Featherweight’s ‘Genesis’ Album Takes Billboard By Storm, Dethroning Bad Bunny: A Historic Milestone for Latino Artists

2023-07-05 23:05:17

With the release of ‘Genesis’, Featherweight achieved what no other Latino or Mexican artist had done in the last year: beat Bad Bunny. And it is not about statements or a war for popularity, but about taking the crown from the Puerto Rican as the singer with the most songs in the Billboard ranking.

According to the information in the chart itself, Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija He took a big step and broke into great success with this third studio album.

The throne that the Mexican label now has with bellicose corridos is on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs list in the United States. Title that at least until the end of June belonged to Bad Bunny and her overwhelming success ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’.

SINGLES HARVEST

The latest album also earns ‘DoubleP’ the first number 1 on any Billboard album chart. With 101.8 million streams, the 17-track set boasts the largest streaming week ever for a regional Mexican album.

As a result of Génesis’ strong streaming performance, 10 of its songs debut on the Hot Latin Songs chart, which combines airplay, radio play and sales to rank the 50 most popular Latin songs on North American soil.

Since Featherweight’s inaugural entry on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart in April 2022, the regional Mexican giant has placed a total of 31 songs on the chart, including his collaboration with Eslabon Armado, ‘Ella Baila Sola,’ which leads the poll in its 13th week and counting. The song simultaneously dominated the Billboard Global 200 for six weeks, the most for a Spanish-language song. In addition, the pair recorded an all-time top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 all-genre chart, becoming the first regional Mexican top 10 hit in the chart’s 64-year history.

ADDING AND RINGING

Returning to Hot Latin Songs, two other songs released on the album ‘Génesis’ begin to go viral and accumulate success: ‘Lady Gaga’, which she sings with Gabito Ballesteros and Junior H, at number 6, and the song ‘VVS ‘, with Edgardo Nuñez and Los Dareyes de La Sierra, which completes the top 10 of the list at number 10.

In addition to his impressive achievements this week, Featherweight debuts seven songs on the Hot 100. With newcomers, he has a total of 14 simultaneous titles on the chart across all genres, the most for a regional Mexican artist.

¿Y A SPOTIFY?

In the first days of July it was revealed that the most listened to artist is Taylor Swift, who ousted Featherweight, the singer who ranked last month thanks to the song ‘Ella Baila Sola’ and her album ‘Génesis’, which it also managed to place itself in the first position of the global top of Spotify.

Taylor Swift is in the first place of the most listened to artists on Spotify, followed by Bad Bunny and Featherweight.

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On the Weekly Top Songs Global, Featherweight is in first, third and ninth place. In first place is her song ‘Ella Baila Sola’, which reached 32,351,578 streams; in the other they are ‘La Bebe (Remix)’ and in the last one ‘Lady Gaga’.

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