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04 Oct 2023

Here’s Five Things You Didn’t Know About Eladio Carrión | Billboard

Eladio Carrión reveals to Billboard five things you didn’t know about him.

Eladio Carrion:
Hi, everyone! My name is Eladio Carrion and there are five things you didn’t know about me.

No. 1: I was a professional swimmer for many years, but now I hate pools. I won’t get into pools.

No. 2: I like to have some tequila before a show.

No. 3: I’m hooked on Naruto right now. I’m watching Shippuden right now.

No. 4: This is something not a lot of people know. My dog Kemba has a girlfriend right now. Her name is Cali and they are gonna have babies soon. Kemba is my dog, you guys know that. So we’re gonna have a Kemba Jr. somewhere.

I like raisins, but not when they are within a dish, like in a pie or pudding or things like that. I hate it, it’s disgusting. I like them with nothing else.

Those were five things you didn’t know about me.

04 Oct 2023

Mike Bahía and Greeicy Kick Off Latin Music Week With Michelob Ultra | Billboard News

Mike Bahía and Greeicy kicked off Billboard’s Latin Music Week in Miami with the help of Michelob Ultra.

Grisleda Flores
BILLBOARD IS IN TOWN TO TAKE OVER MIAMI AND WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED.

Grisleda Flores
MIKE AND GREEICY TOOK OVER THE FAENA THEATER FOR AN INTIMATE SHOW TO KICK OFF BILLBOARD’S ANNUAL LATIN MUSIC WEEK IN MIAMI THANKS TO MICHELOB ULTRA, THE SUPERIOR LIGHT BEER.

Grisleda Flores
CROONED BY THE DARLING COUPLE, FANS GOT MORE THAN JUST A PERFORMANCE AS MICHELOB ULTRA BROUGHT THE FULL EXPERIENCE TO LIFE, SERVING COLD REFRESHING MICHELOB ULTRA AND PURE GOLD DRINKS FOR ENJOYMENT AND TAKEAWAY SHARABLE PHOTO MOMENTS.

Grisleda Flores
IT WAS THE PERFECT WAY TO KICK OFF THE INCREDIBLE WEEK AHEAD.

03 Oct 2023

The Nicky Jam Rockstar Show Live From Billboard Latin Music Week With JOP | Billboard Latin Music Week

Nicky Jam once again brings his Rockstar Show to Latin Music Week, this year featuring intimate interviews with JOP.

Jesús Ortiz Paz
Back in the day, when we were doing music, if you had a million listeners on Spotify. You were doing it because no Mexican artist had that. And now you drop a song, boom 6 million that’s how you know how the audience got big you hear me?

Nicky Jam
You prefer an English or Spanish?

Jesús Ortiz Paz
Let’s do English man’s do English. Okay, let’s.

Nicky Jam
Okay, let’s do English today I’m ready for English. Um, your story’s amazing. I was studying a little bit of your background and studying about your story. Obviously. I want people I want people to hear from you, obviously. But I want to ask you some questions because it’s amazing that you’re you’re a barber, right?

Nicky Jam
You was a barber?

Jesús Ortiz Paz
Yeah, barber man, I was everything. He was…

Nicky Jam
A barber? And you started as a barber. And then somebody said that they needed somebody to sing on their group. And, and and then you just, that’s when you started right?

Jesús Ortiz Paz
It was something like that. I was cutting some hair. And then the guy was like hey they need a bass player. I knew how to play the bass a little bit, so I pulled up. And then at the end of the practice, I was like, ‘Hey, I sing too.’

Nicky Jam
And so that’s how you started? He didn’t know you will sing.

Watch the full interview above!

03 Oct 2023

The Power of Latin Catalog | Billboard Latin Music Week 2023

Presented by HarbourView

How Latin catalogs are valued, marketed, bought, and sold in a global economy.

Hannah Karp
I am Hannah Karp. I’m the editorial director of Billboard I’m so happy to be here. And over the past few years, we have Billboard have spent a lot of time reporting on some eye popping ly big deals in the Latin music world. Artists from Shakira to Maluma to Ozuna have been selling their catalogs meaning that they’re selling the income streams they received from either their publishing copyrights or their master recording rights or their performance rights, sometimes for tens of millions of dollars. And while the buying frenzy has cooled off a little bit lately, for reasons that we’re going to talk about today, there are still plenty of opportunities for artists and songwriters who want to sell their catalogs and for buyers who might want to buy in. So to explain it all. I’m thrilled to have here with us today. Three of the top dealmakers in this space Sherrese Clarke Soares,, the founder and CEO of HarborView Equity, who has been betting very big on a very diverse portfolio of Latin music, and other genres, since she founded her company just two years ago, and perhaps most notably buying Luis Fonsi’s publishing catalog, which of course includes the right to “Despacito.” We also have Denny Marte, who helped broker that deal and who has become the go to guy the one stop shop. For anybody that’s looking to buy or sell music catalogs in the Latin space. He’s helped to sell catalogs for Nicky jam and Rauw Alejandro, Maluma, just to name a few. And then we have last but not least, Angie Martinez, the real Angie Martinez, who is one of Billboard’s top music lawyers for many years running, and who represents artists looking to sell their catalogue and strike these deals. And she’s also advised on the Fonsi sail to HarborView. And she has a lot of very valuable advice and many warnings, urgent warnings for anyone out there who’s thinking about selling their catalog.

Watch the full panel above!

03 Oct 2023

Drake Gives $50K to Newly Single Fan, What to Know About the New ‘Mean Girls’ Movie & More | Billboard News

Drake gives away $50,000 to a newly single fan at his recent concert in Miami, The 1975’s Matty Healy issues an apology for his racist comments about Ice Spice, Myke Towers tells us five things about him, we fill you in on everything about ‘Mean Girls: The Musical’ movie on ‘Mean Girls’ Day and more!

Tetris Kelly
Drake and Matty Healy go off script at their latest shows. It’s Mean Girls Day and we have a lot to celebrate. I sit down with Eric Nam to talk about his new visual album. We learned five things about Myke Towers and we head back down to Miami for a Latin Music Week update. Welcome back to Billboard News. Tetris here, it’s Tuesday, October 3rd. And let’s jump right into these concert moments that have everyone talking. Drake is giving away money to a newly single fan and Matty Healy is apologizing for, well, everything. It’s an interesting time out on the road and we’re breaking it down. If you’re going through a breakup, make sure you’re friends with Drake. In a viral video, he gives away $50,000 to a fan.

Tetris Kelly
What can I do to get Drake to hook me up? Matty Healy may also need to be hooked up after what seems like a fizzled romance with Taylor Swift and a lot of online haters thrown his way. In a video posted online from the 1975 show at the Hollywood Bowl, he’s apologizing for his actions.

Matty Healy
Because some of my actions have hurt some people. I apologize to those people. I pledge to do better moving forward.

Tetris Kelly
Well, I guess all people can ask for is growth. Meanwhile, I haven’t planned on attending any tours until Mariah in November, but I need to buy some tickets to something ASAP because it is getting interesting out there.

Watch the full video above!

03 Oct 2023

Eric Nam Talks About His New Album ‘House on a Hill,’ His Tour & More | Billboard News

Eric Nam talks to Billboard about the inspiration behind his new album House on a Hill, the 80-date accompanying tour, directing multiple music videos for the album, his journey to becoming an artist, his mental health and self-care app, Mindset, and more!

Eric Nam:
It’s taken years for us to gain the trust of the artists and also their labels to say it’s OK to talk about these things. Hi, this is Eric Nam, and this is Billboard News.

Tetris Kelly:
Welcome to Billboard News! I’m Tetris Kelly and I get to hang out with my friend Eric Nam today. How’s it going?

Eric Nam:
Everything’s good. How are you?

Tetris Kelly:
I cannot complain.

Tetris Kelly:
Let’s talk about this album, House on a Hill. It’s out now and you co-wrote the entire project. So how did that feel, to be so involved in the creation of this album?

Eric Nam:
You know, I think I’ve always been pretty involved in my album. But this one was particularly involved because not only was it the music and the entire songwriting and production process, but it also extended to the music video … the multiple music videos, the short film, photos, everything. And so you know, and I think, naturally, as an ambitious person, I try to elevate and upgrade every album. So how do we beat the last one? That was kind of like my biggest homework for this project.

Tetris Kelly:
But also, you kind of were a bit of a Beyoncé with this album, I will say. Dropping the visuals with the album, I feel like she set the groundwork for you to be great. So tell me how it was to direct music videos with all the songs that sounds like so much work?

Watch the full interview above!

02 Oct 2023

The Rise of Mexican Music Touring | Billboard Latin Music Week 2023

The hottest genre on the charts is the hottest genre on the road. Fuerza Regida’s frontman JOP and Live Nation’s Hans Schafer and Jorge Garcia on how to book, market and sell out Mexican music shows.

JOP:
A lot of struggle. We started from the bottom. We started — I would do my own flyer parties. I’d hire the best groups in the city, then I would close. We would close. I’d hire my own band to close, we started like that, then we had our first hit. We started going into clubs. And then I went to like, from 20 to 50 and then from 50 to 100 and then you know, little by little, we went to a lot of clubs. Nothing the same, you know, the people get extra drunk. That’s where “Otra Peda” came from, you know, at the club it’s a little more crazy, but, um, then we just jumped into the next step. And thank God, it went well for us. Little by little, we are completing our goals and we’re filling stadiums and arenas, thank God!

Griselda Flores:
Well, Jorge, Hans, Jesús Ortiz Paz, frontman of Fuerza Regida, thank you so much for being here with us. I’m so excited.

JOP:
Good morning!

Griselda Flores:
Welcome to Latin Music Week and thank you everyone for being here. Before we get into the conversation, I want to see if we could play some footage from the massive ‘Otra Peda’ tour of Fuerza Regida.


Watch the full video above!

02 Oct 2023

The Art of the Festival | Billboard Latin Music Week 2023

Presented by Viña del Mar

Learn what goes on behind the scenes of crafting and sustaining a successful Latin music festival from the most successful festival producers in the world.

Chris Den Uijl
In the US when we launched Sueños, it was incredible feedback. We did 45,000 people per day, first year, and we had no idea what we were going to do. And we were just blown away. And to go into this year and see that grow. There’s a huge, huge need for consumption. But it’s completely different. We’re learning every single day that we need to challenge ourselves is, is that we don’t need to separate ourselves anymore from saying we have an inclusive Latin festival versus a multi-genre festival.

John Frias
My name is John Frias, the festival is in Los Angeles, and soon to be in Austin. It’s a quintessential festival of Los Angeles. It represents all of the culture that is in LA. It’s very representative of, of the diverse crowd and population and culture in Los Angeles, and just having the time of our lives.

Bruno Del Granado
Excellent. Next to John is my friend Chris, then out from Baja Beach, past suenos Coca Cola flow dynamics la familia on and on. Chris, can you tell us a little bit about your background and some of the festivals your work?

Chris Den Uijl
Hi, everyone, thanks for coming. Um, yeah, so we launched a bunch of different festivals over the last 10 years. But specific to this panel, Baja Beach Fest launched about five years ago. And it’s really just a celebration for Latinos in general, we wanted to create an event that really just like celebrated culture was a platform for the artists to be able to express themselves in like a really united way, but also bring the same type of production that you know, the Anglo festivals that I typically came from brought to the Latin culture so trying to build, you know, one of the strongest kind of footprints for artists to express themselves. And yeah, as time has passed on, we’ve expanded that footprint in two different cities in Mexico, as well as launched a festival called Sueños in Chicago two years ago.

Watch the full video above!

02 Oct 2023

Exactly Who Is Listening to Latin Music? Everyone! | Billboard Latin Music Week 2023

Luminate, the entertainment industry’s most trusted data partner, unveiled its new Latin Music Report exclusively at Billboard Latin Music Week. Never-before-revealed metrics and insights include the growing power of Latin superfans, how and why the genre is expanding to non-Spanish-speaking listeners, the rise of regional Mexican music and the subgenres and artists to watch in the coming months. The findings were presented by Rob Jonas, CEO of Luminate, which has fueled the Billboard charts for over three decades.

Rob Jonas:
Less than two weeks ago, as everybody’s aware, Bad Bunny teased his new song through his WhatsApp channel before releasing it towards the end of August. So I’m Rob Jonas, I’m with Luminate. We’re gonna go through a lot of numbers. But let’s dive in!

So many of you are aware that we publish pretty detailed reports twice a year, our media report and our annual report. We’ve been tracking the rise of Latin music for a very long time now. Many, many big trends we’ve seen in recent quarters, and I’m just gonna pull up some notes here. One sec.

So in our media report, we were talking about, obviously, the continued growth of Latin this year. It’s definitely primed for continued growth in the mainstream, as well as the very specific Latin market. Actually, we’ve seen in the media report, an increase of U.S. listeners who are listening to Spanish music, even though they don’t speak Spanish, myself included. We’ve also been looking very closely at a lot of the superfan data. Superfan is a very big topic right now within the industry.

Watch the full video above!

02 Oct 2023

Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour Coming to Theaters, Taylor Swift Takes Over the NFL & More | Billboard News

You’ll be able to see Beyoncé’s highly anticipated Renaissance Tour in a movie theater near you soon, Taylor Swift took over another NFL game on Sunday with a host of her celebrity friends, Doja Cat earns her second week at No. 1, Metro Boomin is on the cover of Billboard and talking about how he made some of his most famous hits, we run down what you can expect from Latin Music Week in Miami and more!

Tetris Kelly
Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ is hitting theaters. Taylor Swift is becoming an NFL staple. Metro Boomin graces the cover of Billboard. We run down the top 10 of the Hot 100. And we show you what’s on the way at Latin Music Week in Miami.

Happy Monday, people. I’m Tetris Kelly and this is Billboard News. Today, we’re talking about the most famous women on the planet and running down the chart. So let’s kick it off with Queen B!

Beyoncé ends her tour in Kansas City, but she’s bringing the ‘Renaissance’ to movie theaters.

Beyoncé:
“For this tour was to create a place where everyone is free.”

Tetris Kelly
‘Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce’ is hitting theaters on December 1st. B dropped the trailer for the project at the conclusion of the ‘Renaissance World Tour’ and it shows highlights from the tour and behind-the-scenes footage from her shows starting in Stockholm all the way through Kansas City.

Beyoncé
“When I am performing, I am nothing but free.”

Tetris Kelly
This isn’t the first time Beyonce has released a film based on her shows. ‘Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé’ followed her set at Coachella and garnered six Emmy nominations and won B a Grammy, and she gave fans a look behind-the-scenes of her ‘I Am Yours’ show back in 2013 in her ‘Life Is But a Dream’ documentary on HBO. I guess she meant what she said: You are the visuals!

Watch the full video above!