Warner Music Group is very proud of Anitta’s recent achievement in becoming the first Brazilian artist to top Spotify’s global top 50 chart.
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Chartmetric tracks cumbia, trap corrida, guaracha electrónica
We’re fans of the big data dives being done by analytics firms like Chartmetric and Soundcharts. The former company has just published the third in its series of posts tracking the […]
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Latin music increases its share of US recorded music market
US industry body the RIAA has published its latest analysis of revenues for Latin music in the US. It shows that in 2020 it accounted for 5.4% of the overall market, […]
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Spotify’s Baila Reggaeton playlist now has 10m followers
Seven years after its launched, Spotify’s flagship Baila Reggaeton playlist has reached a notable milestone: 10 million followers. Created to showcase the popular reggae/dancehall fusion genre from Latin America, it has […]
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Latin music revenues in US growing faster than overall market
The RIAA has published its annual year-end report on Latin (recorded) music revenues in the US, revealing that they grew by 28% to $554m in 2019. That’s more than double the rate […]
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Carlos Vives launches #NoTeVayasDeTuCasa video-call campaign
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, we’re seeing a growing number of artist marketing campaigns – and even the music that’s at the centre of them – address the crisis. The latest […]
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Sandbox Issue 247: All Triller, No Filler: Music’s next big launchpad?
Lead: Triller is not a TikTok killer – but it is certainly proving to be a hearty contender. At the moment, it is strongest in the US and it skews heavily towards hip-hop as its in-built soundtrack. Its ambitions are, however, more global and the genres it covers will naturally expand as it grows internationally. […]
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Nicky Jam and YouTuber Teala Dunn team up for TikTok video
There is a lot going on in this TikTok video featuring musician Nicky Jam and YouTuber Teala Dunn: a motorbike chase, a fight scene, drones and a daring, tracksuited car-park-clambering escape. Published […]
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Spotify launches a podcast about J Balvin’s rise to stardom
Spotify’s latest music-focused original podcast focuses on reggaeton star J Balvin. The show is called ‘Made in Medellín’, and over six episodes it’ll tell the tale of José Álvaro Osorio Balvin’s […]
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$500m-funded Saban Music Group inks Universal partnership
In July 2019, we reported on the latest new label with grand ambitions for the music industry. In the case of Saban Music Group, those ambitions were backed by $500m of capital, […]
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Rocío Guerrero is Amazon’s first global head of Latin music
Rocío Guerrero has been a driving force behind the growth of Latin music globally, having been instrumental in the launch and growth of Spotify’s ‘Viva Latino’ playlist to its current […]
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YouTube’s top 10 videos of 2019 are a truly global affair
The weakening of Anglo-American pop’s grip on the mainstream is nowhere more apparent than in YouTube’s run down of its most-streamed music videos globally of 2019. Latin America/Spain in general, and Puerto […]