
Hip-Hop, Latin & Vinyl’s Popularity Grew in 2020 (Rock, Pop & CDs’ Did Not)
Roddy Ricch’s “The Box” (via Atlantic) was the top streaming song in 2020 with 1.3 billion on-demand streams, beating out Future’s “Life Is Good” featuring Drake (via Epic), which had 1 billion on-demand streams. Lil Baby’s My Turn (via Quality Control) was the No. 1 album for the year, generating 2.6 million consumption units, with Taylor Swift’s folklore (via Republic) coming in second at 2.2 million album consumption units — of which 1.3 million were from sales (including 796,000 from downloads), making it the year’s best-selling album. In fact, Swift placed four albums in the year’s top 200 albums, as her Lover album ranked No. 33 with 878,000 album consumption units; evermore was No. 70 with 569,000 units and 1989 was No. 116 with 428,000 units. For the 21st year in a...
First Stream Latin: New Music From Manuel Turizo & Wisin Y Yandel, Maria Becerra & More
First Stream Latin is a compilation of the best new Latin songs, albums and videos recommended by the Billboard Latin editors. Check out this week’s picks below. Manuel Turizo x Wisin & Yandel “Mala Costumbre” (La Industria Inc.) Manuel Turizo and Wisin & Yandel team up for an explosive reggaetón track that pairs catchy lyrics with an infectious beat making “Mala Costumbre” irresistible and a standout in this week’s releases. Produced by hitmakers Tainy, Lennin Palacios, Ily Wonder, Keytin and JotaRosa, the song kicks off with a slow intro featuring Turizo’s sultry deep voice, who prefaces the heartbreak song with “I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve promised myself to not open the door anymore.” Then, as the song picks up, Yandel sings over a guitar tune, “Now I’m he...
Anuel Returns to Social Media, Shares Adorable Photo With His Son
Back in October, Anuel bid “adios” to his Instagram followers, but finally returned to the social media sphere on Monday (Jan. 4). In the adorable photo kicking off 2021, the Puerto Rican trap star is seen on a boat, smiling alongside his son Pablo (rocking his dad’s shades). “LA SANGRE PESA MÁS QUE EL AGUA!!!!!!!!!” he captioned the heart-melting snap. “La vida se acaba, las carreras se acaban pero LA FAMILIA NUNCA MUERE!!!!!” “Blood weighs more than water,” the caption translates to in English. “Life ends, careers end but family never dies.” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat...
10 of Armando Manzanero’s Timeless Songs
Here are 10 favorites: “Somos Novios”Manzanero wrote the sweetly innocent “Somos Novios” (We’re boyfriend and girlfriend, because we both feel mutual, profound love) in 1968. The purity of the lyrics connected at a global scale. While the English adaptation of the song — “It’s Impossible” by Sid Wayne — changed the lyrics (It’s impossible, tell the sun to leave the sky, it’s just impossible), the notion of enduring love remained. When Perry Como recorded “It’s Impossible,” it became his first song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in more than 12 years. “It’s Impossible” was also recorded by Elvis Presley, Andy Williams, Shriley Bassey and Andre Bocelli, among many others. In Spanish, “Somos Novios” remains one of the most covered Spanish language songs o...
Bilingual Collabs We Loved in 2020: The Weeknd & Rosalia, Jonas Brothers & Karol G and More
Now, with 2020 coming to an end, we’ve noticed more and more artists from different parts of the world and genres teaming up with Latinos. Listen to some of those Spanglish collabs below. “Blinding Lights (Remix),” The Weeknd feat. Rosalia The Weeknd and Rosalia really surprised fans when they announced a collaboration was on the way. Little did they know that the Spanish songstress was jumping on the remix to “Blinding Lights,” adding her flamenco-pop-tinged vocals to the track and an enchanting verse toward the end. “Hawai (Remix),” Maluma & The Weeknd The Weeknd teamed up with Maluma first, however, singing for the first time in Spanish on the remix of “Hawai.” Marking their first-ever collaboration, The Weeknd kicks off the remix by s...
Tito Rojas, Iconic Puerto Rican Salsa Singer, Dies at 65
Rojas, whose real name was Julio César Rojas, was a fixture in the world of salsa who landed 49 tracks on Billboard’s Tropical Airplay chart from his beginnings in the mid-1990s to as recently as this year. His No. 1 hits include 1995’s “Esperándote” and 1999’s “Por mujeres como tú,” a song that also hit No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart, and would later be reprised in regional Mexican format. Rojas rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the commercial heyday of salsa, and was long signed to tropical indie MP, known for its hard-hitting, Puerto Rican salsa acts. During that time, Rojas garnered a Grammy nomination, in 2003, for Perseverancia, in the Best Salsa/Merengue album category. MP later merged with another tropical music powerhouse, JN Records But Roja...
