daddy yankee

Gotta love these old threads. Come back Beatriz.

I must admit to liking the three most recent Daddy Yankee singles even if he is incorporating some straightforward Ibiza meets Anglo pop friendly club beats that I'd normally dislike, and shamelessly jumping on trends. There's just enough of a Caribbean rhythmic aspect to make 'em work for me. “Lovumbo” fairly recently topped he Latin Songs chart, and “Pasarela” is on the charts now. On “Ven Conmigo,” Yankee has bachata crooner Prince Royce guesting.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, August 7, 2012 6:10 PM (3 days ago)

Man, "Shaky Shaky" is omnipresent, huh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKuivabiOns

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7556771/daddy-yankee-shaky-shaky-number-1-hot-latin-songs-chart

The original song’s music video has amassed over 357 million global views on YouTube, becoming his third-highest-viewed video on the platform (behind “Sigueme y Te Sigo,” with 376 million and “Limbo,” with 607 million). “With the video,” he says, “we incorporated the element of dance, and a lot of the success had to do with that. It’s the root of the reggaeton movement, and it hasn’t been done in a while.”

The new version -- which is combined with the original version of the song for charting and tracking purposes -- causes a 20 percent jump in streams (to 2.8 million U.S. clicks in the week ending Oct. 20, according to Nielsen Music), thrusting the track 2-1 on the Latin Streaming Songs chart, where he scores his first No. 1. A lyric video released Oct. 14 has collected nearly 7 million views so far. A 46 percent lift in digital sales (to over 3,000 downloads, according to Nielsen Music) also supports the song’s rise to the top of the chart. Of those sales, 56 percent stem from the new version.