Indholdsfortegnelse for September 14, 2024 i Billboard Magazine

IN EARLY 2018, the future looked bright for corridos singer-songwriter Codiciado. Grupo Codiciado, the band he’d co-founded three years prior, was rapidly rising: After breaking onto Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart in 2017 with “Gente de Accionar,” the act reached No. 8 on the Regional Mexican Albums chart with Miro Lo Que Otros No Miran (I See What Others Don’t). And with its success, the group was helping define the urban style of Rancho Humilde, the Los Angeles-based label known for its modern take on música mexicana. Then, on a cannabis possession charge, Codiciado’s visa was revoked at the U.S.-Mexico border that April. He’d migrated to the States in 2016, working in Southern California’s agricultural fields to support himself as he tried to get his music career off the…

REGIONAL MEXICAN MUSIC continues to surf a wave of unprecedented global popularity and expansion, with names like Peso Pluma, Luis R Conriquez, Edén Muñoz, Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera crowning Billboard’s global and U.S. charts. Yet women in the genre are almost nowhere to be found. Just one female artist-led song appeared among the 50 on Billboard’s year-end Regional Mexican Airplay Songs chart: Yuridia and Angela Aguilar’s “Qué Agonía.” And among the regional Mexican acts dominating the Hot Latin Songs chart, only one female name comes up: pop singer Kenia Os as a guest on Peso Pluma’s “Tommy & Pamela.” Behind the scenes, it’s a different story entirely. In what had long been a world of male dominance in the C-suite of música mexicana, women are now powerhouses. María…

Streaming has carried Latin music to the top of the Billboard charts, but the magazine covered it for more than 100 years before Bad Bunny hopped to No. 1. From genre architects like Xavier Cugat to current hit-makers such as Karol G, and from “Bésame Mucho” to “Despacito,” the many subgenres of Latin music have for over a century added flavor to U.S. airwaves — and the pages of Billboard. What’s living without La Vida Loca? LINGO DUO “A great artist most certainly,” raved the Aug. 24, 1926, Billboard about Raquel Meller, a Spanish-born Broadway headliner. “These are folk songs, street ballads of her Barcelona.... For all the talk of not needing to know the language to understand there is frantic searching of librettos to appreciate” it. Billboard got…

“Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” by Karol G (above) banks an eighth week at No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs and ties the record reign for a female soloist this decade, first set by Kali Uchis’ “Telepatía,” whose run atop the chart began in May 2021. Overall in the 2020s, “Dákiti” by Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez (now billed as Jhayco) leads with 27 weeks at No. 1, beginning in November 2020, followed by Farruko’s “Pepas” (26 weeks, starting in August 2021). “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” drew 11.1 million airplay audience impressions and 10.4 million official streams in the United States Aug. 30-Sept. 5, according to Luminate. In July, the track became Karol G’s ninth No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs. She has only led for longer stretches…

AS THE CALIFORNIA SUNSET paints the sky bright orange on a scorching August day, a caravan of luxury SUVs makes its way across the dirt roads outside Los Angeles that lead to Pico Rivera Sports Arena. When they arrive, the door of one pristine white Mercedes-Benz G-Class opens and 28-year-old Luis R Conriquez emerges. Clad in black jeans; a white, black and yellow-patterned button-down shirt; black boots; and a suede tejana adorned with feathers, he fits right in with the Instagram-ready aesthetic of the largely millennial crowd gathered here. The heavy silver chain resting on his chest is the only obvious signifier that Conriquez isn’t just another attendee of the inaugural Belicolandia: The singer-songwriter is one of today’s biggest corridos bélicos stars, and the thousands assembled here will soon…

Tito Double P’s debut album, Incómodo, holds at its No. 2 high on Top Latin Albums with 23,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States Aug. 30-Sept. 5, according to Luminate, with its 21 tracks totaling 33.3 million streams. A week earlier, the project launched with 26,000 units (translating to 36.1 million streams for its songs). “I’m so honored,” the Mexican singer-songwriter told Billboard. “I didn’t expect this but I’m so grateful that the fans are embracing my project like this.” The album was released on Double P Records, which Peso Pluma and George Prajin co-founded in 2023. “Peso really pushed Tito to take the leap from composer to artist,” Prajin said. Peso, in turn, praised Tito, saying, “He worked really hard to compile every track and it…

WHEN ALEJANDRO FERNÁNDEZ takes the stage Sept. 14-15 at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena, it will mark his record 22nd year performing at one of the hottest music events in Sin City. But the event he has been playing for more than two decades isn’t a recurring casino or club residency — it’s Fiestas Patrias, the ever-growing weekend of programming celebrating El Grito de Dolores (when Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla’s call to arms ignited the Mexican War of Independence in 1810) and Mexican Independence Day, which are officially celebrated Sept. 15 and 16, respectively. “Twenty-four years ago, I began what has become a tradition of celebrating Fiestas Patrias with the Latino community in Las Vegas,” the Mexican superstar tells Billboard. “I am proud to say it is…

ON A BALMY MAY evening in 2023, the Glasshouse — a neon-lit venue six stories above the Hudson River in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood — buzzed with excitement. A music-industry crowd of hundreds had gathered for a private Telemundo Upfront event and its featured performance by Nicky Jam. And from the moment the seminal reggaetón star stepped onstage, clad in his signature baseball cap and an athletic Amiri ensemble beneath a wool trench coat, he showcased why he’s not just part of the genre’s history but also a vital architect of its present and future. As Nicky sang 2003’s “Yo No Soy Tu Marido,” a bold attendee leapt onstage to dance alongside him. “Oh, ella quiere perrear!” (“She wants to twerk!”) he exclaimed, happily engaging with his unexpected partner…