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Producer and songwriter Gaby Music has signed a record deal with Universal Music Latino. Born Juan Rivera, the Puerto Rican hitmaker has produced and penned hits for an array of artists including Don Omar, Daddy Yankee, Rosalía, Bad Bunny and Ozuna, among many others. His partnership with Universal Music Latino marks his first record deal […]
Just four months after Karol G crowned Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart, she is back at No. 1 with her fifth studio album, Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season), which debuts atop the Aug. 26-dated list. The Colombian captures her third champ following KG0516 (2021) and Mañana Será Bonito (2023); the latter, the 17-track set that gave her a first Billboard 200 hit, ruled the Latin albums ranking for five weeks between March and April 2023.
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The five-and-a-half-month gap between the two Mañana albums hitting No. 1 is the shortest span between new No. 1s for a living woman on Top Latin Albums. Jenni Rivera had a quicker succession of No. 1s — between La Misma Gran Señora and Joyas Prestadas: Pop (less than three months apart, between Dec. 19, 2012 and March 16, 2013).
Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season) was released in three different formats, a nine-track standard wide digital album, a 10-track digital and streaming album and a 10-track CD and vinyl LP. The three 10-track formats include nine standard songs plus one bonus track.
Bichota Season arrives at the summit with 67,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. during the Aug. 11-17 tracking week, according to Luminate. As with all Karol G releases, streaming powers most of the album’s first week, with a total of 49,000 units from the consumption method. That figure equals to 68.26 million on-demand official streams for the album’s 10 songs. Traditional album sales contribute 17,000 units, while track-equivalent album units comprise 1,000 units.
An equivalent album unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album (track equivalent album units, TEA), or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album (streaming equivalent album units, SEA).
With Bichota Season part of Karol G’s collection of hits, here’s the list of all her top 10s on Top Latin Albums, three of which debuted at No. 1:
Debut Position, Album, Debut Date
No. 2, Unstoppable, Nov. 18, 2017
No. 2, Ocean, May 8, 2019
No. 1, KG0516, April 10, 2021
No. 1, Mañana Será Bonito, March 11
No. 1, Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season), Aug. 26
Further, Bichota Season joins three other sets on Top Latin Albums this week, Mañana Será Bonito at No. 4, KG0516 at No. 18 and Ocean at No. 42.
Elsewhere, Bichota Season bows in the top five on the all-genre Billboard 200, at No. 3, her second top 10 on the tally, after Mañana Será Bonito launched at No. 1 in March. The album also earns Karol G her second top 15 entry on Vinyl Albums, at No. 14, following Mañana Será Bonito’s No. 6 debut and peak in July.
As Bichota Season arrives, nine tracks of the album debut on the multimetric Hot Latin Songs chart. The album’s new recruits join the set’s first single, “S91,” which rises 20-6 as the Greatest Gainer Sales/Streaming of the week with 8.9 million streams earned during the same period. Plus, it re-enters at No. 37 on the overall Streaming Songs list, and flies 25-6 on Latin Streaming Songs.
With three other tracks outside Bichota holding strong on Hot Latin Songs, Karol G places 13 simultaneous titles on the current tally. Here’s the recap:
No. 1 “Mi Ex Tenía Razón” (debut)
No. 2 “Qlona” with Peso Pluma (debut)
No. 6, “S91”
No. 12, “Una Noche En Medellín (Remix)” with Cris MJ & Ryan Castro (debut)
No. 13, “TQG,” with Shakira
No. 15, “Okidoki” (debut)
No. 18, “Amargura”
No. 19, “Me Tengo Que Ir” with Kali Uchis (debut)
No. 22, “Dispo” with Young Miko (debut)
No. 26, “Bichotag” (debut)
No. 29, “Gatita Gangster” with Dei V (debut)
No. 36, “Provenza (Remix)” with Tiesto (debut)
No. 44, “Watati,” featuring Aldo Ranks
Anitta, D-Nice and Sofia Carson have joined the star-studded lineup of the 2023 Global Citizen Festival slated to take place on the Great Lawn of New York’s Central Park on Sept. 23. The artists join a previously announced list of headliners that includes the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Megan Thee Stallion, Conan Gray and Stray Kids.
Other performers, activists and actors slated to appear at the event include Bill Nye, Bridget Moynahan, Busy Philipps, Carmelo Anthony, Common, Connie Britton, Danai Gurira, Gayle King, Jordan Fisher, Lewis Pugh, Padma Lakshmi, Phoebe Gates, Rachel Brosnahan and Sophia Bush.
This year’s Global Citizen Festival campaign is focused on urging governments to take immediate action to address systemic issues around extreme poverty. “We’re thrilled to join forces with these passionate artists and advocates to call for urgent action to address the climate crisis, demand equity for women and girls and disrupt the cycles holding people in extreme poverty,” said Katie Hill, SVP, Head of Music, Entertainment and Artist Relations, Global Citizen in a statement. “This year’s campaign is driving a record number of actions from global citizens around the world, and we’re grateful to this year’s performers and presenters for leveraging their voices and joining us on the Great Lawn on September 23.”
Tickets for the 2023 Global Citizen Festival are free and can be earned by taking action on the Global Citizen app or here. The festival be broadcast and streamed on ABC, ABC News Live, Apple Music and the Apple TV app, Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch, Facebook, Hulu, iHeartRadio, Instagram, Mediacorp, SABC, TikTok, TimesLIVE, Veeps, X, YouTube, the Global Citizen app and globalcitizen.org.
Regional Mexican music is dominating the Billboard charts thanks to artists such as Peso Pluma, Fuerza Regida, Carin León, Banda MS and Edén Muñoz. Overall, the Mexican style is having an unprecedented year, with consumption up 42.1% so far in 2023, outpacing all genres except K-pop, which is up 49.4%. As of July 15 alone, 27 Mexican regional tracks entered the Billboard Hot 100.
But what, exactly, is Mexican music — or as it is better known in many places, regional Mexican music?
The general term encompasses many subgenres, from corridos and mariachi to norteño and banda. Historically, Mexican music — alive for more than a century and a half — has had a strong presence on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Mariachi was symbolic of Mexico internationally, with which the country was recognized by outsiders. It is arguably the most international Mexican style, thanks to legends such as Vicente Fernández — and, before him, Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete and José Alfredo Jiménez, during the great Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1950s.
Two decades ago, the rise of Sinaloan banda and norteño music (named after the region where it was born) came to complement the strength of Mexican music with new sounds and new forms.
For example, pioneering artists like Sinaloa native Ariel Camacho led the sierreño style with Los Plebes del Rancho. Although his life was cut short at the age of 22 in 2015, years later he inspired a whole group of Generation Z musicians, such as Ivan Cornejo and Yahritza y Su Esencia, who have brought the movement to the masses. Similarly, Sonora-born Natanael Cano, also inspired by Camacho, revamped the corridos with his own tumbado version and gave them a more streetwise approach, closer to the current generation.
Mexican music has gone from being a niche genre to securing a global audience thanks to a traditional musical base such as Banda MS or the revolutionary new approach of Peso Pluma. Over the last five years, the genre grew 604% in Mexico, compared to 212% in the United States and more than 400% globally on Spotify.
“Música mexicana has gone through a similar evolution that reggaetón also went through when it blew up; [the artists have] modernized the way they look, the way they write lyrics, creating a movement for their generation,” Maykol Sánchez, head of artist and label partnerships for Latin America and U.S. Latin at Spotify, previously told Billboard. “It has been a long time coming, and Mexican being such a strong culture in the U.S. with the population, it just makes sense.”
Across the border, in the United States — home to the second largest Mexican community in the world — this genre is constantly evolving and continues to be the soundtrack of multigenerational households. Below, Billboard Español dissects the nuances and rhythms that exist within the burgeoning Mexican music scene.
— With additional reporting by Griselda Flores and Isabela Raygoza.
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Almost two weeks ago, Billboard Latin and Billboard Español revealed our picks for “The 50 Most Essential Spanish-Language Rappers of Yesterday and Today,” honoring the most influential and outstanding rap stars from the Hispanophone world in celebration of Hip-Hop’s 50th anniversary.
The selection process of the ranked list — which was led by Residente at No. 1, followed by Vico C at No. 2, Ana Tijoux at No.3, Tego Calderón at No. 4, and Orishas at No. 5 — took into account body of work/achievements (charted releases, gold/platinum certifications), cultural impact/influence (how the artist’s work fostered the genre’s evolution), longevity (years at the mic), lyrics (storytelling skills) and flow (vocal prowess).
On social media, the ranking became a viral topic of conversation amongst fans, podcasters and artists alike, who shared different opinions and points of view on who should be at No. 1. As a result, Billboard opened a fan-based poll to the public, asking readers to vote for their favorite artist from the 50 acts.
The winner? MC Ceja, nabbing over 30 percent of the votes. He was followed by the late Venezuelan artist Canserbero, with more than 17 percent of the votes.
“At first I was confused, because a lot of people were hitting me up on social media and they seemed pretty upset by it, saying that I needed to be in the top 10 or top 5,” Ceja tells Billboard. “But it felt good to still be acknowledged and for people to still listen to my music after all these years. I feel great and grateful because it signifies my legacy, my talent, my effort, and my career.”
Named after his heavy set of eyebrows, Ceja is a Puerto Rican-born, Brooklyn-raised artist, who is credited as one of the first rappers of the ‘90s to spit bars in both Spanish and English. Known for staple tracks such as “Se Lamentarán,” “Bacalao,” “Loba” and “Brillando Más,” Ceja is an enduring reference point in the Latin rap community, influencing several artists who ranked high on the list, including Residente.
“The key is the passion I always had for music and the culture,” he explains. “I always tried to be different from everyone and build my own style and craft, not knowing I was going to influence all of these artists and the generations after me. I’ve always been faithful to rap music because it makes me feel good. I don’t do music to please other people. Music saved my life.”
Below, check out our readers’ top 10 Latin rappers picks, and see the full poll results here.
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On Monday (Aug. 21), Miguel Bosé shared that he was the victim of an assault by armed men at his home in Mexico City, where he was held hostage along with his two children by 10 hooded men on Friday. Local authorities say they have opened an investigation.
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“Dear friends, on Friday night a commando of 10 armed subjects broke into my home, assaulted us, tied my children, the house staff, and myself for more than two hours,” the Spanish star wrote on his official Instagram account.
The “Si Tú No Vuelves” singer assured that everyone is fine, although he said the thieves took “everything” in an act that, in his opinion, seemed “very studied and militaristic.”
“It was all very tense, tricky and unpleasant,” he said, but “we are all fine. My children behaved like two brave men. Admirable.”
He did not specify, however, whether he had reported or will report the crime to the authorities. The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office reported in a statement that it had already opened an investigation folder after the dissemination in the media of a “possible robbery at the home of a foreign singer, located in the Álvaro Obregón Mayor’s Office.”
The agency specified that, so far, “neither the victim and/or his legal representative, nor the administration of the residential complex where the events occurred have appeared before this Prosecutor’s Office to denounce the crime.” He invited Bosé and/or his legal representative to file a formal complaint.
In his Instagram post, Bosé also asked his followers to listen to his version and not to pay attention to rumors. In this sense, he clarified that he does not plan to leave Mexico, the country where he has lived since he left Panama in the fall of 2018. The artist lives in one of the most exclusive areas of the Mexican capital.
“I am very sorry to disappoint you, here I am and here I will stay to face whatever it takes, in the most hospitable country on the planet. We go on…”, he concluded in his post.
A wave of supportive messages have circulated social media following the 67-year-old singer and actor’s revelation, including from Mexican singers Carlos Rivera and Ximena Sariñana, as well as Italian singer Laura Pausini and Colombian star Carlos Vives, who left comments on the post.
“Migue all my solidarity to you and your family. I send you a big hug and we are glad you are well,” Vives wrote.
“Stay strong Miguel, I love you! I’m glad everyone is well,” wrote Mexican film and TV director Manolo Caro.
Miguel Bosé’s full message in Spanish below:
Mexican music band Grupo Firme has signed an exclusive global publishing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), the company announced Monday (Aug. 21). The band’s independent label, Music VIP Entertainment, is also part of the deal. “UMPG has earned a place in regional Mexican as the leading publisher, and this gives us all the […]
Colombian superstar Karol G has officially kicked off her Mañana Será Bonito Tour, her first-ever stadium outing, named after her history-making fourth album. Karol began her trek on Aug. 10 in Las Vegas at the Allegiant Stadium. Then, on Aug. 14, she performed at the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. In Los Angeles, stars […]
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Legendary Mexican band Bronco made a stop in New York’s UBS Arena on Saturday (Aug. 19) to deliver their signature grupera swagger with a heady repertoire that spanned decades. With a storied career that has garnered them an ardent international following, their concert was an electrifying spectacle that blended nostalgia with contemporary energy, a todo […]