This Latinx Heritage Month, POPSUGAR is celebrating the history and rise of reggaeton with Ritmo. Reggaeton has brought Latinx culture to the forefront globally and has left an indelible mark on music ...
The post 10 Reggaeton Albums Every Music Fan Should Own appeared first on Consequence of Sound. On the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, there’s a reggaeton album by Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny ...
Reggaeton has been one of the biggest genres in music globally for 20 years. In truth, there probably should have been a reggaeton-focused television series ages ago, but Netflix’s Neon fills the gap ...
Daddy Yankee, Karol G and dozens of other artists are asking a federal judge to toss out a sprawling copyright lawsuit that claims “Despacito” and hundreds of other reggaeton tracks infringed a single ...
From Carín León to Netón Vega, see the list below. By Jessica Roiz Assistant Editor, Latin Who would’ve ever thought — a Regional Mexican artist doing reggaetón music? But it works. Earlier this year, ...
LAS VEGAS — Traditional reggaeton music embraces the distinctive rhythm of a start-stop addictive beat that, for the most part, never changes. But is that enough to create a global hit like Daddy ...
Then there’s Mexican American dynamo Becky G, who scored a slot at Coachella in April, bringing out Natti Natasha and Peso Pluma as special guests. Her biting breakup anthem “Mamiii,” a collaboration ...
Decades before Farruko became one of Puerto Rico’s stand-out reggaeton MCs, the 30-year-old was a huge fan of Eurodance artists like Alice Deejay. “That was my childhood,” confesses Farruko of the ...
With hits like “Despacito” and “Mi Gente,” reggaeton has finally gone mainstream (translation: White people have discovered it). Although people around the world are falling in love with the music ...
I first heard the infectious dembow rhythm that undergirds every reggaeton song at my eighth-grade back-to-school dance. A mosh pit of suburban teens was trying in earnest to move their hips to the ...
One of the most important narratives in contemporary pop has been the emergence of Latin music as a potent commercial force in the United States. Between 2016 and 2017, the number of Spanish-language ...
As fans around the globe have shown, Latin urban music is here to stay. But it's not always obvious from the roster at the big mainstream award shows. For Billboard’s Leila Cobo, that's a reason to ...