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In a rare interview, Shakira spoke for the first time live about her creative process, making history as one of the most successful Billboard chart-toppers, and what comes next. The intimate discussion with the Colombian superstar took place at the Faena Forum on Wednesday (Oct. 4) as part of Billboard Latin Music Week 2023, moderated […]
Wisin arrived at 2023 Billboard Latin Music Week with Latin hitmakers DJ Nelson, Hyde el Quimico and Luny Tunes to talk about the definitive view on identifying and creating hits.
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Titled “Wisin and La Base: Eye of the Tiger, presented by Smirnoff” and moderated by Puerto Rican radio host and podcaster Molusco, see seven things we learned about the Latin urban movement during the conversation.
1. “There is no manual for producing, but in the urban genre, we always work as a team. Since the beginning, it’s been in our DNA to work with several artists.” – Wisin
2. “The muse, first of all, has to be good. We are in a digital world, and in these times, what is most important is quality.” – DJ Nelson
3. “‘Stage songs’ are the ones where the track speaks and from the first phrase, people sing them. That’s a trick to achieve.” – DJ Nelson
4. “Urban artists have dared to experiment with other genres and we continue to be urban artists.” – Wisin
5. “The genre has come very far thanks to collaborations and fusions. More than anything, the collaborations make this genre unique.” – DJ Nelson
6. “Opening that door to touch the sky is difficult, we have no explanation but it’s always about work and discipline. We never thought that the urban genre would be where it is.” – Wisin
7. “Now we work faster and we have to adapt. We are already preparing for AI. Technology is changing a lot.” – Luny Tunes
Celebrated for more than 30 years, the 2023 edition of Latin Music Week includes a Superstar Q&A with Shakira; the Legends on Legends chat with Chencho Corleone and Vico C; Making the Hit Live! with Carin León and Pedro Capó; a panel with RBD’s Christian Chávez, Christopher von Uckermann, and Maite Perroni; Superstar Songwriter discussion with Edgar Barrera and Keityn, among many other panels, Q&As and workshops. See the ultimate Latin Music Week guide here.
This year’s Latin Music Week, taking place Oct. 2-6, also includes showcases by Peso Pluma, Mike Bahía and Greeicy, DannyLux and Fonseca, to name a few. Check out the dates and times for the showcases throughout the week here.
Official partners of the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Week include AT&T, Cheetos, CN Bank, Delta Air Lines, Lexus, Netflix, Michelob ULTRA and Smirnoff.
Latin Music Week coincides with the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards ceremony, which will broadcast live from the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Fla., on Thursday (Oct. 5) and will air on Telemundo. It will also broadcast simultaneously on Universo, Peacock, the Telemundo App, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on Telemundo Internacional.
Bad Bunny extends his top 10 record on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart to 63 top 10s with “Un Preview,” as the song debuts at No. 8 on the Oct. 7-dated list.
After Benito dropped the Tainy, MAG and La Paciencia-produced track on his WhatsApp channel as a look of what’s coming in 2024, the song debuts in the upper region fueled almost entirely by streams.(He teased the track via WhatsApp on Sept. 20, followed by a wide release on Sept. 25.)
According to Luminate, “Preview” registered 7.6 million official U.S. streams in its first four days of activity as it was released Sept. 25 — four days after the launch of the Sept. 22 tracking week (ending Sept. 28).
The 7.6 million streams in its first week yields a No. 5 start on Latin Streaming Songs, also for his record-extending 68th top 10 on the streaming list.
Sales, meanwhile, concurrently assist “Preview’s” high start on the multimetric tally: It sold 1,000 downloads, enough for a No. 2 start on Latin Digital Song Sales.
Benito ups his top 10 career count to 63 on Hot Latin Songs, way ahead of Enrique Iglesias and Luis Miguel, who are tied for second place with 39 top 10s.
As Bad Bunny continues to lap the competition, here’s the scoreboard for the artists with the most top 10s on Hot Latin Songs since the chart launched in 1986:
63, Bad Bunny39, Enrique Iglesias39, Luis Miguel37, Daddy Yankee35, J Balvin35, Shakira29, Chayanne29, Cristian Castro29, Ozuna
Further, “Preview” debuts at No. 37 on Billboard Global 200 with 26.3 million streams worldwide, while logs 18.8 million outside the U.S. for a No, 42 on Global Excl. U.S.
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The industry’s most powerful executives in Latin music helped kick off Night 1 of Billboard Latin Music Week 2023 with the invite-only Latin Power Players Event — and the influence was undeniable.
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The two-hour affair, which was presented by the first-ever Lexus TX with 3 row seating, celebrated Billboard’s annual list honoring executives across every sector of Latin music. Taking place on Monday, October 2, at the chic Pao by Paul Qui eatery, the industry’s biggest tastemakers gathered for the intimate night of networking, speeches and award presentations. Inside of the affair, Billboard leadership, including Mike Van, President, Dana Droppo, Chief Brand Officer, Leila Cobo, Chief Content Officer of Latin-Español and Hannah Karp, Editorial Director, helped shepherd festivities with some opening remarks before giving the spotlight to the honorees.
The night’s biggest accolade went to Nelson Albareda, CEO of Loud And Live, for Executive of the Year, who was introduced by hitmakers El Alfa and Silvestre Dangond. Meanwhile, Walter Kolm, Founder & CEO of WK Entertainment, took home a special honor with the People’s Choice Award, while Noah Assad of Rimas Entertainment accepted Top Latin Album Label of the Year and Esteban Geller of Sony Music U.S. nabbed the Hot Latin Songs Label of the Year Award.
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While attendees gathered at the event, consumers experienced a glimpse of Amazing with the first-ever Lexus TX, which was displayed outside of the Faena Forum across the street. With its 7-passenger seating available, the display allowed attendees to get a close-up of the car with its quiet in-cabin atmosphere, spacious third-row and generous cargo space.
Atmosphere at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Atmosphere at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Atmosphere at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Atmosphere at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Walter Kolm at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Dana Droppo at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Noah Assad, Leila Cobo at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Silvestre Dangond, Nelson Albareda, El Alfa at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Hannah Karp, Ingrid Fajardo, Griselda Flores, Mike Van, Leila Cobo, Sigal Ratner-Arias, Isabela Raygoza, Jessica Roiz and Luisa Calle at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Julianna Agreda and Walter Kolm at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Nelson Albareda at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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While attendees gathered at the event, consumers experienced a glimpse of Amazing with the first-ever Lexus TX, which was displayed outside of the Faena Forum across the street. With its 7-passenger seating available, the display allowed attendees to get a close-up of the car with its quiet in-cabin atmosphere, spacious third-row and generous cargo space.
Atmosphere at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Atmosphere at the Power Players Cocktail Reception held at Pao at Faena Hotel as part of Billboard Latin Music Week on October 2, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Celebrated for more than 30 years, Billboard Latin Music Week is the longest running and biggest Latin music industry gathering in the world, and coincides with the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards, which will be broadcast live on Telemundo on Thursday, Oct. 5, from the Watsco Center in Miami.
Manuel Turizo has had an extraordinary year; his Marshmello collaboration “El Merengue” received a Latin Grammy nomination, and his list of collaborators was expanded thanks to hit songs like “Copa Vacía” with Shakira, “Vagabundo” with Sebastián Yatra and Beele, “De Lunes a Lunes” with Grupo Frontera and “Los Cachos” with Piso 21.
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It’s a musically eclectic and prolific path that the 23-year-old Colombian star began at the age of 16, when he uploaded “Una Lady Como Tú” — a song he co-wrote with his brother — to streaming services. “Lady” quickly became the song that put him on the map and changed his life.
“At first you have no idea about anything,” Turizo recalled on Wednesday (Oct. 4) at Billboard Latin Music Week, where he participated in the Rising Star Q&A panel presented by Delta Air Lines and moderated by Jessica Roiz, assistant editor, Latin at Billboard. “When we wrote it, we were trying to figure out how the hell to upload a song to Spotify. I asked my cousin, who was better off financially, for his credit card. It cost $9 to upload each song,” he added.
On how he seized the momentum to not remain a “one hit wonder,” he said “that is done by getting into the studio and making music all the time, building a path little by little.”
Known for not pigeonholing himself into any particular genre, the “La Bachata” performer enjoys exploring new music styles and challenging himself. It’s something his own team didn’t understand at first; in fact, Turizo said they initially advised him not to release a bachata, because it was a Dominican genre and not Colombian.
Ultimately, though, he decided to follow his gut. “It is important to listen to your team, but I have the last word, I say what I want to record,” he said. “Today, they get my vision.”
Celebrated for more than 30 years, the 2023 edition of Latin Music Week includes a Superstar Q&A with Shakira; the Legends on Legends chat with Chencho Corleone and Vico C; Making the Hit Live! with Carin León and Pedro Capó; a panel with RBD’s Christian Chávez, Christopher von Uckermann, and Maite Perroni; Superstar Songwriter discussion with Edgar Barrera and Keityn, and, among many other sessions, Q&As and workshops. See the ultimate Latin Music Week guide here.
Official partners of the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Week, taking place Oct. 2-6, include AT&T, Cheetos, CN Bank, Delta Air Lines, Lexus, Netflix, Michelob ULTRA and Smirnoff.
Latin Music Week coincides with the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards ceremony, which will broadcast live from the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Fla., on Thursday (Oct. 5) and will air on Telemundo. It will also broadcast simultaneously on Universo, Peacock, the Telemundo App, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on Telemundo Internacional.
Superstar songwriters Edgar Barrera and Keityn — the power duo behind songs such as Shakira’s “El Jefe” and Maluma’s “Hawái” — spoke at length about the process behind songwriting for some of today’s biggest stars during the Superstar Songwriters panel at Latin Music Week on Wednesday (Oct. 4).
Presented by Sony Music Publishing and moderated by Billboard‘s Leila Cobo, the pair also spoke about their humble beginnings, passion for songwriting and protecting songwriters rights. Read the best quotes from the Superstar Songwriters panel below:
Discovering Their Love for Music
Edgar Barrera: “I was raised on the border. My passion comes from being bicultural. I would go to school in the U.S. and listen to music in English there. Then, when I’d go home in Mexico, we’d hear Mexican music. When I was 6 or 7 years old, I was already playing the guitar. I’d write songs for our band. We’d rehearse all the time but never really perform.”
Keityn: “My dad is also a singer and he would talk about it so much that at one point, I didn’t like it. It wasn’t my dream to be in music — I actually wanted to be a soccer player. But when I was 8 years old, I got sick and couldn’t move my left leg, so my mom gifted me a guitar, and that’s when I learned how to play it and started falling in love with music again.”
The Story Behind “Frágil” by Yahritza Y Su Esencia and Grupo Frontera
Barrera: “I had sent ‘Frágil’ to Christian Nodal and we were looking for a feature. At one point, we heard Nodal and Karol G wanted to do something together, so we thought that could be the song. But then nothing happened and the song was just sitting on WhatsApp and Nodal never recorded it. I had a session with Yahritza at 11 a.m. one day, and I didn’t have anything written for her. I called Keityn and he reminded me about ‘Frágil.’ She recorded it and it was so good. When Frontera jumped on, I had Juanito record the accordion the day before his wedding, right before he left on honeymoon.”
On Writing Songs for Women
Keityn: “Karol G particularly, when we wrote ‘Tusa,’ that song is in third person, so really a man or a woman can sing that song. That works really well with Karol. If we start thinking about genders, then we are limiting ourselves.”
Barrera: “You can’t think that way anymore. We don’t have that mentality of ‘a woman can’t say this’ because why can’t women say what men sing about?”
On Protecting Songwriter Rights
Keityn: “Honestly, our rights are being impacted because now you’re seeing managers who are being credited in the songwriting portion. You see the manager, the investor. It’s really uncomfortable. Like, I get that this is a business, but they should not be included in the credits. There should be a separate part where their names can be included. Those who wrote the song should feel respected. We need to give value to that.”
Barrera: “We’re really putting a stop to that with the help of our publishers and with the Letter of Direction, we’re encouraging songwriters to send those letters. A manager taking credit or a split hasn’t affected me personally, but visually, it’s impactful to see their names there. I honestly don’t know any manager that writes songs.”
Celebrated for more than 30 years, the 2023 edition of Latin Music Week includes a Superstar Q&A with Shakira; the Legends on Legends chat with Chencho Corleone and Vico C; Making the Hit Live! with Carin León and Pedro Capó; a panel with RBD’s Christian Chávez, Christopher von Uckermann, and Maite Perroni; Superstar Songwriter discussion with Edgar Barrera and Keityn, and, among many other sessions, Q&As and workshops. See the ultimate Latin Music Week guide here. This year’s Latin Music Week, taking place Oct. 2-6, also includes showcases by Peso Pluma, Mike Bahía and Greeicy, DannyLux and Fonseca, to name a few. Check out the dates and times for the showcases throughout the week here.
Official partners of the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Week, taking place Oct. 2-6, include AT&T, Cheetos, CN Bank, Delta Air Lines, Lexus, Netflix, Michelob ULTRA and Smirnoff.
Latin Music Week coincides with the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards ceremony, which will broadcast live from the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Fla., on Thursday (Oct. 5) and will air on Telemundo. It will also broadcast simultaneously on Universo, Peacock, the Telemundo App, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on Telemundo Internacional.
Baseball and Latin music collided at Latin Music Week 2023’s Latin Swing panel, which took place on Wednesday (Oct. 4), presented by Rimas Sports. In the discussion moderated by Ángel “El Guru” Vera of Rapetón Entertainment, Latin trap stars Arcángel and Eladio Carrión were joined by athletes Ezequiel Tovar (Venezuelan baseball shortstop for the Colorado Rockies) and Francisco Javier Álvarez (Venezuelan baseball catcher for the New York Mets).
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The 45-minute conversation touched on the intersection of the music and sports disciplines, how Latin music and baseball are deeply ingrained in the cultures of Latin American countries, as well as how it serves as a source of national pride and unity.
Álvarez highlighted how listening to Latin music is a mood changer. “If I am have a bad day, we listen to music, it changes your life in the moment,” he said. He also touched on the power of teamwork, saying, “You can’t think about yourself only. You have to think as a team, so every time I go into the game I want to win.”
“The competition I have is with myself, to always surpass yourself,” echoed Tovar. He also mentioned that dembow and reggaetón are what gets him hyped before games, stating that his state of mind changes to win it.
Tovar’s walk-up song is “Feel Me” by Argentinian rapper Trueno, and Álvarez’s is Dominican dembow song “Boy Boy” by Yaisel LM and Hansel El De La H.
Multi-hyphenate artist Carrión — who is not only hitmaker, but a professional swimmer and an avid golfer — related plenty to the sports hustle. “I swam Monday to Sunday three times a day at three in the morning for four hours. If you are a great professional, then you’ll do extraordinary work.”
Arcángel offered personal anecdotes relatable to Latinos. “I grew up watching baseball on television,” he shared. “I grew up admiring athletes. I’m a fan of sports in general, of the discipline to be able to stand out. If [the athletes] are Dominican and Puerto Rican that encouraged me a lot. [I admire] the discipline they have to put in. They have to train, the dizziness is different.”
Celebrated for more than 30 years, the 2023 edition of Latin Music Week includes a Superstar Q&A with Shakira; the Legends on Legends chat with Chencho Corleone and Vico C; Making the Hit Live! with Carin León and Pedro Capó; a panel with RBD’s Christian Chávez, Christopher von Uckermann, and Maite Perroni; Superstar Songwriter discussion with Edgar Barrera and Keityn, and, among many other sessions, Q&As and workshops. See the ultimate Latin Music Week guide here.
Official partners of the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Week, taking place Oct. 2-6, include AT&T, Cheetos, CN Bank, Delta Air Lines, Lexus, Netflix, Michelob ULTRA and Smirnoff.
Latin Music Week coincides with the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards ceremony, which will broadcast live from the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Fla., on Thursday (Oct. 5) and will air on Telemundo. It will also broadcast simultaneously on Universo, Peacock, the Telemundo App, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on Telemundo Internacional.
Mexican superstar Thalia attended Billboard‘s Latin Music Week to exclusively present four songs from her new EP of Mexican music. Attendees at the “Premiere Party” on Tuesday night (Oct.r 2) were the first to hear the first single “Bebé, Perdón”, released at midnight, in addition to “Te Va a Doler”, “Para Qué Celarme” and “Choro”, part of the album that will be titled A Mucha Honra.
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The album, which she said she had been working on for almost two years, will be released in early 2024 under the Sony Music Latin label. Under the production of Jimmy Humilde, it will include collaborations with Ángela Aguilar and Dania from Grupo Sin Límite, the Mexican superstar announced.
Dressed in a monochrome white outfit, blue boots, and shiny gloves, the Mexican singer shared with the deputy editor of Billboard Español Sigal Ratner-Arias, the moderator of the event, details of the creative process with Humilde, one of the promoters of the global phenomenon of the new wave of Mexican music with whom she partnered to produce it, and who also went on stage for a few minutes.
Humilde says that he made his first call with Thalia “trembling with emotion”, because of the admiration he has for her as an artist. However, he found a very calm person and the connection was immediate, he mentioned. They soon began working on the project with which Thalia wanted to delve deeper into her roots as a Mexican.
“The requintos evoke something in the soul, something in the heart, something of longing, something of oblivion, of pain, of love, something distant but close,” she said. “And then accompanied by the lyrics… I needed to sing this type of content in my songs. In this album I have discovered a more heartbroken, spiteful, painful Thalia.”
Regarding the moment that Mexican music is going through, which now enjoys a global reach, the singer noted: “We have always been in fashion. Our music has always been current, and at full strength, we have never stopped in all the musical genres that Mexican music encompasses, which is totally broad, it is beautiful. What is happening now is that the new generation, I feel, is embracing the sounds that move your insides: the requintos, the accordions, they are rediscovering (Mexican music) … I think they are making it their own.”
“That she is adapting and coming to support this genre is incredible,” added Humilde about Thalia’s new foray. “Imagine, having someone with so much name, so much power, so much history entering the new genre that we have in our Mexican music is something super cool.”
To decide who would accompany her to connect with her roots in music with more regional Mexican sounds, Thalia had a very methodical approach. “My father was a criminologist,” the star recalls. “I remember that I would sit on the table and he would tell me: ‘Always ask, always analyze… you look for something that you need to know.’ And when this movement came out, criminologist Thalia Sodi came out, and I said, where did this come from? Who was the precursor? Who was there from the beginning?… and I came to mister Humilde.”
Humilde took Edgar Rodríguez, producer and close collaborator, to meet with the artist to work on the project. Thalia’s words to Rodríguez were: “I don’t bite. I want to sound like me, like Thalia, but not. Help me so I can let go of the crutches that I use, that I love, my styles… Tell me, I’m not going to get angry. I want to learn; I want to change and learn other things. And we did it.”
“I’m happy, excited precisely because tonight, like Cinderella, the float is going to change… We’re going fully in,” said the singer about the first single of the album, “Bebé Perdón,” that is now available.
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“This song hurts me, I put it on repeat in the car while I drive… It doesn’t hurt me because of a personal relationship, because it’s not what I’m living. I am very happy, very grateful in my life, but it touches a vein of nostalgia, something that no longer exists, that is already gone, a part of nostalgia for our country, somewhere in our life history”, she said.
On the visual side, the superstar says that the video was recorded in California with 115-degree temperatures that caused the soles of her boots to melt on the pavement while she was alert for the rattlesnakes that inhabit the area. The singer performs the song in an open field, dressed in a silver sequin top with fringes, accompanied by three musicians and a truck.
Celebrated for more than 30 years, the 2023 edition of Latin Music Week includes a Superstar Q&A with Shakira; the Legends on Legends chat with Chencho Corleone and Vico C; Making the Hit Live! with Carin León and Pedro Capó; a panel with RBD’s Christian Chávez, Christopher von Uckermann, and Maite Perroni; Superstar Songwriter discussion with Edgar Barrera and Keityn, among many other panels, Q&As and workshops. See the ultimate Latin Music Week guide here. This year’s Latin Music Week, taking place Oct. 2-6, also includes showcases by Peso Pluma, Mike Bahía and Greeicy, DannyLux, and Fonseca, to name a few. Check out the dates and times for the showcases throughout the week here.
Official partners of the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Week include AT&T, Cheetos, CN Bank, Delta Air Lines, Lexus, Netflix, Michelob ULTRA, and Smirnoff.
Latin Music Week coincides with the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards ceremony, which will broadcast live from the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Fla., on Thursday (Oct. 5) and will air on Telemundo. It will also broadcast simultaneously on Universo, Peacock, the Telemundo App, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on Telemundo Internacional.
Wisin brought the heat and the fabled La Base party from Puerto Rico to Miami at Oasis Wynwood for Latin Music Week 2023 on Tuesday (Oct. 3). During his invigorating set that kicked off close to midnight and was presented by Smirnoff, he delivered an electrifying show that had the packed house dancing.
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Clad in black leather, including a Mad Max-esque vest and a baseball cap, the Puerto Rican icon performed his hits in a set filled with old and new reggaetón songs, including hard-hitting classics such as “Traviesa” and “Muévelo.”
One of the evening’s highlights was his surprise guest, the Dominican dembow sensation El Alfa, who joined him on stage for a thrilling delivery of “Paleta Pa To El Mundo.” Other special guests included Luny Tunes and DJ Nelson, who were behind spinning their biggest dance-floor hits. Notably, this event marks the first-ever La Base party outside of Puerto Rico.
On Wednesday (Oct. 4) at 1:15 p.m. ET, the “Escápate Conmigo” hitmaker will be participating in a panel discussion titled Wisin & La Base: Eye of the Tiger, presented by Smirnoff. This conversation will also bring together reggaetón icons Luny, Tunes, DJ Nelson and Hyde, and will see them delve into the art of identifying and creating chart-topping hits. This panel discussion is set to provide insight into Wisin’s visionary label and music company, La Base.
Celebrated for more than 30 years, the 2023 edition of Latin Music Week includes a Superstar Q&A with Shakira; the Legends on Legends chat with Chencho Corleone and Vico C; Making the Hit Live! with Carin León and Pedro Capó; a panel with RBD’s Christian Chávez, Christopher von Uckermann, and Maite Perroni; Superstar Songwriter discussion with Edgar Barrera and Keityn, and, among many other sessions, Q&As and workshops. See the ultimate Latin Music Week guide here.
Official partners of the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Week, taking place Oct. 2-6, include AT&T, Cheetos, CN Bank, Delta Air Lines, Lexus, Netflix, Michelob ULTRA and Smirnoff.
Latin Music Week coincides with the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards ceremony, which will broadcast live from the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Fla., on Thursday (Oct. 5) and will air on Telemundo. It will also broadcast simultaneously on Universo, Peacock, the Telemundo App, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on Telemundo Internacional.
More than 25 artists are confirmed to take center stage at the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards, set to air live Thursday, Oct. 5 on Telemundo.
Bad Bunny—a 15-time finalist, including artist of the year, tour of the year, and top Latin albums artist of the year, male—is one of the most recent acts to confirm his participation at the awards show. Bunny, who released singles “un x100to” with Grupo Frontera, “Where She Goes,” and “Un Preview” this year, is set to make a surprising worldwide TV premiere.
Other performers the audience can expect to see live are El Alfa, TINI, Nicki Nicole, Manuel Turizo, Farruko, Myke Towers, Marc Anthony, Olga Tañon, Sofia Reyes, and Peso Pluma, who leads this year’s awards show as a 21-time finalist across 15 categories, including artist of the year and artist of the year, new.
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In addition to the promising star-studded lineup, a couple of special awards will be presented: Mexican cumbia group Los Ángeles Azules will receive the Billboard Artistic Trajectory Award; Puerto Rican reggaeton star Ivy Queen will receive the Billboard Icon Award; and Colombian sensation Karol G will receive the Billboard Spirit of Hope Award for the philanthropic work through her foundation, “Con Cora.”
Hosted by Jacqueline Bracamontes and Danilo Carrera, the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards will broadcast live on Oct. 5 via Telemundo and will also be simulcast on Universo, Peacock, the Telemundo App, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean via Telemundo Internacional.
Below, check out all the performers and vote for you you’re excited to see: