While we’ve been seeing Bad Bunny put up monster numbers in the Latin field for a couple years at this point, the latest album from Colombian star KAROL G has seen her take an impressive record for herself – narrowly edging out the ongoing success of SZA’s SOS, MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO is history’s first #1 … Continue reading KAROL G – MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO
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Bad Bunny – Un Verano Sin Ti
Even with the scores of K-pop fans, it’s entirely possible that Puerto Rican experimentalist Bad Bunny is currently the biggest musical brand in the world. Breaking Drake’s monster first-week streaming totals with his fourth solo studio album after a surprise drop, Un Verano Sin Ti is over 80 minutes in length and rarely feels like … Continue reading Bad Bunny – Un Verano Sin Ti
Daddy Yankee – LEGENDADDY
With his last album release nearly a decade ago, it’s impressive that the influence of Puerto Rican reggaeton originator Daddy Yankee still reverberates so strongly throughout the global music culture. The man who coined the term behind the genre that is now so prevalent in the mainstream wherever you go, many up-and-comers still pay their … Continue reading Daddy Yankee – LEGENDADDY
ROSALÍA – MOTOMAMI
To fully put into perspective just how mind-bending Spanish pop experimentalist Rosalía’s highly-celebrated fusions of genre can be: different online articles have compared her latest to the works of The Beastie Boys, Moby, Lorde and Nine Inch Nails. Rosalía herself has said it was inspired by Nina Simone and J. S. Bach, and actual collaborators … Continue reading ROSALÍA – MOTOMAMI
Anuel AA & Ozuna – Los Dioses
Perhaps jumping on the bandwagon kickstarted by Latin trap titans Bad Bunny and J Balvin teaming up on a collaborative project last year, two of the genre’s B-tier names (to North American audiences at least) have elected to do the same. Anuel AA has always been a bit of a lite version of Bad Bunny … Continue reading Anuel AA & Ozuna – Los Dioses
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