![]() As of 2018 “Despacito” had broken seven Guinness World Records and sold more than 11 million records.ĭaddy Yankee has won numerous international awards, and is one of the most recognized reggaeton artists within the industry. The English remix featuring Justin Bieber is the longest reigning number one song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 at 16 consecutive weeks. It reached number one on nearly every Latin Billboard chart and is the most-watched YouTube video ever with more than 6.7 billion views as of February 2020. His 2017 collaboration with Puerto Rican pop singer Luis Fonsi “Despacito” was even more successful. It won Billboard’s “Reggaeton Album of the Year” in 2005 and made history as the top-selling Latin Music album of the decade for 2000-2009. His 2004 album Barrio Fino enjoyed international success. His early music was successful in Puerto Rico, but not throughout Latin America. Throughout the 90’s he would release solo music and appear on several of DJ Playero’s other mixtapes, which would later be regarded as the first reggaeton songs produced. He first appeared on DJ Playero’s 1991 mixtape entitled Playero 34 with the song “So’ Persigueme, No Te Detengas”. He is known as the “King of Reggaeton”, and is crediting with coining the term ‘reggaeton’ to describe the musical genre emerging from Puerto Rico in the mid 90’s. Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez, who performs as Daddy Yankee, is a singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and record producer from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. It was the first reggaeton song to be nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year, and Billboard listed it as number nine on the “50 Greatest Latin Songs of All Time” list and number eight on the “12 Best Dancehall & Reggaeton Choruses of the 21st Century” list. “Gasolina” reached number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was so popular in the US that it let to the creation of the Latin Rhythm Airplay chart. ![]() ![]() It became an international hit, and is regarded as having triggered the worldwide explosion of reggaeton and urban Latin music. It features Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Glory, who sings the line “dame más gasolina”. “Gasolina” is a reggaeton song that was the lead single off of Daddy Yankee’s 2004 album Barrio Fino. If you prefer to watch the album version without the video, it can be found here. The official video (embedded above) has an additional minute after the song ends. Both Barrio Fino and “Gasolina” have had a huge impact on Latin music. I’m getting this up a little later than I would have liked, but in acknowledgement of this anniversary I figured I’d analyse “Gasolina”, the first single off of the album. On Monday of this week (July 13) Daddy Yankee’s album Barrio Fino turned 16.
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