In 2017, Spanish song "Despacito" broke worldwide records. It's currently the most viewed music video online, with over five billion views. "I had no idea it would become a worldwide phenomenon," ...
Recent tracks from Bad Bunny and Rauw Alejandro fuse the two styles. "A lot of people play it safe, but this needs to happen more," says producer Caleb Calloway “Everything [in reggaeton] for the last ...
A new wave of Latinx artists – among them, Kelman Duran, DJ Python and Tomasa del Real – are shaping the world-conquering reggaeton sound made famous by Daddy Yankee and J Balvin into radical sounds.
Reggaeton is dead in the same way hip-hop is dead — the popular stuff no longer resembles the gritty, lo-fi ups and downs of the working class, from whose beaters and back-alleys both genres were born ...
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 ...
Nobody really thought that reggaeton would become so popular outside of Latin America and some large Latino communities in the United States. Although some purists and experts still bestow the crown ...