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Bad Bunny banks his ninth straight No. 1 project on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart as DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS debuts atop the Jan. 18-dated list. The 17-track set also opens at No. 2 on the overall Billboard 200, No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums, and No. 1 on the Latin Rhythm Albums charts.

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DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS launches at No. 1 on Top Latin Albums with 122,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. during the Jan. 3-9 tracking week, according to Luminate. The set was released Jan. 5 via Rimas Entertainment, two days after the beginning of the tracking week which runs weekly Friday through Thursday. Thus, it arrives with five days of activity instead of the usual seven days.

DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS was available via streamers and through download services to purchase. The download version available on Benito’s webstore and the iTunes Store for $4.99. A physical version of the album has not been released. Of the album’s starting total, 8,000 units come from album sales, enough for a No. 6 start on the overall Top Album Sales chart. The set is the only Latin album to appear on the chart’s top 10 since Ivan Cornejo’s Mirada debuted at No. 9 with 9,000 copies sold in August 2024.

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Streaming activity contributes 113,500 units which represents 152.6 million official on-demand streams of the 17 songs on the album. The sum yields the largest streaming week for a Latin album in over a year, since Bad Bunny’s own Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Mañana launched at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums with 239.56 million on-demand official streams for its songs (Oct. 28, 2023-dated chart). Track-equivalent album units comprise the remaining 500 units of DeBÍ’s first week sum.

With DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Bad Bunny lands his ninth straight No. 1 on Top Latin Albums, the entirety of his charting releases. The streak began with 2019’s X100PRE which led for 46 weeks. That same year, Benito scored his second champ through the J Balvin-jointed set Oasis (eight weeks atop). YHLQMDLG, however, became his most profitable project to date, with 70 weeks at No. 1, the longest-leading album overall since Top Latin Albums begun in 1993. Here’s the recap of all those winning sets:

Peak Date, Title, Artist, Weeks at No. 1Jan. 5, 2019, X 100PRE, 46July 13, 2019, Oasis, With J Balvin, eightMarch 14, 2020, YHLQMDLG, 70May 23, 2020, Las Que No Iban A Salir, oneDec. 12, 2020, El Último Tour Del Mundo, 27Jan. 15, 2022, Anniversary Trilogy, oneMay 21, 2022, Un Verano Sin Ti, 60Oct. 28, 2023, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Mañana, 10Jan. 18, 2025, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS Takes Over Hot Latin Songs: reinforcing his habitual performance following the debut of an album, Bad Bunny seizes the Hot Latin Songs tally as the complete album charts on the current list that blends airplay, streaming activity and digital sales. The set was preceded by “EL CLúb” which rises 9-4 with the Greatest Gainer/ Sales & Streaming honors, and “PIToRRO DE COCO” that dips 10-11.

“NUEVAYoL” leads the album’s debuting cuts, bowing at No. 1 with 13 million official U.S. streams, the most clicks among the album’s 15 debuts. That sum translates to a No. 18 on the overall Streaming Songs chart and a No. 1 debut on Latin Streaming Songs. The song, produced by MAG, La Paciencia and Justo Barreto, contains samples of “Un Verano en Nueva York” by El Gran Combo De Puerto Rico (1975) and of Félix Trinidad Post Fight interview scene from the TV show The Fight of the Millennium (Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad).

Here’s the full review of the songs on Hot Latin Songs:

No. 1, “NUEVAYoL” (debut)No. 2, “BAILE INoLVIDABLE” (debut)No. 3, “VOY A LLeVARTE PA PR” (debut)No. 4, “EL CLúB”No. 5, “DtMF” (debut)No. 6, “VeLDÁ,” with Omar Courtz & Dei V (debut)No. 7, “PERFuMITO NUEVO,” with Rainao (debut)No. 8, “WELTiTA,” With Chuwi (debut)No. 9, “EoO” (debut)No. 10, “KETU TeCRÉ” (debut)No. 11, “PIToRRO DE COCO” (debut)No. 13, “KLOuFRENS” (debut)No. 15, “BOKeTE” (debut)No. 17, “TURiSTA” (debut)No. 18, “CAFé CON RON,” with Los Pleneros De La Cresta (debut)No. 19, “LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii” (debut)No. 20, “LA MuDANZA” (debut)

Notably, as DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS charts in its entirety on Hot Latin Songs, Bad Bunny adds a record-extending 189 songs on the multi-metric tally, further distancing from the next contender, Anuel AA with 122 charted songs on the 39-year-old tally. Further, he also extends his top 10 record, with a total 88 career top 10s.

All charts (dated Jan. 18, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Jan. 14). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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Ringo Starr is back with a fresh sound! The Beatles star tackled country music in his new album, Look Up, and he’s sharing the details on how he returned to the genre. 

What do you think of Ringo Starr’s new country sound? Let us know in the comments!

Ringo Starr:

They knew they just wanted to like rock. He didn’t want to hear his country sh*t, yeah. 

Melinda Newman:

But people want to hear your country sh*t. 

They do!  This sounds like me, and I love it.

Tetris Kelly:

Ringo Starr is back, and he’s got a brand new country album. The Beatles star talked with our very own Melinda Newman all about it, like, where his country roots began. 

I did a little country from before I was in the band. And we got plenty of it in Liverpool because of the lads who were in the merchant navy would bring, not only Rock and Roll over, but country. And when the country bands went on tour in England, they always played Liverpool. We always used to say, Liverpool is the capital of country music, you know, in England. 

Tetris Kelly:

And with his new single, he captured the country spirit. 

The wife’s left, the dog’s dead, and I don’t have any money for the Jukebox. 

A truck won’t start.

You know, well, if you listen to a lot of my songs, not only the country, the pop songs. The last verse is always an up, you know, just for me, that’s what I want to present. So, you know, there’s a break in the clouds and the light comes through. 

Tetris Kelly:

And he trusted producer T Bone Burnett to get it done.

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Cast recordings are a crucial part of supporting a musical’s life, during its initial run on or off-Broadway, as well as far beyond that. While a show is running, a recording available on streaming platforms can reach a wide ticket-buying audience and thus potentially help increase its performing lifespan; the recording is also often the way that regional theaters first discover shows they might produce — which proves especially important to shows that have shorter lives on Broadway.

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But while shows have ample platforms for releasing their original cast recordings — from boutique labels specializing in theater to major labels getting in on the next big hit — a trio of journeyman theater musicians noticed a gaping hole in the market for a new kind of label: one that would support a show from its earliest writing stages all the way through is fully realized production.

That new label — aimed at amplifying new voices in musical theater as well as individual solo performers — is Joy Machine Records, co-founded and run by Ian Kagey, Sonny Paladino, Brian Usifer and Will Van Dyke.

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The quartet have musical theater bonafides in spades. Kagey is a Grammy-winning engineer and mixer who has engineered numerous Broadway cast recordings in addition to working in TV, film, and with artists including Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney; Paladino is a seasoned arranger and producer who most recently was music supervisor, arranger, orchestrator and conductor for Neil Diamond bio-musical A Beautiful Noise; Usifer is an orchestrator, arranger, music director, pianist, producer and composer who recently worked on the acclaimed (but short-lived) Swept Away and Huey Lewis’ The Heart of Rock and Roll musical; and Van Dyke is a Grammy-nominated producer, songwriter, music supervisor, orchestrator and arranger who was music director of Swept Away and is music supervisor/orchestrator/arranger for the long-running off-Broadway hit Little Shop of Horrors.

“Our approach comes from our experience being on many sides of the table in that process, and understanding what it takes to see a show from inception through opening night and beyond,” says Usifer. “We approach every project with not only a high bar musically but an emphasis on kindness and transparency throughout the process.”

Joy Machine, which will be distributed by The Orchard, is launched as a full-service record label which will offer what it calls “three tiers of support for musical development.” As Van Dyke explains, “from the first piano/vocal demos through fully produced tracks,” Joy Machine’s team will “help producers think about budgeting for these recordings from the jump. That kind of awareness will also help teams build a cast recording into their budget to be able to fully preserve their final product.”

The label’s current and upcoming client roster includes The Avett Brothers’ original Broadway cast recording of Swept Away; Huey Lewis’ OBCR of The Heart of Rock and Roll; and solo projects with Joy Woods (currently starring as Louise in Gypsy on Broadway), composer Joe Iconis (Be More Chill), Corey Cott (a star of The Heart of Rock and Roll) and more.

Thus far, the team has recorded at Kagey’s own Renaissance Recording in New York for demos and smaller concept albums, and at the storied Power Station studios for original Broadway cast albums. (“They really know how to make a cast album and make it a seamless and un-chaotic experience,” says Usifer of the latter). Joy Machine is currently working on a concept album for the new musical Joy, meant to give audiences an insight into the show’s music before it ventures to Broadway.