Reggaeton: Last News

Anyone saying it’s a slow week for new music releases clearly isn’t paying enough attention to their left-field pop girlies. You have Madison Beer (surprisingly good), Addison Rae (good but no one’s surprised), and Reneé Rapp (it is what it it is).

Kali Uchis has shared her first new single since the release of her third studio LP, Red Moon In Venus, in March. “Muñekita,” a mostly Spanish-language track featuring Dominican dembow scene leader El Alfa and JT of City Girls fame, is out today.

Karol G has made history by becoming the first Latin female artist to headline the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago.No Latina artist has ever headlined the famous music festival since its inception back in 1991. The first Latino artist to headline the event was J Balvin back in 2019.

La Cruz makes reggaeton for the gay community. His songs bring a queer sensibility to a genre that has been dominated by heterosexual men.

Latin GRAMMY award-winning Puerto Rican recording artist and producer Tainy has released another single from his forthcoming debut album, DATA. "LA BABY" features a gang of reggaeton giants Daddy Yankee, Feid, and Sech.

Rauw Alejandro has dropped "Baby Hello," a taste of his upcoming album PLAYA SATURNO. The song was produced by Argentina's Bizarrap, who already collabed with Alejandro earlier this week for "BZRP Music Session #56." It also features a music video directed by Martin Seipel and el Zorro, which has the reggaeton futurist playing his signature sexual extraterrestrial.

Cardi B has been rumoured to be releasing a huge summer collaborative single Shakira in the coming months.In June 2022, the Grammy Award-winning rapper released the Tay Keith-produced ‘Hot Shit’ which featured Kanye West and Lil Durk, and fans have aptly waited for her follow-up.An upcoming single with the Columbian singer-songwriter hasn’t been formally announced, but the rumours of the Shakira collab started after a track titled ‘Estoy Lamida’ was found on the BMI record label’s website. The song is registered under both Cardi  B and Shakira’s names and the database is where artists and their record labels register upcoming music in preparation for a release.However, pop fan Twitter account ThePopStuff tweeted this weekend a song called ‘Tu Pérdida’ would be on the way – and was in fact a collaboration between the ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ singer and Nicki Minaj.  However, when one fan checked the BMI ID of the song, they found the rumoured Cardi B collaboration instead.

Bad Bunny has shared a new Jersey Club-style song called "Where She Goes" along with music video featuring a number of big name cameo appearances. The video, which can be seen below, includes a quick shot of Frank Ocean riding on the back of a motorcycle.

Coachella 2023 Weekend 2 kicks off today (April 21), with Bad Bunny headlining and many more FADER favorites filling out the undercard: Gorillaz, Burna Boy, Kaytranada, Pusha T, Metro Boomin, Karol G, and others. Where last Friday’s schedule featured a short-notice set from a newly reunited Blink-182, Weekend 2 will see them taking the headlining role on Sunday, replacing Frank Ocean after he bowed out of Coachella 2023’s closing set following leg injuries he sustained on festival grounds before Weekend 1 (per his publicist).

The Library of Congress has added 25 recordings added to the National Recording Registry. The new additions comprise songs and albums whose release dates range from 1907 to 2012.

Bad Bunny fans after more than 2,000 ticketholders were denied entry to a Mexico City concert last year.Bad Bunny was performing at the Azteca Stadium on December 9 when thousands of fans with valid tickets were turned away. Ticketmaster said that it was due to failures in its ticket reading system [via IQ].Ticketmaster Mexico was initially facing a fine of up to 10 per cent of its yearly revenue by the Mexican government.

Carliz De La Cruz Hernández, the former partner of Bad Bunny, is suing the Puerto Rican artist over the rights to voice recordings used in his music. Assosciated Press reports that De La Cruz is mounting legal action over her “Bad Bunny, baby” voice memo, which has appeared on numerous songs by the hugely popular star. She is seeking $40 million in damages.

Bad Bunny has shared a music video for “Tití Me Preguntó,” a track from his fourth solo studio album, Un Verano Sin Ti. The Stillz-directed visual treatment finds the reggaeton star delivering the track — a tongue-in-cheek apology for having too many girlfriends — across a tapestry of New York settings, from the block to the bodega to the barber shop, before he’s kidnapped and spirited away to a rural estate to marry a woman who descends from the clouds in a flowing bridal gown.

Raphy Pina, founder of the world’s most successful reggaeton label, Pina Records, received a 41-month prison sentence Tuesday, Billboard reports and a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Puerto Rico, confirms. The ruling comes after Pina’s December conviction for possession of an automatic weapon and possession of firearms by a previously convicted felon.

Bad Bunny has shared the release date for his next studio LP. Un Verano Sin Ti, which follows 2020's El Último Tour Del Mundo as the reggaeton megastar's sixth album in less than four years, drops May 6 via Rimas Music.

Bad Bunny has announced details of his sixth studio album via an advert for a supercar.Earlier this week (April 21), the reggaeton star posted an ad for a Bugatti Chiron 110, released in 2019 to mark the 110th anniversary of the French car maker.The ad, which appears in Clasificados Online, was posted under the superstar’s real name, Benito A. Martinez Ocasio.

Production issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are forcing J Balvin to reschedule his upcoming North American tour, Billboard reports. The reggaeton star, who performed the songs “Qué Más Pues?” with María Becerra and ”In da Getto” at the 2022 Grammys earlier this month, made the announcement Tuesday on his Instagram page.

In February, rising reggaeton star Rauw Alejandro released TRAP CAKE VOL. 2, a nine-track EP that features contributions from Future, Rvssian, Ty Dolla $ign, Shenseea, and Ankhal.

Reggaeton icon Daddy Yankee has confirmed that his upcoming album will be his last.In a video released on Sunday night (March 20) Daddy Yankee, whose real name is Ramón Ayala, confirmed his imminent retirement from music alongside a farewell tour.Speaking in Spanish (and translated by Rolling Stone) Ayala said: “This career has been a marathon. I finally see the end-goal.

Rauw Alejandro's 2019 debut EP, Trap Cake Vol. 1, marked his arrival to the major leagues of reggaeton.

On the heels of his hometown show in Puerto Rico last month, Bad Bunny has announced his first-ever run of stadium shows around the world. "Bad Bunny: The World's Hottest Tour" will take the reggaeton artist across the United States in August and September of this year with dates in Latin America beginning in October.