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Diego Toro Celebrates Two Years of Toro Music Group With Yotuel Romero Signing
Below, Toro elaborates on the company’s anniversary, growing success and plans for 2021. What was the biggest life lesson working at Sony that you walked away with? It is very difficult to mention a single teaching in a lifetime of experiences with music, songs, artists and colleagues. But the “opportunity” that Sony gave me to demonstrate with passion, to think “outside the box,” to believe that you can break schemes, trusting music production from the heart, and being loyal to your principles and values are an inspiring route that will always pay off. What inspired you to launch your own marketing and management company two years ago? In a company, you live the musical stages of the artists, the releases, campaigns, and strategies according to the season. But in managem...
Shakira’s Bouncy ‘Girl Like Me’ Moves Go Viral on TikTok: See the Best Challenge Videos
If you’ve been trying to perfect your Shakira “Girl Like Me” choreography — you know, that part where she’s wearing the Jane Fonda-inspired workout outfit — you’re not alone. In fact, her dance moves have sparked a challenge on TikTok, with thousands of users dancing along to the infectious new Black Eyed Peas and Shakira song, trying to imitate the Colombian’s killer moves. The challenge kicked off right after the four-minute music video dropped on Friday. To date, the clip has racked up nearly 40 million views. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards...
Marco ‘Mag’ Borrero Debuts at No. 1 on Hot 100 Producers Chart, Thanks to Bad Bunny Hits
Here’s a look at all seven of Mag’s production credits on the Hot 100. Rank, Artist Billing, Title (producers in addition to Mag)No. 60, “Te Mudaste” (Mr. Naisgai, Caleb Calloway)No. 64, “Yo Visto Asi”No. 72, “Haciendo Que Me Amas”No. 74, “Te Deseo Lo Mejor”No. 78, “Booker T”No. 87, “Maldita Pobreza”No. 94, “La Droga” (M. De La Cruz) Bad Bunny himself lands 11 songs on the Hot 100, the most among all artists this week. Thanks to his co-writing credits on each track, he ranks at No. 2 on Hot 100 Songwriters. Mag also tops the Latin Producers chart for the first time, thanks to nine entries (all by Bad Bunny) on the Hot Latin Songs chart. Bad Bunny concurrently leads Latin Songwriters for a record...
Shakira Crowned Google’s Most-Searched Artist of 2020: See Full List
Google has unveiled its Year in Search List, revealing all of the trends of 2020 including music, movies, sports teams, and more. In the U.S, Shakira tops the most-searched artist and band list, followed by August Alsina, Adele, Doja Cat, Grimes, Van Halen, Lizzo, Tamar Braxton, Quando Rondo, and Tory Lanez. Shak is also the No. 7 most-searched person of the year, just above Tom Brady, Kanye West, and Vanessa Bryant. But the Latina superstar, who’s currently making the rounds with the Black Eyed Peas-assisted “Girl Like Me” single, is not the only Colombiana on the list. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn r...
Five Burning Questions: Bad Bunny Makes History With His No. 1 Album Debut
1. Bad Bunny’s El Último Tour del Mundo has become the first all-Spanish album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200. On a scale of 1-10, how significant is that specific accomplishment? Andrew Unterberger: Let’s say a 7.5. The accomplishment itself is of course major, but it’s hard to rate it as an eight or higher because it’s not even a real new peak for Bad Bunny, let alone all of Latin pop — his YHLQMDLG album actually put up much better first-week numbers (179,000 equivalent album units to 116,000 for El Último), but just had the misfortune of debuting the same week that Lil Baby’s My Turn juggernaut bowed at No. 1. It’s one for the record books, no doubt, but it just shows how major Latin pop in general, and Bad Bunny in particular, ha...
Bad Bunny Lands Fifth No. 1 on Top Latin Albums With ‘El Último Tour del Mundo’
El Último Tour del Mundo, which dropped Thursday, Nov. 26 at 11 p.m. ET via Rimas, opened at No. 20 (Dec. 5-dated survey) after just one hour of activity (the sales and streaming tracking week for the Top Latin Albums chart runs Friday through Thursday each week). As previously reported, El Último Tour del Mundo earned Bad Bunny his first No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart and made history as the first all-Spanish album to claim a spot atop the tally since its inception in August 1963. On Top Latin Albums, with 116,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 3, according to Nielsen Music/ MRC Data, El Último Tour del Mundo nabs the second biggest week in terms of overall units for a Latin release since Billboard began ...
Jose Feliciano Delivers 50th Anniversary Performance of ‘Feliz Navidad’ on ‘Fallon’: Watch
Recorded in 1970 by Puerto Rican singer and songwriter José Feliciano, “Feliz Navidad” is a marvel in many ways. “It just came to me; there’s no rhyme or reason,” he recently told Billboard. “The first lyric came to me, then I put the English lyric into it, not realizing I had made it the only bilingual Christmas song ever in the world. I created a monster.” Feliciano stopped by The Tonight Show on Monday (Dec. 7) to perform his enduring hit. Watch below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
What Bad Bunny’s No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Means to Latin Music
The feat being unprecedented come as a surprise to many. Didn’t J.Lo and Shakira and Ricky Martin and other big Latin names have No. 1s on the chart before? They did, of course — but never with Spanish-language albums. Selena’s Dreaming of You, released just a few months after her death in 1995, debuted at No. 1, but it featured five tracks in English, six in Spanish and two in both, in part because Selena died before finishing what was conceived as a predominantly English album. In 1999, Ricky Martin debuted at No. 1 with his dazzling self-titled “crossover” set, which included No. 1 hit “Livin La Vida Loca” in both languages, plus three other Spanish-language versions of songs in English. Jennifer López’s sophomore album, J.Lo, also debuted at No. 1 in February 2021; it included th...
Mariah Carey’s ‘Oh Santa!’ Collab With Ariana Grande & Jennifer Hudson Is This Week’s Fan Favorite New Music
The holiday team-up, which is featured in Carey’s Magical Christmas Special, does an impressive job of balancing three larger-than-life personalities in a little over three minutes, giving each ample time in the spotlight in between harmonies. “I wrote ‘Oh Santa!’ for my album Merry Christmas II You, which was sort of the follow-up to my first Christmas album — we have several — and so I think it was all about the actual event, of course, of doing ‘Oh Santa!’ with Jennifer and Ari, but it was also like, how do I see this as a producer?” Carey previously told Billboard of the collaboration. “How do I see these vocals having different textures, what are they? Because originally, I was blending with myself, which that&...
5 Uplifting Moments in Latin Music This Week (December 5)
Daddy Yankee’s “DY2K20” Daddy Yankee kicked off the holiday season by gifting his fans the release of DY2K20, a three-part series of his 12 sold-out Con Calma Pal’ Choli shows. The concert series took place in Puerto Rico’s Coliseo in San Juan spanned between Dec. 5 – 29, 2019. DY2K20 is now available on YouTube and all audio streaming platforms, featuring never-before-seen footage from his last concert series before the pandemic. The first part of the series is now available here with the second and third part becoming available on Dec. 14 and 21, respectively. Selena: The Series The highly awaited Selena: The Series finally made its way to Netflix on Friday (Dec. 4). Starring Chris...
Bad Bunny & Daddy Yankee’s ‘La Santa’ Tops Latin Airplay Chart
With the jump, Daddy Yankee breaks away from a tie with Ozuna and becomes the act with the third-most leaders since the chart’s inception in 1994, with 22. Bad Bunny, meanwhile, clocks his 12th No. 1, which dates back to his featured role in Becky G’s “Mayores,” his first entry and first leader in February 2018. Meanwhile Bad Bunny’s latest single “Dákiti,” with Jhay Cortez, enters Latin Airplay’s top 10 for the first time at No. 8 (up six spots from is previous peak of No. 14), thanks to a 33% increase in audience, to 7 million. While Bad Bunny collects his 17th top 10, Cortez secures his second. “Dákiti” is Bad Bunny’s first single from El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo, his third studio album released in 2020. The set dropped Thursday, ...
David Bisbal and Carrie Underwood Go Bilingual In New ‘Tears of Gold:’ Watch The Premiere
While bilingual collabs between Latin and mainstream artists are no longer novel, Latin pop paired with country voice is definitely not something you hear every day. Add to that two powerful voices—David Bisbal and Carrie Underwood—and that’s something very novel indeed. “Tears of Gold,” the new single that brings together the two superstars from different continents (Bisbal is from Spain), is a soaring, uptempo pop ballad. It’s vintage Bisbal, who’s always had a flair for the dramatic. When Bisbal first heard the demo, “I immediately knew it was an amazing track that needed a special talent, and voice, to work with me on a duet,” he explains. “As an artist and vocalist, I listen to a lot of songs, determine the style and sound, and am involved in the process of my collab...
