Rauw Alejandro scores big this week as “Carita Linda” climbs 6-1 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart (dated July 19), marking his 12th champ overall and third as a soloist.

“Carita Linda” rallies 6-1 on Latin Airplay with the Greatest Gainer honors, given weekly to the song with the largest gain in audience impressions among the ranking’s 50 songs. The single takes the lead after a 28% gain in audience impressions, to 8.7 million, earned in the United States during the July 4-10 tracking week, according to Luminate. The audience growth ejects J Balvin’s “Rio” from the top, which drops to No. 3 after one week in charge, through a 4% decline (to 7.7 million impressions).

Released April 10 on Duars/Sony Music Latin, “Carita Linda” arrived as a standalone single following the release of Rauw Alejandro’s fifth studio album, Cosa Nuestra, which gave the Puerto Rican a second No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums chart in November 2024. The song premiered during the opening night of his Cosa Nuestra Tour in Seattle, on April 5.

Rauw clinches his 12th career No. 1 on the Latin Airplay chart in just five years since his first chart-topping hit, “TBT,” with Sebastián Yatra and Manuel Turizo (July 2020). With the latest achievement, Rauw surpasses Daddy Yankee as the male artist with the fifth-most No. 1 hits in the 2020s. Plus, Rauw joins an elite group of male artists with the highest sum of No. 1s this decade. Here is the group of winners:

21, Bad Bunny
20, J Balvin
18, Ozuna
14, Myke Towers
12, Rauw Alejandro
11, Daddy Yankee

“Carita Linda” also rebounds to its No. 1 peak on the Latin Pop Airplay chart, for its fifth week atop.

Fuerza Regida Claims First Solo No. 1: Elsewhere on the Latin charts, Fuerza Regida secures its first No. 1 without a collaborator —among six career champs, all within a two-year span— on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart with “Por Esos Ojos.” The song breaks new ground with 7.3 million audience impressions, up 14%, earned during the tracking week ending July 10.

“Por Esos Ojos” joins two other Fuerza Regida songs which have ruled for one week in 2025: “Tu Boda,” with Oscar Maydon (February) and “Me Jalo,” with Grupo Frontera (April).

The new single was released on Feb. 11 as the lead single of Regida’s ninth studio album, 111XPANTIA, the group’s second champ on Top Latin Albums which holds strong atop the Regional Mexican Albums chart for a 10^th consecutive week.

All charts (dated July 19, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, July 15. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Pusha T isn’t a fan of Drake latest single “What Did I Miss?“

While he and his brother Malice sat down with Complex News recently, the Virginia rapper was asked directly if he liked the Toronto rapper’s new song and simply replied, “No.” When asked what he didn’t like about the track, he responded by saying, “Just not for me.”

The two have been subbing and dissing each other dating back to around 2011, with things coming to a head with Drake dropping “Duppy Freestyle” and Push answering with the scathing “Story of Adidon.” However, don’t expect Push to throw any more shots.

In an interview with GQ last month, he told the outlet that there’s really nothing more to be said. “I think after everything that had been done, I don’t think there was ever anything subliminal to be said ever again in life,” he said. “Not only just musically, like bro, I actually was in Canada. I actually had a show and made it home. So, I can’t pay attention to none of that. I did the dance for real, not to come back and tiptoe around anything.”

He also spoke on Drake’s lawsuit, which may or may not have affected the new Clipse album directly in regards to Kendrick Lamar‘s verse on “Chains & Whips.”

“They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,” he said of Def Jam’s parent company UMG. Adding that Drake’s ongoing lawsuit against his label “kind of cheapens the art of it once we gotta have real questions about suing and litigation.”

Drake had some choice words for Alex Warren after the latter artist’s six-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Ordinary” blocked the former’s “What Did I Miss?” from the top spot.

“Suppressor on the 1 spot,” Drizzy wrote on his Instagram Story Monday (July 14) while sharing a graphic of the all-genre songs chart dated July 19. “I’m taking that soon don’t worry one song or another. Rule changes and all.”

The No. 2 debut of “What Did I Miss?” still gives the 6 God a record-extending 81 Hot 100 top 10 hits, the most in the chart’s nearly 67-year history. It landed at No. 1 on Streaming Songs (Drake’s record-extending 21st chart-topper), Digital Song Sales (his 15th chart-topper, the most among male artists), Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs, Drake’s record-padding 31st leader on both tallies.

Drake released “What Did I Miss?” just days before his three-day headlining stint at 2025 Wireless Festival, where he hosted an R&B-themed night featuring special guest performances from his OVO labelmate PartyNextDoor, Ms. Lauyrn Hill, Giveon, Bryson Tiller and more; a UK rap-themed night with Skepta, Headie One, Central Cee, Dave and more; and an Afrobeats-and-dancehall-themed night starring Vybz Kartel, Burna Boy, Spice, Rema and more. The Toronto MC teased a new single with his On the Radar freestyle collaborator Cench on the third and final night of the festival that’s set to drop this Friday, July 18.

Billboard reached out to Drake’s reps for clarification on what “rule changes” he was referring to in his post but did not get an immediate response.

Rap’s professor emeritus Rakim responded to Kendrick Lamar name-dropping him on his “Chains & Whips” guest verse from the Clipse‘s new album Let God Sort Em Out.

In the verse, Lamar suggested he might consider splitting his riches with the rapper thanks to his influence over the modern rap scene. “The things I’ve seen under my eyelids/ Kaleidoscope dreams, murder, and sirens,” Lamar rapped. “Let’s be clear, hip-hop died again/ Half of my profits may go to Rakim.”

Rakim took to his Instagram over the weekend to post a video of Lamar driving his Porsche with his verse playing and expressed his appreciation for the acknowledgement. “I salute you king,” he wrote. “Thanks for the illest shout I heard in a long time, and keep up the incredible work my brother, you ain’t no joke!!!! Peace and blessings to you and yours.”

This isn’t the first time the rap legend saluted Kendrick. During an interview with Billboard last year, he was asked about Lamar’s battle with Drake and showed love to both of them for stepping into the ring and keeping it hip-hop. “You know, a lot of people in that position won’t accept no challenge, because they got too much to lose,” he said. “So, it was dope that these brothers put the mainstream success down and said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’”

Rakim continued, adding that the battle helped define the difference between “real hip-hop” and more modern, popular versions of the artform. “Younger artists now know that there’s a difference. A lot of them didn’t even understand that,” he said. “They just listened to the majority, not knowing that a lot of people don’t categorize what they were hearing as real hip-hop. The battle was very needed for the genre. I tip my hat to them brothers. Let’s just hope that it stays to the music.”

In related Drake and Kendrick news, the former just finished headlining London’s Wireless festival for three days, while the latter is in the midst of the European leg of his Grand National Tour with SZA.