It’s Sebastian Yatra’s week. Dharma, his third studio album, debuts at No. 2 on Billboard’s Latin Pop Albums chart (dated Feb. 12) — his third album to reach the top two.
Plus, on Feb. 8, it was announced that the Encanto track “Dos Oruguitas,” which Yatra performs, received an Academy Award nomination for best original song for its songwriter, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Yatra, who first made a splash on Latin Pop Albums with the two-week leader Mantra, his album debut, in 2018, is back on the chart as Dharma opens in the runner-up slot with a little more than 4,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 3, according to MRC Data.
The 17-track set, released Jan. 28, is the third effort via his label Universal Music Latino/UMLE and arrives almost three years after his second and last No. 1: Fantasía (April 2019). Dharma, which gifts the Colombian his third straight top 10, is an amalgam of genres, from his usual Latin pop to vallenato, reggaetón and even a pop-punk tune and the bilingual “Runaway.” (The album does not include “Dos Oruguitas”; it is on the Encanto soundtrack album.)
The Latin Pop Albums chart ranks the most popular Latin pop albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by MRC Data. 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.
Unlike Dharma’s predecessors, that debuted with a combined number of streams and album sales, streaming activity makes up nearly all of Dharma’s debut totals, with almost 4,000 units deriving from streaming-equivalent albums (SEA) units, a sum amounting to 5.6 million on-demand streams on the project’s tracks. The remaining 500 units come from album sales and track-equivalent album (TEA) units.
Dharma’s entrance on Billboard’s charts also adds a third career entry for Yatra on the all-genre Top Latin Albums chart, as the set bows at No. 13.
The set has yielded five hits on the all-metric Hot Latin Songs chart (a blend of streams, airplay and digital sales). Let’s take a look:
Title, Artist (if other than Yatra), Peak Position, Peak Date,
“Runaway,” with Daddy Yankee, Jonas Brothers & Natti Natasha, No. 12, July 6, 2019
“TBT,” with Rauw Alejandro & Manuel Turizo, No. 16, June 27, 2020
“Chica Ideal,” with Guaynaa, No. 13, Feb. 20, 2021
“Pareja del Año,” with Myke Towers, No. 10, May 22, 2021
“Tacones Rojos,” No. 18, Feb. 12, 2022
In addition, Yatra’s “Dos Oruguitas,” from Disney’s Encanto soundtrack, holds at its No. 2 high on Hot Latin Songs and continues in the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, his first and only entry on the latter.
