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Los Angeles Times
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Bad Bunny, Fuerza Regida make Latin music history on the Billboard 200
Latin music reigns supreme in los Estados Unidos. Bad Bunny and Fuerza Regida just made history for Spanish-language music. As of this week, the Puerto Rican artist's 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' and the San Bernardino group's '111XPANTIA' became the first-ever Spanish-language albums to simultaneously sit at Nos. 1 and 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Fuerza Regida's album, which dropped May 2, debuted in the No. 2 spot on the chart. According to Billboard, it became the highest-charting música regional album and Spanish-language album by a group or duo. Bad Bunny's wide-spanning love letter to his beloved Puerto Rico — 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' — regained the top spot in the charts after he released a vinyl edition of the album. It was previously sitting in the seventh position on the Billboard 200 and has lingered in the top 10 since it debuted on Jan. 5. Bad Bunny announced a 23-date stadium tour in support of the album that will kick off Nov. 21 in the Dominican Republic, followed by shows in Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Argentina. There are currently no U.S. dates scheduled for the tour. '111XPANTIA,' Fuerza Regida's ninth studio album, released under Rancho Humilde and Street Mob Records, marks the group's return to its original corrido style, in contrast to its last album, 2024's 'Pero No Te Enamores,' which explored more electronically-geared genres like Jersey club, drill and house music. The album title itself, '111XPANTIA,' is made up of two parts: the first is a palindrome, '111,' which some call an 'angel number,' or a sign of luck; the second part stems from the Nahuatl word for manifestation, 'ixpantia.' 'The meaning of this album is to manifest an idea, to think your dreams into reality and to prove something through the power of the mind and the concept of the law of attraction,' said Fuerza Regida frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz, a.k.a. JOP, in a press release.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bad Bunny's ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos' Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 After Vinyl Release
Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, jumping 7-1 on the May 17-dated chart, following the set's release on vinyl. It's the fourth total week atop the list for the Spanish-language project, which spent three consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Jan. 25-Feb. 8-dated charts. In the tracking week ending May 8, Debí Tirar Más Fotos earned 84,500 equivalent album units (up 123%) in the United States, with more than half of the sum driven by vinyl purchases, according to Luminate. It's a historic week for Latin music, as Fuerza Regida — Billboard's year-end top duo/group in both 2024 and 2023 — achieves its first top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 with the band's 111XPANTIA bowing at No. 2. In turn, for the first time in the 69-year history of the all-genre chart, Spanish-language albums are Nos. 1 and 2 at the same time. Further, 111XPANTIA marks the highest-charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group, and the highest-charting regional Mexican music album. More from Billboard Bad Bunny Announces Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour: Here Are the Dates John Legend Says He's Shocked by Ye's 'Descent' Into 'Antisemitism' and 'Anti-Blackness' Kelly Clarkson Tells Fans She's 'Bummed' Her Talk Show Stops Her From Touring During NJ Concert Plus, rapper Key Glock notches his fourth top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as Glockaveli premieres at No. 8. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 17, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard's website on May 13. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Of Debí Tirar Más Fotos' 84,500 equivalent album units earned in the week ending May 8, album sales — essentially all vinyl — comprise a little over 48,000 (up 15,099%, it reenters Top Album Sales for its first week at No. 1), SEA units comprise just over 36,000 (down 3%, equaling 50.27 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs; it falls 5-6 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise under 500 units (down 8%). The album's 48,000 sold marks the largest single-week sales for a Latin music album in nearly six years, since Santana's Africa Speaks sold 57,000 copies in its first week (June 22, 2019-dated chart), driven by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer for the act's then-upcoming tour. Such offers are no longer chart-eligible. Debí Tirar Más Fotos surges back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 after its vinyl shipments to customers impacted the tracking week — to the tune of nearly 48,000 copies. That's the largest sales week for a Latin album on vinyl in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991). It surpasses the previous record, held by the opening week of Kali Uchis' Orquídeas (20,000 sold across seven variants; on the Jan. 27, 2024-dated chart). Debí Tirar Más Fotos' lone vinyl edition — on blue-colored double-vinyl in a gatefold package — was sold exclusively via Bad Bunny's official webstore for $29.98. It went up for pre-order in early February and was then (per the store) 'estimated to ship on/around the end of April 2025.' The vinyl is currently sold out on the artist's webstore, and it has not been announced if the vinyl will be restocked, or sold through any other seller. (The blue-colored vinyl is the only physical format on which the set has been released. It has yet to be issued on CD or any other physical format, and has only been available to purchase as a download.) Since Debí Tirar Más Fotos debuted on the Jan. 18-dated Billboard 200 (at No. 2), it has yet to leave the top 10 after 18 weeks, with its chart fortunes largely fueled by continued strong streaming of its songs. At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Fuerza Regida debuts with its highest-charting album ever, and first top 10, as 111XPANTIA arrives with 76,000 equivalent album units earned — the band's best week ever by units. The set also becomes the highest-charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group (surpassing the No. 4 peak of Maná's Amar Es Combatir in 2006), and for a regional Mexican music album (higher than the No. 3 peak of Peso Pluma's Génesis in 2023). 111XPANTIA also earns the largest week, by units, for any Spanish-language album by a duo or group, and by a regional Mexican album, since the chart began ranking by units in December 2014. The previous high, in that span of time, for a Spanish language album by a duo or group was Santana's Africa Speaks (57,000 in its opening week, in 2019), while the previous high for a regional Mexican title was Génesis (73,000 in its debut frame in 2023). Of the 76,000 units earned by 111XPANTIA in its opening week, album sales comprise 39,000 (the band's best sales week ever, and the biggest sales week for a regional Mexican album in the modern era; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 37,000 (equaling 50.44 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs; it debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. With 39,000 copies sold, 111XPANTIA surpasses the previous largest sales week for a regional Mexican title, when Selena's Amor Prohibido sold 36,000 copies on the chart dated May 6, 1995, in the wake of her death in March of that year. 111XPANTIA was released on May 2 as a 12-song standard album, widely available as a digital download for purchase and via streaming services. On May 5, a deluxe edition of the set, with three bonus tracks, was issued via download services and streamers. The band's official webstore carried the only physical format editions of the album: the 12-song version on four color vinyl variants, a standard CD, a signed CD (by the group's lead singer, Jesús Ortíz Paz) and four deluxe boxed sets (two containing a branded T-shirt and a signed CD, two with a branded hat and a signed CD). The new album was preceded by its hit single 'Por Esos Ojos,' which reached No. 5 on Hot Latin Songs (March 1 chart), No. 3 on Hot Regional Mexican Songs (May 10), No. 5 on Latin Streaming Songs (March 1) and No. 79 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart (March 15). 111XPANTIA is the sixth charting effort on the Billboard 200 for Fuerza Regida, and the third to reach the top 40 (after PERO NO TE ENAMORES, No. 25 in 2024; and Pa las Baby's y Belikeada, No. 14 in 2023). The group's success has also extended to the Hot 100, where the act charted 13 song entries before the new album dropped. Prior to the new album's release, the group also logged eight top 10s (with one No. 1) on the Top Latin Albums chart, and 10 top 10s (with five No. 1s) on the Regional Mexican Albums chart. Fuerza Regida's success on the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 over the past few years has been so significant that the act finished 2024 as the top duo/group artist of the year — among all genres — for the second year in a row. In 2023, the act made history when it became the year's top duo/group — the first time an act that primarily records in Spanish had ever achieved the feat. (Latin and regional Mexican albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard's Top Latin Albums and Top Regional Mexican Albums charts, respectively.) Nos. 2-7 on the latest Billboard 200 are all former chart-toppers. SZA's SOS slips 2-3 (52,000 equivalent album units, though up 1%), Morgan Wallen's One Thing at a Time is steady at No. 4 (46,000; down less than 1%), Kendrick Lamar's GNX dips 3-5 (45,000; down 7%), Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet falls 5-6 (41,000; down 6%) and PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake's $ome $exy $ongs 4 U descends 6-7 (40,000; down 7%). Key Glock lands his fourth top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 at Glockaveli debuts at No. 8 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 28,000 (equaling 37.28 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs; it debuts at No. 12 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 6,000 (it enters at No. 9 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Glockaveli was released on May 2 as a standard 18-song album, widely available as a digital download to purchase and via streaming services. The standard set was also available on CD (both signed and unsigned), vinyl (standard, color vinyl and signed color vinyl) and a deluxe boxed set containing a branded T-shirt and a CD. A deluxe edition of the album, with three bonus tracks, dropped mid-week — first via the artist's webstore on May 4, and then wide the following day to general download services and streamers. Rounding out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 are Morgan Wallen's former leader Dangerous: The Double Album (rising 10-9 with 33,500 equivalent album units; up 1%) and Shaboozey's Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going (falling 8-10 with 32,000; down 8%). Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Four Decades of 'Madonna': A Look Back at the Queen of Pop's Debut Album on the Charts Chart Rewind: In 1990, Madonna Was in 'Vogue' Atop the Hot 100
Los Angeles Times
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Fuerza Regida beholds the power of manifestation in new album ‘111XPANTIA'
The members of Fuerza Regida say they manifested their dreams of becoming the hardest-working act in música mexicana. Now, a decade into their career, the multiplatinum corrido stars are marking the milestone with the release of their most spiritually minded album yet, '111XPANTIA.' Recorded in the band's hometown of San Bernardino, the 12-track LP — condensed from a total of 40 written songs — dives further into the quintet's Mexican heritage, encapsulating the group's hustle, vision and evolution over the course of its long career. 'We put a lot of thought into it, a lot of hours in the studio,' says Jesús Ortiz Paz, a.k.a. JOP, frontman of Fuerza Regida. 'Can't wait to hear what the fans think, there's something for everyone.' The band's ninth studio album, released under Rancho Humilde and Street Mob, marks Fuerza Regida's return to its original corrido style, in contrast to its last album, 2024's 'Pero No Te Enamores,' which explored more electronically geared genres like Jersey club, drill and house music. 'The meaning of this album is to manifest an idea, to think your dreams into reality and to prove something through the power of the mind and the concept of the law of attraction,' said JOP in the press release. The album title itself, '111XPANTIA,' is made up of two parts: the first is a palindrome, '111,' which some regard as an 'angel number,' or a lucky sign; the second is the Nahuatl word for manifestation, 'ixpantia.' The musicians of Fuerza Regida, who got their start in the business by playing cover songs at local parties in San Bernardino, know a thing or two about the law of attraction. After years spent covering legacy acts like Bobby Pulido and Los Humildes, Fuerza Regida's 2018 hit single, 'Radicamos en South Central,' fueled its momentum in the Latin music industry. In the last three years, four of the group's albums have graced the Billboard 200 chart. Although Fuerza Regida is known for its flashy public performances, the band has taken a low-key approach to the rollout of its latest LP, with the exception of the lead single, 'Por Esos Ojos.' The love ballad, which JOP sings a capella, was first performed at Paris Fashion Week earlier this year during KidSuper's runway show. The song later peaked at No. 79 on the Billboard 100. There were, however, some surprise lead-ups to the release of '111XPANTIA,' including a skywritten message over the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Easter egg hunts across select California malls. Bandleader JOP also went undercover, dressed as an elderly man, to try and sell the new CD for $1 at gas stations in Southern California. To further celebrate the album's release, Fuerza Regida will host a special pop-up at the Complex LA storefront (433 N. Fairfax Ave.) from May 2 to 4, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. It's the first Latin band to work with the popular streetwear and media enterprise. '111XPANTIA' is available on all streaming platforms, CD and vinyl.
