Top Latin Albums
Daddy Yankee’s ‘Legendaddy’ Debuts at No. 1 on Top Latin Albums Chart, Top 10 on Billboard 200
Daddy Yankee bags his seventh No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart as Legendaddy debuts at No. 1 on the April 9-dated ranking. The 19-track set, released March 25 via El Cartel/Republic, stands out as his first album in over 10 years and is set to be a farewell celebration of his 32-year musical career. Streaming powers the majority of the Legendaddy’s first-week activity. Just under 27,000 units stem from streaming equivalent album units, 2,000 comprise traditional album sales, while the remaining units derive from track equivalent album units. The Top Latin Albums chart ranks the most popular Latin albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and strea...
Bad Bunny Continues Billboard Chart Winning Streak With ‘Anniversary Trilogy’
A month after closing 2021 as Billboard’s Top Latin Artist for a third consecutive year, Bad Bunny hits his stride again as Anniversary Trilogy, a six-LP vinyl-only box set, debuts at No. 1 on Top Latin Albums, Vinyl Albums and Latin Rhythm Albums (Jan. 15-dated charts). Anniversary Trilogy launches with 14,000 equivalent album units earned — all from album sales — in the week ending Jan. 6, according to MRC Data. The vinyl box set was initially only sold through Bad Bunny’s official website. The box comprises double-disc vinyl pressings of three other Bad Bunny No. 1 projects: El Ultimo Tour del Mundo (27 weeks at No. 1 on Top Latin Albums), YHLQMDLG (54 weeks at No. 1) and X 100PRE (46 weeks atop), the latter being the only album previously available on vinyl. Ba...
Karol G Feeling ‘Joy & Motivation’ Over Her First Top Latin Albums Chart-Topper ‘KG0516′
KG0516 was released March 26 on Universal Music Latino/UMLE. The 16-track set is a follow-up to two runner-up efforts: Unstoppable, Karol G’s album debut (Nov. 2017; 4,000 equivalent album units in its first week) and Ocean (May 2019; 12,000 units). “As the name of the album is a flight number and everything in it revolves around that trip, my challenge was to find a direction for each song,” Karol G says. “Each one should take you to a different destination, be it love, heartbreak, or celebration, including the sounds, the mix, the fusion of the genres. In reality it was full of challenges, but I had the time and disposition, since we were in quarantine, to work on it calmly, to work with love and be able to find that perfect balance between each song.” Second Female Solo Act To Debut At ...
Junior H Rules Regional Mexican Albums Chart With ‘$ad Boyz 4 Life’
The Regional Mexican Albums chart ranks the most popular regional Mexican albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). $ad Boyz 4 Life, released Feb. 12 via JHRH/Warner Latina, registered 6,000 SEA in its first tracking week, which equates to 8.3 million on-demand streams generated by the songs on the album. The 16-track set earns the 18-year-old his second Regional Mexican Albums No. 1 and fourth top five, all of which launched in less than a year, as Atrapado En Un Sueño, his sophomore debut and first entry on any Billboard album chart, debuted and peaked at No. 2 in April 2020 with 4,000 equivalent...
The Mavericks Debut at No. 1 on Latin Pop Albums Chart with ‘En Español’: ‘This is Beyond Us’
The set marks the country music band’s first full-length foray into its Hispanic roots. The Mavericks debut at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Latin Pop Albums chart (dated Sept. 5) with En Español. The band concurrently earns its first top 10 on the all-genre Top Latin Albums chart, where the set bows at No. 8. The new album marks the first visit to the Latin album charts by the group, which has notched five top 10 efforts on the Top Country Albums chart dating back to 1994. “This is an amazing feeling,” Raul Malo, The Mavericks’ lead singer, tells Billboard. “To wake up and receive a text from our manager that we have a No. 1 record. That’s not in the cards, this is beyond us. But you feel good about the work because you’ve put a lot of effort, a lot of love and time...
